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Luck and Diligence Bring Arrest Of an Elusive Philippine Militant

They had been tracking him for years, and finally, Philippine military and police intelligence officers had a good bead on Mokhlis Yunos, one of the most wanted militants in the country. They had learned that he might be flying to Manila on the morning of May 25. They expected that he would catch a flight from Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines and were waiting for him, police officials said. But they didn’t expect that he would be swathed head to toe in bandages and plaster casts. And they certainly didn’t expect that a Philippine Airlines supervisor, a stickler for rules, would almost prevent him from making the trip. Full Story