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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Filipino militant's killing cripples Abu Sayyaf By HRVOJE HRANJSKI,Associated Press Writer - 2 hours 7 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Filipino soldiers place an identification tag on the body of suspected Abu Sayyaf leader Albader Parad after he and five others were killed in an encounter in the jungles of Jolo in southern Philippines Sunday Feb. 21, 2010. Parad, top commander of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf, is accused of the abduction of three International Red Cross workers on Jolo early last year. (AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan) MANILA, Philippines – A young, brash militant who gained notoriety after posing for cameras with three Red Cross hostages became the latest casualty of U.S.-backed Philippine military assaults that have slowly eliminated the country's most wanted terrorist suspects. Albader Parad is best remembered as head of a faction of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group who demanded a ransom last year for the release of the Red Cross workers _ a Swiss, an Italian and a Filipino. All three were freed after months in jungle captivity despite threats to behead them. A special operations platoon on Sunday crawled within 30 yards (meters) of a forest hut on southern Jolo Island and opened fire after receiving intelligence that Parad and senior leader Umbra Jumdail were meeting, military officials said. At the end of the hourlong gunfight, Parad and five other militants, including Jumdail's brother, lay dead. Parad's body was later identified by four civilians, said regional military commander Lt. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino. A marine also was killed. "This will be a big blow to the Abu Sayyaf," Dolorfino said Monday. "He was the most visible among the leaders. The fear of the people for the Abu Sayyaf is represented by the face of Albader, which always comes out in newspapers." The Abu Sayyaf is blamed for the country's worst bomb attacks, kidnapping sprees and for beheading some of its hostages during the last two decades. The Abu Sayyaf, which means "Father of the Swordsman" in Arabic, was founded in 1991 in Basilan province with suspected funds from Asian and Middle Eastern radical groups, including al-Qaida. It came to the U.S. attention in 2001, when it kidnapped three Americans, two of whom were later killed, and dozens of Filipinos. The violence prompted Washington to deploy hundreds of troops to train Philippine forces and share intelligence, driving military operations that have neutralized the most prominent leaders one by one. Out of the 24 original leaders and militants, about half a dozen remain at large. The rest are dead or in jail. Abu Sayyaf's oldest, ailing commander, one-armed Radulan Sahiron, has not been seen since a 2008 clash. Only two other influential leaders remain _ Jumdail, an ideologue also known as Dr. Abu Pula, and Isnilon Hapilon, who carries a U.S. reward of $5 million for his capture. However, Hapilon might have suffered a stroke, Dolorfino said. "There are no young leaders emerging," he said. Parad, who appeared to be in his 20s, began as an errand boy in militant jungle camps and in 2000 took part in a mass kidnapping from the Sipadan resort in nearby Malaysia that netted 10 Europeans and 11 other people, according to a military dossier. He was described as coming from a poor family where most relatives had links to the Abu Sayyaf. He had reportedly amassed more than $400,000 from a string of earlier abductions, some of which was invested by relatives in passenger transport and coconut farmlands. Philippine National Red Cross Chairman Richard Gordon, who talked to Parad by phone until he persuaded him to release the Red Cross hostages, blamed poverty and lack of government support and job opportunities for driving people like Parad to join militants. "He said that all he wanted was for the troops to withdraw, and he never harmed the hostages," Gordon said. "Obviously, people who live like that will hold the knife by the blade, not by the heel." The U.S. government had offered a $1 million reward to civilian informants helping in Parad's capture or killing, Dolorfino said. ___ Associated Press writers Teresa Cerojano and Oliver Teves contributed to this report. 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