TRIVIA 0018: WHO IS AL HAJJ MURAD EBRAHIM?

 

FROM THE WEBSITE OF GLOBAL JIHAD

 

 

 

 

Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim

 

 

Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim was born in 1950 in the Southern Philippines.

 

Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim was one semester short of completing his civil engineering degree at the Notre DameUniversityin CotabatoCity, at age 22, when he joined Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in 1972. Then, in 1981, Al-Hajj Murad moved to the more militant Moro Islamic Liberation Front – MILF.

 

Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim became with time vice chair for military affairs of the MILF under Hashim Salamat, head of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces and MILF peace panel chair from early 2001.

 

Al-Hajj Murad took over the leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front –  MILF, after the death of his predecessor Hashim Salamat died from died from heart attack, on 07/13/2003. Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim suspended its guerilla and terror activity in order to give way for political negotiation. 

 

In early June 2005, Al-Hajj Murad moved from the shade of the underground life to the public open life when he joined open negotiation with the Filipino regime in Sultan Kudarat, inSouthern Mindanao.

 

Today (03/2009) Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim is still negotiating peace on base of a large autonomy to the Muslims in Southern Philippines  with the Philippinesgovernment. Segments of MILF are still clashing, from time to time, with the Filipino army (see – MI.LF warning) but generally, the situation in theSouthernPhilippines is much more calm and stable then in the 90s’. Many recognize Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim as the real boss ofMindanao.