KUALALUMPUR: For two years, authorities believed they had neutralised one of the most feared terror operatives the world had ever seen. He was a master tactician, a skilled bombmaker and an exporter of terror.
Intelligence agencies had mistakenly believed that he had been killed in a surgical airstrike. Now, Marwan has risen from the ashes and is strongly linked to the training of jihadists and militants.
Ominously, this man with many assumed names and aliases is firmly taking control of foreign-based militant groups, including Abu Sayyaf.
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