Jainal Antel Sali Jr. (June 1, 1964 – January 16, 2007) was a senior leader of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist terrorist organization affiliated with Al Qaeda. Born in Zamboanga City, Mindanao, in Philippines, Sali was also known as The Engineer, and by other aliases; "Abu Solaiman, Abu Solajman, Abu Sulaiman, Abu Sulayman, and Jainal Antal Sali Jr." He spoke Tausug, Tagalog, Arabic, and English. Sali was indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, for his alleged involvement in terrorist acts, including hostage kidnapping and murder, against United States nationals and other foreign nationals in and around the Republic of the Philippines. For that indictment, on February 24, 2006 Jainal Antel Sali Jr. was among six fugitives in the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list along with two fellow members of Abu Sayyaf. The United States government Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State offered a 5 million United States dollar (250,000,000 Philippine pesos) reward for Sali's capture, prior to his death. Background on Zamboanga City birthplace The peninsula is attached to the western edge of the large island of Mindanao, but it is governed separately from that Islamic territory, which is now (since 1996) governed as part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Being on the social or political division line, the neighboring Basilan island has seen some of the fiercest fighting between government troops and the Muslim separatist group Abu Sayyaf through the early 2000s. When Sali was still a pre-teen, in the early 1970s, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was the main Muslim rebel group fighting in the Basilan region of the southern Philippines. Abu Sayyaf Group under Abdurajik Janjalani After the late 1980s Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani returned home to Basilan from the Soviet–Afghan War to establish his own offshoot group in the southern Philippines, out of members of the extant MNLF. By then, as a political solution in the southern Philippines, ARMM had been created, in 1989, when Sali was 25 years old. On Basilan, Abdurajik Janjalani gathered radical members of the old MNLF in 1990, to found the Abu Sayyaf Group. It was named after his own alias, which was Abu Sayyaf. MNLF had moderated into an established political party, which eventually became the ruling party of the ARMM, by its full institutionalization in