Jolo trader abducted a second time
By Julie Alipala
Unbelievably, a 52-year-old Jolo businessman has again been abducted by suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists
Unbelievably, a 52-year-old Jolo businessman has again been abducted by suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists
Two Marine soldiers were hurt in a clash with suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits in Talipao town in Sulu on Saturday morning.
Police said the Abu Sayyaf has released a Filipino hostage but there is no word on the fate of six foreign captives.
Kidnappers have released the two Filipino crew members of Jordanian journalist Baker Atyani, just as reports surfaced that members of the Moro National Liberation Front have clashed with Abu Sayyaf in its bid to pressure the bandit group into releasing more of their captives.
After going head to head with the Aquino administration over the reproductive health measure, the country’s Catholic bishops are taking issue with the government on another one of their obsessions.
The Abu Sayyaf may have played a role in Saturday’s kidnapping of engineer Carlos Tee of Jolo, Sulu, authorities said Sunday.
Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants abducted a businessman in the southern Philippines in the latest kidnapping by the group, police said.
Unidentified gunmen on Saturday evening snatched an employee of the Air Transport Office in Jolo, Sulu, police and military reports said.
Government troops battled Muslim extremists on a remote southern island on Friday where a day earlier three of Southeast Asia’s top terror suspects were killed in a US-backed air strike, the army said.
Abu Sayyaf gunmen on Thursday set free a Filipino-Chinese businessman they kidnapped in Sulu in April, authorities confirmed on Friday.
As authorities struggled in recovering naturalized American Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann and her son, Kevin from their captors, armed men struck anew—this time in Jolo—and abducted two persons.
As authorities were still trying to recover naturalized American Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann and her son from their suspected abductors, armed men struck in Jolo on Wednesday evening and kidnapped a couple, the police said Thursday.
An Indian man was kidnapped while visiting a southern Philippine island known to be a hotbed of Muslim extremist militants, police said Thursday.
