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Thursday, November 20th, 2008SULU, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 0, 2008) – Government soldiers captured an Abu Sayyaf sub-leader ahead of President Gloria Arroyo’s visit to Sulu province.Col. Eugenio Clemen, commander of the 3rd Marine Brigade, said they are interrogati…
Sayyaf frees remaining aid worker kidnapped in Southern Philippines
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Freed kidnapped aid worker Millet Mendoza with Philippine Navy Captain Jeanne Lingan in Zamboanga City on Saturday, November 15, 2008. ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 15, 2008) – Suspected Abu Sayyaf militants have freed the la…
Abu Sayyaf frees kidnapped Filipino nurse after 4 months in captivity
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Abu Sayyaf militants free kidnapped nurse Preciosa Feliciano, 24. Feliciano arrives Saturday, Nov. 7, 2007 in Zamboanga City where she is reunited with her family. Preciosa was kidnapped July 7, 2008 in Zamboanga City and brought to Basilan Island wh…
Help us, kin of kidnapped victims appeal to President Gloria Arroyo
Friday, November 7th, 2008Families of kidnapped victims in the southern Philippines - couple Manuel and Edna Pilangga, and Ben Feliciano - show photographs of hostages at a news conference in Zamboanga City on Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. They appealed to President Gloria Arroyo to he…
Troops Capture Sayyaf Leader In Southern Philippines
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 5, 2008) – Government soldiers, aided by a former Abu Sayyaf militant, have captured Wednesday a sub-leader of the terrorist group tied to Jemaah Islamiya in the southern Philippines, officials sa…
Sayyafs free one of two kidnapped aid worker in Southern Philippines
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Abu Sayyaf militants freed on Thursday, October 30, 2008, one of two kidnapped aid workers, Esperancita Hupida, in the southern Philippine island of Basilan after 76 days in captivity. Hupida, the program director of the Nagdilaab Foundation, was brou…
Sayyaf Falls In Sulu Island
Sunday, October 12th, 2008A Philippine Marine photo shows arrested Abu Sayyaf militant Marcial Jabarot who was implicated in the kidnapping of a television presenter Ces Drilon in the southern island of Sulu. SULU, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 12, 2008) – Philippin…
Sayyaf Man Slain, 3 Others Captured In Southern Philippines
Saturday, October 11th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 11, 2008) – Police commandos killed an Abu Sayyaf militant and captured three more after a gun battle in the southern Filipino province of Sulu, officials said Saturday.Officials said the fighting…
Sayyaf Man Slain, 3 Others Captured In Southern Philippines
Saturday, October 11th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 11, 2008) – Police commandos killed an Abu Sayyaf militant and captured three more after a gun battle in the southern Filipino province of Sulu, officials said Saturday.Officials said the fighting…
MILF rebels attack Philippine Army patrol base in Mindanao
Thursday, October 9th, 2008COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 9. 2008) – Moro Islamic Liberation Front forces attacked Thursday a Philippine military patrol base, the second in barely two days in Mindanao, officials said.Army Major Armand Rico, a spokesman fo…
Basilan Police Alerted Over Escape Of Sayyaf Terrorist
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 7, 2008) – Police in the southern province of Basilan have been alerted after a captured Abu Sayyaf militant implicated in a deadly attack on Philippine Congress mysteriously escaped from governme…
Row continues over alleged US military bases in South RP
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Manila, Philippines (AKI / Oct. 3, 2008) – The alleged presence of US military bases on the conflict-ridden island of Mindanao is continuing to spark heated debate, with left-wing activists accusing the government of covering up the truth.The Philipp…
US Forces Join Combat Operations In Southern Philippines
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Philippine troops continue the hunt for MILF rebels in Mindnaao. (Mindanao Examiner Photo / Mark Navales) MANILA, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Sept. 28, 2008) – An alliance of militant Filipino teachers opposed to the continued stay of US forc…
Probe US Role In Killing Of Abu Sayyaf Leader, Teachers Group Urged Philippine Senate
Sunday, September 28th, 2008MANILA, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Sept. 28, 2008) - The Alliance of Concerned Teachers asked the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee on the Visiting Forces Agreement (LOCVFA) to investigate the direct involvement of United States troops in th…
Military Halts Rescue Operations For Kidnapped Aid Workers In South RP
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / September 17, 2009) – The Philippine military halted operations to rescue two aid workers being held by the Abu Sayyaf on the island of Basilan to pave way for a peace negotiation for their early relea…
Sayyaf Executioner Captured In Zamboanga City
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / September 16, 2008) – Police in Zamboanga City have captured an alleged Abu Sayyaf militant implicated in the beheading of 14 soldiers in the southern Filipino island of Basilan, reports said on Tuesda…
Philippine Military Tags Sayyafs As Behind Kidnappings Of Four Aid Workers; 2 Hostages Freed
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / September 16, 2008) – Philippine authorities on Tuesday tagged the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group as behind the kidnappings of four aid workers in the restive region of Mindanao. The military said tw…
Philippines Interrogates Arrested Terror Leader
Sunday, August 31st, 2008MANILA, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 31, 2008) – Philippine authorities were interrogating a suspected terror leader blamed for the deadly attack on a ferry off Manila Bay that killed over 100 people in 2004.Authorities are holding Ruben L…
Guam Army National Guard Unhurt In Southern Philippines Attack, 4 Filipino Marines Killed
Sunday, August 31st, 2008A convoy of US and Philippine troops pass on a village in Jolo town in the southern Filipino province of Sulu. Abu Sayyaf militants attacked US and Filipino soldiers in the village of Bonbon in Sulu’s Patikul town on Saturday, August 30, 2008 killing f…
4 Soldiers Killed, 10 Wounded In Rebel Attack In Sulu Province
Saturday, August 30th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 30, 2008) – Four government soldiers were killed and ten more wounded in a clash Saturday with suspected rebels in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, officials said.“Four of our soldier…
2 Killed In Sulu Fighting
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 20, 2008) – A Philippine marine commander and a suspected Abu Sayyaf militant were killed in fighting in the southern island of Sulu, officials said on Wednesday.Militants ambushed Capt. Abduhar…
Sayyaf Militant Captured In Basilan Island
Saturday, August 16th, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 16, 2008) – Police and military agents captured an alleged member of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in the southern Philippine island of Basilan, several nautical miles off Zamboanga City,…
Sayyaf Man Captured In Zamboanga City
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 02, 2008) – Police forces arrested an alleged Abu Sayyaf militant in the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga, which was bombed in the past by the terrorist group tied to Al-Qaeda and Jema…
Soldiers Wounded In Sulu Island Clash
Sunday, July 27th, 2008SULU, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 27, 2008) – At least two government soldiers were reported wounded in a clash Sunday with unidentified gunmen in the southern Philippine island of Pangutaran off Sulu province.The Philippine military did no…
2 Dead, 27 Injured In Bus Bombing In Southern Philippines
Thursday, July 24th, 2008DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 24, 2008) – At least two people were killed and more than two dozen others wounded in Thursday bombing of a commuter bus in the southern Philippines, police and military said.The attack occurred at no…
Philippine Military Parades 2 Arrested Sayyaf Terrorists
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008A photo released by the Philippine military’s Western Mindanao Command shows medical corps members attending to two Abu Sayyaf militants arrested by soldiers in the southern Philippine island of Sulu during a news conference by Lt. Gen. Nelson Allaga…
2 Sayyaf Kidnappers Nabbed In Southern Philippines
Sunday, July 20th, 2008SULU, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 20, 2008) – Two Abu Sayyaf members linked to the kidnapping of a Philippine television presenter and three others had been arrested in the southern province of Sulu, police said.Police said the duo was inte…
Police Deploy More Cops To Deter Crimes In Basilan Island
Sunday, July 20th, 2008BASILAN, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 20, 2008) – Police deployed additional forces in the southern Philippine island of Basilan following the spate of kidnappings blamed to Abu Sayyaf militants.“We have deployed more mobile checkpoints an…
Police Mount Operations To Rescue 2 Kidnapped Basilan Village Officials
Thursday, July 17th, 2008BASILAN, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 17, 2008) – Police have mounted an operation to search and rescue two Filipino village officials seized by gunmen in the southern island of Basilan, officials said.Officials said police commandos were se…
Kidnap: Facing death By Ces Drilon
Sunday, July 13th, 2008KIDNAP: An ABS-CBN Special.(Last of three parts)For the first days, my cell phone, with Smart as the service provider, was used by our captors to contact my family, and for their own use as well. By the third or fourth day, the battery of my cell phone…
Detained Sulu Mayor Could Win Polls In Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao
Saturday, July 12th, 2008BASILAN, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 12, 2008) – A detained Sulu mayor implicated in the kidnapping of a Philippine television news crew may probably win in the August 11 elections in the Muslim autonomous region because of sympathy votes.I…
Ces Drilon: ‘They have a warped sense of Muslim struggle’
Saturday, July 12th, 2008KIDNAP: An ABS-CBN Special.Second of Three PartsOn June 9, the second day of our captivity, I still hoped I could do my work and followed up our interview. I was told not to worry about it and to have coffee and breakfast first. I looked around and saw…
Kidnap: Days of captivity in the depths of Sulu By Ces Drilon
Friday, July 11th, 2008Kidnap: An ABS-CBN Special. First of three partsAs I made my way through the wild fern and thick vegetation in the depths of Sulu, little did I know that I was to cross the line from a reporter chasing a story to becoming the story—and make headl…
RP Troops Accused Of Human Rights Violations Anew
Sunday, July 6th, 2008SULU, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 6, 2008) – Police accused government soldiers of arresting a Muslim man on suspicion he was a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in Sulu province.Soldiers arrested the Lincoln Ahmad last week at…
Former Sayyaf Hostage Ces Drilon Suspended By ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp.
Saturday, July 5th, 2008ABS CBN has suspended news anchor Ces Drilon for disobeying orders not to go to Indanan, Sulu where she and her cameramen Jimmy Encarnacion and Angelo Valderama were kidnapped by an armed group.Ces is suspended for three months as news anchor of late n…
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