Abu Sayyaf Militants

Source: www.moreover.com --- 25 days ago
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) - Three Filipina aid workers have been released by Islamic Militants who abducted them in the southern Philippines, a senior military official said Tuesday. Two other aid workers remain in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf group on ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 56 days ago
Manila - Two marines were fatally shot Saturday by Islamic Militants after their motorcycle broke down on a southern Philippine island, a navy spokesman said. The victims were attacked by al-Qaeda-linked Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels in Panamao town on Jo... ...

Source: www.gmanews.tv --- 40 days ago
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - The Philippine military launched a "calibrated" offensive against Abu Sayyaf Militants following an attack that killed four Marines and wounded 10 more on the southern island of Sulu, officials said. ...

Source: www.mysinchew.com --- 94 days ago
Paying ransom to radical Islamic groups such as the Abu Sayyaf, which survives largely due to funds from kidnappings and other acts of banditry, should be declared a crime to cut off a key terrorist lifeline, a police official said Tuesday (8 July). read more ...

Source: www.sunstar.com.ph --- 100 days ago
THE Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) recently raided and uprooted millions of pesos worth of marijuana plants allegedly cultivated by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Militants and Abu Sayyaf bandits in the hinterlands of Sulu. Third Marine Brigade Chief Eugenio Clemen said the marine troops stumbled on the 1.5-hectare marijuana plantation while combing the hinterlands of Sulu looking for JI and Abu Sayyaf bandits. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo ...

Source: www.nationalterroralert.com --- 80 days ago
The Philippine military on Tuesday paraded two young Abu Sayyaf Militants arrested in the southern island of Sulu, officials said. The Militants, whose age is between 14-18, were arrested at a government checkpoint in Patikul town on July 18. One of them, Nadzmir Amirul, admitted his group is planning to bomb civilian targets in the south, [...] ...

Source: deboxjob.clickblog.com.br --- 89 days ago
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Source: www.topix.com --- 94 days ago
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Paying ransom to radical Islamic groups such as the Abu Sayyaf, which survives largely due to funds from kidnappings and other acts of banditry, should be declared a crime to cut off a key terrorist lifeline, a police official said Tuesday. The government should also proscribe the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf and similar groups as terrorist organizations under the country's anti-terrorism law to make any financial support to them a criminal act, police Chief Superintendent Rodolfo Mendoza said. Between 1992 and last year, Abu Sayyaf collected an estimated US$31 million (1.4 billion pesos) from ransom payments and an unspecified amount from extortion, said Mendoza, a prominent officer who has made extensive studies on al-Qaida-linked Militants in the Philippines. ...

Source: zamboangajournal.blogspot.com --- 23 days ago
ZAMBOANGA 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 release. Militants are holding Esperancita Hupida and Millet Mendoza after they were kidnapped Monday on a village in Tipo-Tipo town. Five other aid workers from the Christian Children’s Fund had either escaped or freed by the Abu Sayyaf, authorities said. Hupida is the program director of the Nagdilaab Foundation, while Mendoza was a former staff worker at the Office of Presidential Adviser to the Peace Process (OPAPP). Basilan Deputy Governor Alrasheed Sakalahul, head of the local crisis management committee, and Father Angel Calvo, of the Peace Advocates Zamboanga, are helping to secure the safe release of the hostages. But there have been no reports about the fate of two aid workers. “We have temporarily stopped the (rescue) operations to give way to peaceful negotiations for the release of the victims,” said Marine commander, Colonel Domingo Valdez. Different humanitarian and solidarity groups have condemned the kidnappings. “Mesdames Hupida and Mendoza are compassionate and morally courageous persons who have braved, as we know they continue to brave, the dangers of working in conflicted, violence-prone areas, particularly Basilan.” “They deserve to be treated with the same compassion and ...

Source: zamboangajournal.blogspot.com --- 48 days ago
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 23, 2008) – A fragmentation grenade exploded late Saturday inside the port of Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, but police said there were no reports of casualties. The grenade was hurled inside the compound of the Bureau of Customs, said Senior Superintendent Lurimer Detran, the chief of the local police force. “No one was hurt in the blast,” he said. Police said an MK2 grenade was used in the attack. No individual or group claimed responsibility for the blast, but it was fourth grenade attack in a span of two weeks in Zamboanga City. Nine people were wounded in an MK2 grenade attack outside the Marcian Business Hotel in downtown Zamboanga on August 20. A grenade was hurled inside the Cinema 5 at Mindpro Mall here on August 15, but it failed to explode. An MK2 grenade was also used in the August 12 attack at the central police headquarters here, although no one was hurt or killed in the blast. In June, four policemen were injured in a grenade attack at their base in the town of Kabasalan in Zamboanga Sibugay province, about 120 kilometers from Zamboanga City. Zamboanga City has been previously attacked by Abu Sayyaf Militants tied to al-Qaeda. It was not immediately known if the group was connected to the latest attack, but a bombing in May blamed to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front killed three people and injured more than a dozen others outside a military base here. ...

Source: zamboangajournal.blogspot.com --- 96 days ago
SULU, 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 a budget hotel inside a police base in Jolo town and freed him two days later. The man, the son of a village chieftain Norma Ahmad of Talipao town, accused soldiers of torturing him into admitting that he was an Abu Sayyaf militant. Police said Ahmad’s family would file criminal charges against the soldiers involved in the illegal arrest. The Commission on Human Rights said it will investigate the report. Human rights groups in the past have accused the military of violating the rights of civilians, especially during operations in Sulu province. They claimed human rights abuses are rampant in the province. Early this year, navy and army soldiers also killed seven civilians and an off-duty infantryman in a raid on an alleged Abu Sayyaf hideout in the village of Ipil in Maimbung town. Several soldiers were also killed and wounded in an ensuing gun battle with armed villagers and human rights investigators said there was no Abu Sayyaf Militants in Ipil and that the raiders pillaged houses of civilians. The military denied all the allegations of human rights violations and blamed leftist organizations for the false reports. (Mindanao Examiner) ...

Source: zamboangajournal.blogspot.com --- 71 days ago
BASILAN, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 29, 2008) – Police and soldiers foiled an Abu Sayyaf raid Tuesday on a small town in the southern Philippine island of Basilan, where security forces are battling Militants tied to Jemaah Islamiya. Security forces briefly battled some 100 Abu Sayyaf gunmen, backed by Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels near Tipo-Tipo town. The gunmen retreated after more soldiers arrived in the town to reinforce a small police team holding back the Militants. “There were no reports of casualties, but the Abu Sayyaf and MILF rebels tried to enter the town,” Senior Superintendent Salik Macapantar, the island’s police chief, told the Mindanao Examiner. He said he deployed more policemen to Tipo-Tipo to beef up security forces in the town. Policemen last week also seized a motorcycle allegedly owned by the Abu Sayyaf at a checkpoint in Tipo-Tipo town, but it was not immediately known if it was connected to the foiled raid. Police tagged Nurhassan Jamiri, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf and Commander Long, of the MILF, as behind the failed attack. The two had been previously linked to kidnapping and attacks on soldiers in Basilan island, a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group. The MILF has previously denied involvements in past attacks and pointed to the Abu Sayyaf as behind the spate of terrorism on the island, several nautical miles south of Zamboanga City. Last year, Abu Sayyaf and MILF rebels killed and dec ...

Source: carlosconde.com --- 76 days ago
By Carlos H. Conde International Herald Tribune The New York Times Published: June 18, 2008 MANILA: Abu Sayyaf Militants have released members of a news team they abducted in the southern Philippines last week, among them one of the country’s best-known television journalists, officials said Wednesday. The police said no ransom had been paid for the release Tuesday night of [...] ...