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Philippine police say militants abducted Malaysian
[Straits Times] PHILIPPINE police say Al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz are believed to be holding a Malaysian trader who was kidnapped on a restive southern island.Regional police chief Bienvenido Latag Jr. says informants reported that Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... gunnies seized Mohammad Nazarudin bin Saidin on Sunday. Mr Latag said on Friday that Indanan township police on Jolo island are leading the rescue operation. Malaysia's consulate in southern Davao city says no group has grabbed credit and no ransom has been demanded for the 38-year-old businessman who was buying geckos in Indanan. The Abu Sayyaf has been blacklisted by the US as terrorist group involved in bombings, kidnappings and beheadings. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-14 |
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