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| Southeast Asia |
| Still hunting for kidnapped Avon ladies... |
| 2002-09-11 |
| The leader of the Abu Sayyaf rebels who kidnapped four Jehovah’s Witnesses on Aug. 21 has been killed in a gun battle with government troops, the Armed Forces Southern Command confirmed yesterday. Southcom chief Lt. Gen. Ernesto Carolina said Abdulmuin Sahiron, nephew of the one-armed bandit leader Radulan Sahiron, was killed in an encounter at the border of Patikul and Talipao towns in Sulu last Friday. Tough, ain't it? Rigor mortis has been going around lately... Carolina said Abdulmu-in’s death was confirmed by Patikul Mayor Hasser Hayu-dini and a barangay chairman who ascertained Sahiron’s death through his mother. But Carolina said Abdulmuin turned over his hostages - Norie Bendijo, Cleofe and her sister-in-law Flora Montulo and Emely Mantic - to his uncle Radulan who is now fleeing an intense manhunt, which the military has dubbed "Operation Endgame." It's kind of hard on the Avon ladies, but Abu Sayyaf doesn't have too much "top leadership" left... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |