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Southeast Asia
Philippines arrests suspect in 2001 US kidnaps
2012-05-28
[Straits Times] Philippine police have locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
an alleged Islamist thug suspected of involvement in a 2001 kidnapping that left two Americans dead, an official said on Friday.

Sahibul Sailani was jugged
You have the right to remain silent...
in the southern island of Basilan on Monday but police withheld the news until his interrogation was completed, said the provincial police chief, Senior Superintendent Alex Linesis.

Sailani is accused of taking part in the abduction of three Americans and several Filipinos from an upscale western Philippine resort in 2001, Mr Linesis said.

The hostages were taken by boat to Basilan where the gunnies later beheaded one of the Americans, Peru-born Guillermo Sobero
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