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[Title] => Rains stall search for Sayyaf rebels
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Torrential rains slowed down yesterday government troopers hot on the trail of the Abu Sayyaf still holding 18 captives, following the successful rescue of three Filipino hostages, officials said.
The stormy weather forced Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes to postpone a trip to Basilan, where some 5,000 soldiers have been scouring its vast central jungles for nearly three months.
He instead sought a briefing with military commanders at the Armed Forces Southern Command here.
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[Title] => Arroyo to Powell: Look who’s talking
[Summary] => Look before you talk.
President Arroyo brought up the1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst yesterday to hit back at the United States over its impatience with the Abu Sayyaf’s kidnapping of three Americans, saying it took US authorities one year and five months to rescue the newspaper heiress from her abductors.
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[Title] => Jail execs uncover escape plan for Sayyaf’s Janjalani
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA City – Jail authorities here uncovered a plan by an Abu Sayyaf leader to bolt his detention cell with the aid of at least 30 comrades.
But the prisoner, Hector Janjalani, denied the report, claiming it was fabricated to force his return to Manila where he was arrested while trying to peddle video clips showing American hostage Jeffrey Schilling who has since been rescued by government troops.
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[Title] => Zamboanga court defers Janjalani arraignment
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — A regional trial court here reset to Aug. 22 the arraignment of Abu Sayyaf leader Hector Janjalani and 43 other suspected Abu Sayyaf members and supporters.
RTC Branch 16 Judge Jesus Carbon also remanded the cases of 27 of the 43 to the city prosecutor after the court found that they had no lawyers and had not undergone preliminary investigation.
Carbon ordered the local Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) chapter, through lawyer Asbi Edding, to provide lawyers for the accused.
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[Title] => Weapons for Abus? Misuari’s Zamboanga compound raided
[Summary] => Police raided yesterday a compound in Zamboanga City owned by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chairman Nur Misuari in search of a suspected arms supplier of Abu Sayyaf terrorists.
Neither Misuari nor the suspect, identified as Assa Asmawil, was around when the raiders arrived, but a search of the compound yielded three boxes of bullets and grenades.
Misuari was reportedly in Jolo, Sulu during the raid, but his wife, Tarhata Ibrahim, was at home.
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[Title] => AFP eyes wider Mindanao crackdown
[Summary] => They can run but they cannot hide.
The ongoing military crackdown in Basilan and three other known havens of Abu Sayyaf terrorists and their supporters in Minda-nao may yet be broadened to cover other areas where members of the extremist group might have fled.
"An expanded crackdown could possibly take place, but it should be upon the initiative of the local political leaders and not the military," Armed Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Edilberto Adan said.
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[Title] => 2 more Sayyaf members arrested in Zambo
[Summary] => Authorities in Zamboanga arrested yesterday two suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits who were supposed to be buying weapons and ammunition for their beleaguered comrades on Basilan island.
While police refused to identify the two suspected bandits, Senior Superintendent Damming Ungga said the two were based in Basilan and were likely members of the bandit group that was being pursued by government forces on the island.
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[Title] => Janjalani aide captured
[Summary] => A suspected Abu Sayyaf member was reportedly arrested yesterday in a raid on the rebel lair close to a major military headquarters in Zamboanga City.
This developed as President Arroyo, in a bid to allay fears of investors, reiterated her vow to crush the Abu Sayyaf extremist group that has been engaged in mass abductions for ransom.
Zamboanga City police director Superintendent Mario Yanga identified the arrested suspect as Karim Hassan, alias Karim Kiram Taraji, a bodyguard of Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani.
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[Title] => Zamboanga mediamen denounce Abu Sayyaf
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ZAMBOANGA CITY - Two media groups here denounced the Abu Sayyaf for threatening
journalists critical of the Muslim fundamentalist group.
In a joint statement, the Zamboanga Press Club, led by Bernard Concepcion, and
the city chapter of the Union of Journalists of the Philippines, led by Rey
Luis Banagudos, said "freedom of speech, including its exercise through the
mass media, is a fundamental right of every citizen in a democratic society..."
Mediamen, they added, "have a duty to report to the public whatever information
they have in the higher interest of the people."
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[Title] => Rains stall search for Sayyaf rebels
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The stormy weather forced Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes to postpone a trip to Basilan, where some 5,000 soldiers have been scouring its vast central jungles for nearly three months.
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President Arroyo brought up the1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst yesterday to hit back at the United States over its impatience with the Abu Sayyaf’s kidnapping of three Americans, saying it took US authorities one year and five months to rescue the newspaper heiress from her abductors.
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[Title] => Jail execs uncover escape plan for Sayyaf’s Janjalani
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But the prisoner, Hector Janjalani, denied the report, claiming it was fabricated to force his return to Manila where he was arrested while trying to peddle video clips showing American hostage Jeffrey Schilling who has since been rescued by government troops.
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[Title] => Zamboanga court defers Janjalani arraignment
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — A regional trial court here reset to Aug. 22 the arraignment of Abu Sayyaf leader Hector Janjalani and 43 other suspected Abu Sayyaf members and supporters.
RTC Branch 16 Judge Jesus Carbon also remanded the cases of 27 of the 43 to the city prosecutor after the court found that they had no lawyers and had not undergone preliminary investigation.
Carbon ordered the local Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) chapter, through lawyer Asbi Edding, to provide lawyers for the accused.
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[Title] => Weapons for Abus? Misuari’s Zamboanga compound raided
[Summary] => Police raided yesterday a compound in Zamboanga City owned by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chairman Nur Misuari in search of a suspected arms supplier of Abu Sayyaf terrorists.
Neither Misuari nor the suspect, identified as Assa Asmawil, was around when the raiders arrived, but a search of the compound yielded three boxes of bullets and grenades.
Misuari was reportedly in Jolo, Sulu during the raid, but his wife, Tarhata Ibrahim, was at home.
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[Title] => AFP eyes wider Mindanao crackdown
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The ongoing military crackdown in Basilan and three other known havens of Abu Sayyaf terrorists and their supporters in Minda-nao may yet be broadened to cover other areas where members of the extremist group might have fled.
"An expanded crackdown could possibly take place, but it should be upon the initiative of the local political leaders and not the military," Armed Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Edilberto Adan said.
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While police refused to identify the two suspected bandits, Senior Superintendent Damming Ungga said the two were based in Basilan and were likely members of the bandit group that was being pursued by government forces on the island.
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[Title] => Janjalani aide captured
[Summary] => A suspected Abu Sayyaf member was reportedly arrested yesterday in a raid on the rebel lair close to a major military headquarters in Zamboanga City.
This developed as President Arroyo, in a bid to allay fears of investors, reiterated her vow to crush the Abu Sayyaf extremist group that has been engaged in mass abductions for ransom.
Zamboanga City police director Superintendent Mario Yanga identified the arrested suspect as Karim Hassan, alias Karim Kiram Taraji, a bodyguard of Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY - Two media groups here denounced the Abu Sayyaf for threatening
journalists critical of the Muslim fundamentalist group.
In a joint statement, the Zamboanga Press Club, led by Bernard Concepcion, and
the city chapter of the Union of Journalists of the Philippines, led by Rey
Luis Banagudos, said "freedom of speech, including its exercise through the
mass media, is a fundamental right of every citizen in a democratic society..."
Mediamen, they added, "have a duty to report to the public whatever information
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August 13, 2001 - 12:00am
