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                    [Title] => DOJ orders release of 18 suspects in Jehovah's Witnesses kidnapping
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The Department of Justice has ordered the release of 18 people, who were arrested for the Abu Sayyaf Group's kidnapping of six members of the Jehovah's Witnesses Church in Patikul, Sulu on August 2002.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-07 16:46:06 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 523014 [Title] => GMA appoints Gonzales as defense chief [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - President Arroyo has appointed her National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales as defense secretary, replacing Gilberto Teodoro Jr. who has resigned to run in the presidential race next year, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced on Saturday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-14 20:00:28 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 428985 [Title] => The Pink Panther [Summary] =>

With more than a year to go before the 2010 elections, politics is obviously heating up early with the “clash of colors” between several party list representatives and Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani “BF” Fernando.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135879 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 82894 [Title] => Manhunt launched for other suspects in SuperFerry 14 bombing [Summary] =>

Police have started hunting other suspects in the SuperFerry 14 bombing on Feb. 27, 2004, following the arrest and deportation from Bahrain of the prime suspect in the attack that left 116 people dead and several others wounded.

[DatePublished] => 2008-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 15418 [Title] => Anti-terror exec wants HSA amended [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 76 [Title] => Memorial held for Campbell [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-05-30 08:16:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 396762 [Title] => RP to review anti-terror agreements with other countries [Summary] => The Philippines will review and move to upgrade its counter-terrorism agreements and arrangements with other countries in line with the newly enacted anti-terror law to be implemented in July.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, chairman of Malacañang’s Anti-Terrorism Task Force (ATTF), said various government agencies are jointly drafting the implementing rules and regulation (IRR) that should be finalized two weeks before the Republic Act 9372, or the Human Security Act of 2007, takes effect.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 395849 [Title] => Sayyaf getting fewer support, more condemnation from communities [Summary] => The Abu Sayyaf is getting less support and more condemnation from communities and religious leaders in Sulu following the mass beheadings of their captives last week, security officials asserted yesterday.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, as chairman of the Anti-Terrorism Task Force, and National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said in separate interviews that the Abu Sayyaf are apparently trying to show they are a force to reckon with when they beheaded all their seven hostages and sent the severed heads to military camps in Sulu.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 394422 [Title] => Mindanao-wide alert up to prevent terror attacks [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Troops and police in the whole of Mindanao have been placed on the highest alert to prevent the Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the New People’s Army (NPA) from wreaking havoc during the period before the May 14 elections.

However, security officials allayed fears of any impending terror attack in the Zamboanga Peninsula, where the military’s western Mindanao headquarters is based.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 394231 [Title] => Five Mindanao regions placed under high terror alert from JI threats [Summary] => The Anti-Terrorism Task Force (ATTF) has placed the five regions in Mindanao on high alert due to continued threats from al-Qaeda linked groups Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the Abu Sayyaf.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Calderon said ATTF officials were put on Level 3 or "high threat alert" the five regions, Western Mindanao (Region IX), Northern Mindanao (Region X), Southern Mindanao (Region XI), Central Mindanao (Region XII) and the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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