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                    [ArticleID] => 726087
                    [Title] => Suspected Abu Sayyaf leader killed in Sulu
                    [Summary] => 

 A suspected leader of terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was killed Sunday in Sulu, police said on Monday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-12 11:05:29 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 233677 [Title] => Nation on a roll in 2004 — Palace [Summary] => Malacañang predicted yesterday that 2004, the year of the monkey in the Lunar calendar, will be good for the country if no anti-government uprising takes place.

"If there will be no (more) destabilization, we will be on a roll in 2004," said Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye. "We ended the year 2003 with a bang."

Bunye said the country’s economy picked up in terms of rapid growth rates in investments and exports during the past year.

"Our stock market hit the highest record as we’ve monitored it," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231718 [Title] => Malaysia to quiz Robot [Summary] => KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia may send a team to the Philippines to question alleged terrorist leader Galib Andang, popularly known as Commander Robot, about the kidnap of foreign tourists from a resort in April 2000, local media said Sunday.

"It is possible that we might either send a team to interrogate him (Andang) or get the information from the Philippines authorities," Defense Minister Najib Razak was quoted as saying by the Bernama news agency.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231050 [Title] => Andang: MILF men behind Zambo blasts [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — City Mayor Maria Clara Lobregat quoted captured Abu Sayyaf leader Galib Andang alias Commander Robot yesterday as saying that renegade members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), not his men, were responsible for the spate of bombings here last year.

Lobregat said she had a chance to talk to the wounded Andang at the emergency hospital in Edwin Andrews Air Base before he was flown to Manila last Monday.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230935 [Title] => ‘Commander Robot a ruthless kidnapper’ [Summary] => Abu Sayyaf kingpin Galib Andang, captured in Sulu late Sunday, is a ruthless leader and chief organizer of abductions for the feared kidnap gang.

Popularly known as Commander Robot, he was the architect of the much-publicized kidnapping of 21 hostages, including Europeans and other foreigners, in the neighboring Malaysian resort of Sipadan in April 2000.

Armed with machine guns, he and other Abu Sayyaf leaders brought the hostages by speed boat to his base in Jolo and held them there for about a year.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231026 [Title] => Kumander Robot pilantod na [Summary] => SIGURO mababawasan ang pangamba ng mga taga-Mindanao kasi nalaglag sa bitag ng 104th Brigade ng Army ang kilabot na si Galib Andang, alyas Kumander Robot, matapos itong ratratin ng mga soldiers sa kanyang lungga.

Sayang at buhay pa ang kamoteng rebelde.

Marami kasi itong pinatay, pinahirapan at ginahasa kaya naman ang mga pamilya na naging biktima ni Robot ay may mga kimkim ng sama ng loob sa gagong ito.

Pustahan tayo dalhin mo si Robot sa Luneta at ipabato sa mga tao siguradong marami ang pupukol ng bato sa kanya.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135127 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096558 [AuthorName] => Butch M. Quejada [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230276 [Title] => 3 Sayyaf men killed in clash [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — At least three Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash with government troops in the jungles of Maimbung, Sulu last Tuesday, the military said.

Soldiers stormed an Abu Sayyaf lair in Barangay Buhe Lahi, triggering a gunbattle with some 20 rebels, Col. Alexander Yapching, Sulu military commander, said.

At least three rebels were killed and an undetermined number of others wounded, officials said.

"The bandits escaped while fighting to (prevent) our troops from closing in," Yapching said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229974 [Title] => Kumander ng Sayyaf nalambat [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY – Nalambat ng tropa ng militar ang isa sa kumander ng Abu Sayyaf sa downtown ng Jolo, Sulu noong Sabado na pinaniniwalaang sangkot sa pagdukot ng mga dayuhan sa Sipadan noong taong 2000.

Sa ulat ni Brig. Gen. Gabriel Habacon, Southern Command vice commander for operation at hepe ng Task Force Comet, nakilala lamang ang nabitag na terorista na si Jeffrey, alyas Kumander Jainul.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220556 [Title] => Sulu governor survives ambush [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Sulu Governor Yusop Jikiri survived an ambush staged by suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a remote village in Jolo island, while one of his police escorts was killed, the military reported yesterday. [DatePublished] => 2003-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220217 [Title] => 2 Sayyaf men fall [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Two Abu Sayyaf men, one of them believed to be involved in the spate of kidnappings in the South, including the Sipadan hostage-taking, were captured in separate raids in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, the military said yesterday.

Col. Alexander Yapching, chief of the Army’s 104th Infantry Brigade, said combined elements of the 35th Infantry Battalion and the local police raided a safehouse in Barangay Samak, Talipao and captured Abubasar Mohamad.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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