^
+ Follow PENTAGON GANG Tag
Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 619470
                    [Title] => Failure to stop kidnaps in ARMM scored
                    [Summary] => 

Senator Francis Escudero scored yesterday the military and police forces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) for its failure to stop another kidnapping incident that left two people killed in Cotabato City on Friday.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 309338 [Title] => MILF spies to help locate Cotabato engineer [Summary] => KORONADAL CITY — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has reportedly deployed some of its "spies" to Maguindanao to help government forces recover the engineer who was abducted by the Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang last week.

Sources from the MILF said the group is still awaiting information from the spies, who were tasked to locate the whereabouts of 66-year-old Engineer Bravick Araral.

The MILF has been working with military forces in flushing out lawless elements in Mindanao for the past several months. 
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 308029 [Title] => Pentagon Gang abducts Cotabato engineer [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Heavily armed men, believed to be the notorious kidnap-for-ransom group of the Pentagon Gang, abducted a wealthy engineer and farm owner in a village in Libungan, North Cotabato.

The military identified the latest kidnap victim of the Pentagon Gang as Engr. Bravit Araral, 69, who was forcibly taken shortly before 8 a.m. Monday in the village of Baguer.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273316 [Title] => 2 kidnappers of Chinoy trader in Cotabato City identified [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Army and police intelligence operatives have identified two of the gunmen who abducted here last Friday Filipino-Chinese trader Benny Cota.

Lt. Col. George Lomboy, commander of the Army’s anti-crime Task Group Cotabato, said they have been receiving feedback from informants, some of them Muslim religious leaders, that two of Cota’s abductors, identified as Wahab Upao and Omar Wayan, are both residents of this city.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259833 [Title] => 2 kidnap gang members nabbed in C. Mindanao [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Military intelligence forces captured two members of kidnap-for-ransom-group (KFRG) during a lightning raid in a secluded hideout in a remote village in Maguindanao province on Friday.

The troops, under the 12th Intelligence Security Unit and reconnaissance combat unit of the 6th Infantry Battalion, also recovered a cache of high-powered firearms during the raid in Barangay Kalokalo, Kabuntalan town.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231707 [Title] => 7 Pentagon suspects killed [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — Seven suspected members of the Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang were killed while eight others were wounded in a firefight with the military at the boundary of Datu Piang and Talitay towns in the province yesterday.

Local officials confirmed the Pentagon gang members were killed during the two-hour fire fight with Army intelligence agents searching for Norman Sia, a car trader abducted by the group in Cotabato City last week.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225872 [Title] => 2 Pentagon suspects in slay of Tacurong execs arrested [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguin-danao — Two of suspected Pentagon Gang members who are believed to be responsible for the Saturday killing of the assistant treasurer of Tacurong City and his staffer were arrested by operatives of the Army's 301st Brigade yesterday. [DatePublished] => 2003-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212553 [Title] => Netherworld [Summary] => The President, no less, suggested publicly that money from illegal drugs are funding the war chests of some terrorist groups.

That is a staggering suggestion. It creates all sorts of nightmares and opens a host of unhealthy possibilities down the road.

We do not have details about the alleged link-up. But we know the President to be a very careful person and it is uncharacteristic for her to make unfounded claims merely for soundbite value.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209474 [Title] => Disiplinahin ang sarili hamon ni Gringo sa MILF [Summary] => Hinamon kahapon ni Senador Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan ang Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) na patunayan ang sinseridad nito na matamo ang pangmatagalang kapayapaan sa Mindanao sa pamamagitan ng pagdisiplina sa sariling hanay at pakikipagtulungan sa gobyerno sa pagdurog sa bandidong Abu Sayyaf at Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206847 [Title] => Abu Sofia KFR group to cooperate with military [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — The notorious leader of the Abu Sofia kidnap-for-ransom gang, implicated in the abduction last year of a Korean treasure hunter in Sultan Kudarat, has pledged to help the military locate the whereabouts of his counterparts in the Pentagon kidnapping syndicate after turning himself in to the military over the weekend.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
PENTAGON GANG
Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 619470
                    [Title] => Failure to stop kidnaps in ARMM scored
                    [Summary] => 

Senator Francis Escudero scored yesterday the military and police forces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) for its failure to stop another kidnapping incident that left two people killed in Cotabato City on Friday.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 309338 [Title] => MILF spies to help locate Cotabato engineer [Summary] => KORONADAL CITY — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has reportedly deployed some of its "spies" to Maguindanao to help government forces recover the engineer who was abducted by the Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang last week.

Sources from the MILF said the group is still awaiting information from the spies, who were tasked to locate the whereabouts of 66-year-old Engineer Bravick Araral.

The MILF has been working with military forces in flushing out lawless elements in Mindanao for the past several months. 
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 308029 [Title] => Pentagon Gang abducts Cotabato engineer [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Heavily armed men, believed to be the notorious kidnap-for-ransom group of the Pentagon Gang, abducted a wealthy engineer and farm owner in a village in Libungan, North Cotabato.

The military identified the latest kidnap victim of the Pentagon Gang as Engr. Bravit Araral, 69, who was forcibly taken shortly before 8 a.m. Monday in the village of Baguer.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273316 [Title] => 2 kidnappers of Chinoy trader in Cotabato City identified [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Army and police intelligence operatives have identified two of the gunmen who abducted here last Friday Filipino-Chinese trader Benny Cota.

Lt. Col. George Lomboy, commander of the Army’s anti-crime Task Group Cotabato, said they have been receiving feedback from informants, some of them Muslim religious leaders, that two of Cota’s abductors, identified as Wahab Upao and Omar Wayan, are both residents of this city.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259833 [Title] => 2 kidnap gang members nabbed in C. Mindanao [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Military intelligence forces captured two members of kidnap-for-ransom-group (KFRG) during a lightning raid in a secluded hideout in a remote village in Maguindanao province on Friday.

The troops, under the 12th Intelligence Security Unit and reconnaissance combat unit of the 6th Infantry Battalion, also recovered a cache of high-powered firearms during the raid in Barangay Kalokalo, Kabuntalan town.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231707 [Title] => 7 Pentagon suspects killed [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — Seven suspected members of the Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang were killed while eight others were wounded in a firefight with the military at the boundary of Datu Piang and Talitay towns in the province yesterday.

Local officials confirmed the Pentagon gang members were killed during the two-hour fire fight with Army intelligence agents searching for Norman Sia, a car trader abducted by the group in Cotabato City last week.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225872 [Title] => 2 Pentagon suspects in slay of Tacurong execs arrested [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguin-danao — Two of suspected Pentagon Gang members who are believed to be responsible for the Saturday killing of the assistant treasurer of Tacurong City and his staffer were arrested by operatives of the Army's 301st Brigade yesterday. [DatePublished] => 2003-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212553 [Title] => Netherworld [Summary] => The President, no less, suggested publicly that money from illegal drugs are funding the war chests of some terrorist groups.

That is a staggering suggestion. It creates all sorts of nightmares and opens a host of unhealthy possibilities down the road.

We do not have details about the alleged link-up. But we know the President to be a very careful person and it is uncharacteristic for her to make unfounded claims merely for soundbite value.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209474 [Title] => Disiplinahin ang sarili hamon ni Gringo sa MILF [Summary] => Hinamon kahapon ni Senador Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan ang Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) na patunayan ang sinseridad nito na matamo ang pangmatagalang kapayapaan sa Mindanao sa pamamagitan ng pagdisiplina sa sariling hanay at pakikipagtulungan sa gobyerno sa pagdurog sa bandidong Abu Sayyaf at Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206847 [Title] => Abu Sofia KFR group to cooperate with military [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — The notorious leader of the Abu Sofia kidnap-for-ransom gang, implicated in the abduction last year of a Korean treasure hunter in Sultan Kudarat, has pledged to help the military locate the whereabouts of his counterparts in the Pentagon kidnapping syndicate after turning himself in to the military over the weekend.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
abtest
Are you sure you want to log out?
X
Login

Philstar.com is one of the most vibrant, opinionated, discerning communities of readers on cyberspace. With your meaningful insights, help shape the stories that can shape the country. Sign up now!

Get Updated:

Signup for the News Round now

FORGOT PASSWORD?
SIGN IN
or sign in with