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Ni Jun Cronico Eagle News Correspondent ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Napipinto na umano na tuluyan nang mapabagsak ang teroristang grupo na Abu Sayyaf, ito ang binitiwang pahayag ni Secretary Delfin Lorenzana ng Department of National Defense (DND). Ito ay matapos matanggap ang balitang sumuko na sa militar ang notorious at ang isa sa top 2 ASG leader na si Nurhassan Jamiri sa Basilan kasama ang 13 tauhan nito. Kalakip nilang isinuko ang 10 high-powered […]
(Eagle News) — Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits have freed a head teacher they abducted from a Sulu school on Thursday morning. Authorities said Marjorie Abdul, the head teacher of Liang Elementary School in Patikul, was released on the same day, around 11 p.m. They said this was after Abdul’s family paid an unspecified amount for her release. Abdul was inside her office when the suspects barged in and forcibly took her around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
(Eagle News) — Five suspected Abu Sayyaf members abducted a teacher in Sulu on Thursday. The Western Mindanao Command said Marjorie Abdul, head teacher at Liang Elementary School, was sitting in her office in Barangay Liang, Patikul when the suspects barged inside and took her hostage at 9:30 a.m. Wesmincom said it was “exhausting all efforts and means to track down the captors and rescue the hostage..,” as it condemned the kidnapping and all “kidnapping ploys […]
One of those arrested allegedly guarded hostages in 2001 Dos Palmas kidnapping Apart from Hood Abdullah, arrested was Jimmy Bla, another Abu Sayyaf suspect, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said. Abdullah is accused of guarding hostages including US citizen Martin Burnham, who was killed and his wife wounded in the crossfire during a botched military rescue attempt in June 2002. “Burnham, an American hostage, was always handcuffed to Abdullah… especially on the move,” Aguirre told reporters. Burnham […]
Widow’s two sisters, father linked to terrorist groups also arrested, PNP says The widow of Khadaffy Janjalani and Zulfikli Bin Hir alias Marwan has been arrested for allegedly supporting extremist groups and possessing firearms and explosives, police said on Sunday. Juromee Dongon was married to Janjalani, a senior leader of the notorious Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group until his death in 2006. She then married the Malaysian bombmaker alias Marwan, who was killed in 2015. In […]
The police said Sunday they were hunting for 12 inmates who escaped from a jail in Jolo, the stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf. The detainees were among 29 inmates who bolted from a prison inside a police station on Saturday where they were being held mostly on drug charges. The remaining 17 were recaptured the same day, police said. Jolo is a base for the kidnap-for-ransom group and authorities said they were investigating whether or […]
(Eagle News) — Government troops recovered in Sulu a cache of high-powered firearms allegedly owned by the Abu Sayyaf. The eight high-powered firearms—four M16 rifles and four M14 rifles—were found in Sitio Kadkad, Talipao at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, following a tip from a concerned citizen. The alleged Abu Sayyaf member guarding the firearms managed to flee before troops could get to the area.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Ten suspected Islamic militants who were trying to establish a Malaysian cell of the Abu Sayyaf have been arrested in Borneo island, police said Wednesday. The alleged extremists, mostly Filipinos, are also accused of trying to help fighters linked to the Islamic State (IS) group travel to the Philippines to join up with militants there, they said. The southern Philippines has long been a pocket of Islamic militancy. A long […]
Ni Jun Cronico Eagle News Service ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Pinarangalan ng pamunuan ng Police Regional Office 9 ang kanilang sampung pulis ng medalya ng kagalingan (PNP merit medal) sa isang flag-raising ceremony sa Project 9, Brgy. Mercedez, Zamboanga City noong Lunes ng umaga, Pebrero 19. Ang mga pinarangalan dahil sa matagumpay na pagkakaaresto sa dalawang bandidong Abu Sayyaf na sina Isa Sampang at Paisar Sampang sa Brgy. Mariki, Zamboanga City noong Enero 27, […]
(Eagle News) — Suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf abducted a government engineer in Sulu on Wednesday. The police said Enrico Nee, a Department of Public Works and Highways drill supervisor, was leaving his house in Barangay Upper San Raymundo in Jolo when the abduction took place around 8 a.m. The suspects fled toward Barangay Anuling in Patikul on board a vehicle. Authorities are now conducting an investigation.
(Eagle News)– Five suspected Abu Sayyaf members were killed and seven soldiers were wounded during a clash between them in Sulu on Sunday. The five fatalities were identified as Annib Black, Tasom Hammiri, Mikdad Juhurim, Undil Hussin, and a certain Roger. Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr., commander of the Western Mindanao Command, said the clash ensued in Old Panamao at 4:15 a.m., after at least 30 suspected Abu Sayyaf members fired at authorities who were about […]
Ni Jun Cronico Eagle News Service JOLO, Sulu (Eagle News) – Umakyat na sa 57 ang mga miyembro ng Abu Sayyaf ang sumuko sa militar sa Sulu. Ito ay matapos ibinaba nina Sulu ASG member Kadra Arajun Sawadjaan, Alnajar Sawadjaan, at Sherul Arad ang kanilang mga matataas na kalibre ng armas sa mga tauhan ng marine troopers sa Brgy. Bunot, Indanan, Sulu. Sinabi ni Major General Cirilito Sobejana, Commander ng Joint Task Force Sulu, na […]
