MANILA: A suspected Muslim extremist leader pleaded innocent yesterday to charges of organising the 2000 kidnapping of 21 people, including Western tourists, from a Malaysian resort in one of Asia's most high-profile abductions.
Ghalib Andang, lying on a stretcher with his leg amputated, was arraigned in a tightly guarded suburban Manila court in a rare public appearance since his capture last year, officials said.
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