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Filipino drowns in bid to escape law
A Filipino was found dead in a swamp here, a day after immigration officers raided a construction site on Saturday.
Senior Abu Sayyaf member captured
Anti-terrorist agents have captured a suspected member of an al-Qaeda-linked extremist group who allegedly helped kidnap an American and a group of schoolchildren four years ago, the military said yesterday.
Twist of fate ends hostage ordeal for resort workers
A twist of fate has ended the 213-day ordeal of four Borneo Paradise Eco Resort workers, who were held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf terror group in the mountainous jungles of southern Philippines.
RM150,000 per head offer gave rise to hostage grab
An offer of 1.5mil pesos (RM150,000) per head is believed to have prompted the hostage grab on board the I>East Ocean 2/Itugboat in the Sulu Sea last Sunday.
‘Robot’ denies Sipadan kidnappings
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.
Captured Abu Sayyaf commander shows remorse
A senior Muslim guerilla commander captured by the military has expressed remorse for a series of ransom kidnappings by his Abu Sayyaf extremist group, officials said yesterday.
Capture of leader a blow to Abu Sayyaf
The al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf kidnap group in the southern Philippines has been dealt a severe blow with the capture of its top leader in a military operation, President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday.
Commander Robot captured
B>ZAMBOANGA:/BA top rebel leader implicated in the kidnapping of dozens of European, American and other foreign hostages was captured Sunday in the southern Philippines, the military chief said.
A whole new world
The Elvis impersonator in question here is a huge moray eel, the King of scuba-diving sights at Pulau Mabul, off Sabah.
Borneo Paradise abductors growing desperate
The band of pirates who abducted five workers from the Borneo Paradise Resort near Kunak in the Sabah east coast are now desperate and have reduced the ransom they are demanding, Chief of Defence Forces Jen Tan Sri Mohd Zahidi Zainuddin said.
