Armed rebels kidnap three factory workers.Byline: Barbara Mae DacanayBureau Chief Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits abduct three factory workers in Basilan By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief Manila Three factory workers were abducted from a plywood manufacturing firm in the southern Philippines yesterday, a day after kidnappers decapitated a school principal whom they had abducted last October, a radio report said. Armed men in military attire barged into Hitech Wood Craft Corporation in Maluso town on Basilan island and abducted Michael Tan, 27, Oscar Lu, 51, and Mark Singson, at noon yesterday, Basilan police chief Senior Superintendent Abu Bakr Tulawi said. The abductors took their victims to Basilan's forested area on foot. Tulawi said police had launched a massive rescue operation and are bent on bringing the kidnappers to account. Vice Governor Al Rasheed Sakalahul said: "Money could be the motive for this." No group has yet claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. However, the 400-strong Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group, is known to operate on Basilan island. Meanwhile, shocked residents on Monday found the decapitated head of school principal, Gabriel Canizares, near a gas station on Sulu island, a province near Basilan. On the same day, President Gloria Arroyo created a joint military police task force whose commission is to hunt down the kidnappers of the slain Canizares. The Philippine National Police The Philippine National Police is the national police force of the Republic of the Philippines. It is both a national and a local police force in that it provides all law enforcement services throughout the Philippines. said charges will be filed against suspected Canizare's kidnappers from Abu Sayyaf. However, the names of the suspects were not released. The Abu Sayyaf Group has active links with Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian conduit of the Al Qaida terror network. Last month, armed men abducted Irish priest Michael Sinnott in Pagadian, also in the south. Accusation Authorities claimed that a commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Noun 1. Moro Islamic Liberation Front - a terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in 1977 to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros; have clashed with troops at United States bases (MILF), a group which has been engaged in peace talks with the Philippine government since 1997, is holding Sinnott at the boundary of Lanao del Norte Lanao del Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Northern Mindanao region. Its capital is Tubod. The province borders Lanao del Sur to the south, Zamboanga del Sur to the west, Misamis Oriental to the northeast, Bukidnon to the east, and is separated from Misamis and Lanao del Sur Lanao del Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Its capital is Marawi City and borders Lanao del Norte to the north, Bukidnon to the east, and Maguindanao and Cotabato to the south. provinces in the south. The MILF denied the allegations, adding the commander has been in charge of efforts to rescue Sinnott. The Philippine government and the MILF had forged an earlier agreement to jointly flush terrorists out of Mindanao. Al Nisr Publishing Al Nisr Publishing is a company based in Dubai, UAE. The company is a part of Al Tayer Group. It was established in 1985 by Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Abdullah Al Rostamani and Juma Al Majid. It employs 1,050 people and has branches in Manilla, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. LLC 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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