http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/jan/07/yehey/top_stories/20050107to p6.html
Friday, January 07, 2005 Abu Sayyaf member on US list arrested ZAMBOANGA: Troops in the Zamboanga peninsula captured Thursday an alleged member of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap gang with a $20,000 reward on his head offered by the US government, an official said. Toting Hanno, alias Jacaria, was arrested in a raid by military intelligence agents on the island of Sacol off the Zam-boanga peninsula, the Southern Command chief, Lt. Gen. Alberto Braganza, said. Hanno's arrest came just hours before the US Embassy deputy chief of mission, Joseph Mussomeli, arrived in Zam-boanga to inspect projects funded by the US Agency for International Development (Usaid), Braganza said. The military said Hanno was part of an Abu Sayyaf unit that raided a Christian hospital in the town of Lamitan, Basilan, in 2001, during which dozens of locals were kidnapped and some were later beheaded. The same unit also seized three Americans from a southwestern resort in the same year. Two of the Americans were later killed. "He is tagged to be involved in the kidnapping in Lamitan during the siege at Dr. Jose Torres Hospital on June 2, 2001," Braganza said. "Hanno is on the US reward list with a $20,000,00 price," he added. The suspect has been brought to an Air Force base here for interrogation and would be presented to the press later Thursday, Bra-ganza said. The Abu Sayyaf is a small group of Islamic militants blamed for a series of kidnap-pings and bombings in the Philippines in recent years. The group has kidnapped and ransomed off dozens of foreign hostages since 2000. The group also claimed responsibility for the February bombing of a ferry that killed about 100 people on Manila bay. The group has been linked by both Washington and Manila to the al-Qaeda terror network of Osama bin Laden. --AFP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
