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2019-06-01 Southeast Asia
Dutch hostage killed while trying to escape from militants in Philippines
[AlAhram] A Dutch photographer held hostage by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked snuffies in the Philippines since 2012 was killed on Friday by his captors when he tried to escape during a firefight on a remote southern island, the military said.

Ewold Horn, a wildlife photographer, was shot by his guards from the Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
group when he tried to flee during a clash between government troops and the Death Eaters, said Brigadier General Divino Rey Pabayo, commander of a Joint Task Force on Sulu island.

Horn and a fellow photographer, Lorenzo Vinciguerra from Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
, were taken captive as they were sailing off an island called Tawi Tawi on a bird-watching trip more than seven years ago and later taken to Sulu. Vinciguerra escaped in 2014.

Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said the Netherlands had informed Horn’s family.

"I am shocked by this terrible outcome", Blok said, "I have been in contact with the family. I will ask my counterpart in the Philippines for further clarification."

Six snuffies were also killed in the firefight in the town of town of Patikul on Sulu, Pabayo said. The circumstances of the firefight were not immediately clear.

Also killed during the clash on Friday was Mingayan Sahiron, the wife of Radullan Sahiron, a big shot of the Abu Sayyaf, the military said.

Radullan Sahiron is on a U.S. State Department wanted list with a $1 million reward for his capture since his involvement in the kidnapping of U.S. tourists in 2001.

He was believed to have escaped the clash, another military front man said.

The Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent group in the Moslem south of the largely Catholic Philippines, has been known for extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State snuffies in Iraq and Syria.

It earlier pledged allegiance to the al Qaeda Death Eater group.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top
 File under: Abu Sayyaf (ISIS) 

#1 And how is this incident being attributed to Trump?
Posted by AlanC 2019-06-01 07:44||   2019-06-01 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 ...cause they couldn't blame Gerbil Warming?
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-01 08:43||   2019-06-01 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 While Duterte is getting the full girlfriend experience over in Japan. I thought these people were afraid of his balls. At 70, I guess all balls shrivel up.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-01 12:29||   2019-06-01 12:29|| Front Page Top

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