[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine authorities are holding an Abu Sayyaf militant involved in the 2011 kidnapping of an American woman and her son.Regional police spokesman Dahlan Samuddin said Wajir Arijani, also known as Abu Miqtad, is being interrogated following his capture at a hideout in Santa Catalina village in Zamboanga City. Arijani is a member of the Abu Sayyaf faction led by Puruji Indama in the neighboring province of Basilan.
Samuddin said the militant was involved in the kidnappings of Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann and son Kevin on July 2011 on their beach house in Zamboanga. He said, "The arrest was made after a long period of pursuit and surveillance operations by the intelligence community that finally pinpointed his location."