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...back and died moments later. A bullet passed through the leg of Gracia Burnham, 43, and she had to be airlifted to Manila for treatment. Four Abu Sayyaf gang members also died in the shoot-out, but about two dozen others, including the group's leader, Abu Sabaya, escaped back into the jungle that has so successfully shielded them for years...
...capture of the Muslim extremist group's leaders. Weeks after the rebel organization grabbed the hostages from a holiday resort on the southern Palawan island, they beheaded one of the captives, Guillermo Sobero. They are still holding missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham. One Abu Sayyaf leader, Abu Sabaya, responded that the bounty gave the group more stature. THE U.S. Condemnation According to a report by Amnesty International, America's war on terror is threatening basic human rights to such an extent that in some categories the country is on a par with Cuba. The report cites the indefinite imprisonment...
...concrete wall behind the Torres Memorial Hospital in the dusty village of Lamitan on the southern Philippine island of Basilan. In the middle of it is a door, only 1.5-meters high. Seven months ago, roughly 60 members of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf kidnap gang led by chieftain Abu Sabaya were barricaded inside with about 20 hostages, including three Americans, definitively surrounded by the Philippine military. Their careers as terrorists seemed to be coming to a bloody conclusion. That is, until the early evening of June 2, in circumstances that are shadowy but undoubtedly scandalous, when the Abu Sayyaf opened...
...Sayyaf in the sense that where there used to be thousands [of members], now there are only hundreds. Just as Osama bin Laden has been able to reign, so has the most notorious of the Abu Sayyaf still been able to reign, and that's Abu Sabaya. Many, many people think that Basilan is a little island, three miles by three miles; it's not. It's 30 miles by 30 miles, and the forest canopy is so thick that even if you're standing 10 feet apart you can't see each other. Whether or not there...
...given the President 48 hours to accept a Malaysian businessman as negotiator. After that, Abu Sayyaf threatened, it would start killing the hostages. With the clock ticking away, Arroyo gave in to the rebels' demands?only to have them boast of beheading the Californian tourist anyway. Jeered Abu Sabaya: "It's up to you to find Sobero's head ... but the dogs may beat you to it." Speaking to diplomats after the 103rd Independence Day festivities, the diminutive President flourished some of her trademark rhetorical steel. The alleged murder, she said, "only strengthens our resolve to decimate once...