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Article: Philippine rebel challenge to US: The Abu Sayyaf claimed for the first time to have killed a foreigner - a Peruvian-born American.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 13, 2001
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Byline: Simon Ingram Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BANGKOK, THAILAND -- A mass kidnapping in the southern Philippines took a gruesome turn on Tuesday, with claims by the hostage-takers that they have beheaded one of three Americans they are holding captive.
The man allegedly killed was named as Guillermo Sobero, from Corona, Calif. He was among 20 people - including two American missionaries - snatched from a tourist resort on May 27 by gunmen belonging to the Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebel group.
The current crisis bears close similarities with another mass kidnapping last year, in which Abu Sayyaf gunmen seized 21 foreigners and ...