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Article: Two Abu Sayyaf Couriers Caught, as Military Closes In
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 12, 2001
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The Philippine authorities have arrested two couriers of the Abu
Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group holding 21 American and Filipino
hostages in the southern part of the country, officials said
Thursday.
Damming Ungga, head of a special anti-crime task force, said one
of the arrested was the wife of an Abu Sayyaf leader, whom he did
not identify, adding that the other is a man, also without
identifying.
The two, Ungga noted, were arrested on Wednesday in separate
operations in the southern city of Zamboanga, a 30-minute boat ride
from Basilan island where Abu Sayyaf gunmen were holding the
hostages, some of them for more than five weeks.
Describing the two as Abu Sayyaf couriers, Ungga said the ...