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Filipino troops kill wanted militant
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September 20, 2010, Monday
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PHILIPPINE troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a southern coastal village yesterday and killed a long-wanted militant who helped in the 2001 kidnapping of three American and 17 Filipino tourists and the takeover of a hospital, the military said.
Abdukarim Sali was killed before dawn in a clash with troops and police in Lower Mangas village on Basilan island's Lantawan township - a stronghold of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, regional military commander Lieutenant General Benjamin Dolorfino said.
The other militants fled, leaving behind Sali's body, an M16 rifle and grenade launcher, ammunition and cell phones.
The government offered a US$7,700 bounty for the capture or death of Sali, who had been accused of helping kidnap the Americans and 17 mostly Chinese Filipinos in May 2001 from the Dos Palmas resort in western Palawan province.
Hunted by hundreds of troops, the militants brought their captives by speedboat to Basilan, where they took over a hospital in Lamitan town snatched a hospital staff member and two nurses.
American missionary Gracia Burnham survived the jungle captivity, but husband Martin and one of the Filipino nurses were killed in an army commando rescue in 2002. The third American, Guillermo Sobero, was beheaded by the militants. The other hostages were freed separately, reportedly after ransom payments.
The government claims to have crippled Abu Sayyaf but the group is a security threat.
Abdukarim Sali was killed before dawn in a clash with troops and police in Lower Mangas village on Basilan island's Lantawan township - a stronghold of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, regional military commander Lieutenant General Benjamin Dolorfino said.
The other militants fled, leaving behind Sali's body, an M16 rifle and grenade launcher, ammunition and cell phones.
The government offered a US$7,700 bounty for the capture or death of Sali, who had been accused of helping kidnap the Americans and 17 mostly Chinese Filipinos in May 2001 from the Dos Palmas resort in western Palawan province.
Hunted by hundreds of troops, the militants brought their captives by speedboat to Basilan, where they took over a hospital in Lamitan town snatched a hospital staff member and two nurses.
American missionary Gracia Burnham survived the jungle captivity, but husband Martin and one of the Filipino nurses were killed in an army commando rescue in 2002. The third American, Guillermo Sobero, was beheaded by the militants. The other hostages were freed separately, reportedly after ransom payments.
The government claims to have crippled Abu Sayyaf but the group is a security threat.
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