FOILED RESCUE BID?

Benjie Talisic, Leo Udtohan, Nestle Semilla 04/23/2017

POLICE OFFICER, MAN WITH ABU SAYYAF LINK ARRESTED IN CLARIN CLARIN, Bohol – A Mindanao-based female ranking police officer, suspected of plotting a rescue of Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members on the run in this town, was…

Cornered

Inquirer, Inquirer.net 04/23/2017

Leave it to a motorela driver to tip off government forces into the lair of the elusive Abu Sayyaf bandits who dropped by Inabanga town, Bohol province two days before Holy Week to victimize foreign tourists and…

4 ABU DOWN, 4 ON THE RUN

Leo Udtohan, Nestle L. Semilla 04/22/2017

  Abu Sayyaf Group remnants found CLARIN, Bohol — The smell gave them away. A habal-habal (motorcycle-taxi) driver yesterday became suspicious of his two smelly passengers and tipped off the police about the possible presence of the…

3 more Abu Sayyaf killed in ongoing clash in Bohol town

Leo Udtohan 04/22/2017

CLARIN, Bohol—Three more members of Abu Sayyaf were killed in the raging gun-battle with government troops who had been pursuing them since noon on Saturday. The suspects were killed during the clash in the mountain village of…

ARMED MEN SPOTTED ON OLANGO?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Benjie Talisic, Izobelle T. Pulgo 04/20/2017

Government troops have surrounded a coastal village on Olango Island, 6.4 kilometers from Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island, after a resident claimed to have seen two armed men in the area past 2 p.m. on Thursday. When…

Tourism in CV feeling impact of Bohol clash

Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/20/2017

The tourism industry in Central Visayas is taking a beating as the negative effects of the encounter between government forces and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Bohol as well as travel advisories issued by various countries…

Duterte cancels visit to wake of cop slain in Bohol encounter

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Leo Udtohan 04/20/2017

MUDDY roads stopped President Duterte from attending the wake of the lone policeman killed during the encounter with Abu Sayyaf members in Inabanga town, Bohol, last week. Instead, Philippine National Police Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa…

“Suspicious-looking” men held by police in Oslob

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/20/2017

CEBU CITY–Police have held for questioning six “suspicious-looking” men on board a van in Barangay Tan-awan, Oslob town, 121 kilometers south of Cebu City. Five of them are Muslims from Lanao del Norte while one is a…

Gov’t troops secure Olango village due to “armed men”

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/20/2017

CEBU CITY–Government troops have surrounded a coastal village on Olango Island, 6.4 km from Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island, after a resident claimed seeing two armed men in the area past 2 p.m. on Thursday. When police…

In which terrain can gov’t forces win?

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 04/20/2017

I am now beginning to understand why it is really very hard for the government forces to fight the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Basilan and Jolo as can be gleaned from their failure to neutralize the…

MAO BA?

Editorial 04/20/2017

TYPO ERRORS A reporter called up a police director to ask about the document being circulated on social media. The document contained a directive to police precincts to check on the coastal areas in their jurisdiction. While…

Bato warns Abu Sayyaf their days are numbered

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/20/2017

“Bilang na ang mga araw nila. (Their days are numbered).” This was the message of Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa to the remaining Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members who had escaped…

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