by Boldstar
(The writer had lived, studied and worked with and among Muslims in Mindanao before she migrated to Australia. These are based on her personal experiences, research and observations.)
Since when did profiteering through ransom, rapes and extortion become parts of a religious Jihad to establish an independent Islamic state? “Never”, my Muslim friend snapped during our heated discussion about Abu Sayyaf. And so we both agreed that Abu Sayyaf, supposedly a group of Mujaheddin fighting for a super Islamic state in Southern Philippines, is a criminal entity. Or one that started as idealistic as any Jihadist but ended up as common criminals more akin to the pickpockets of Cubao and the fondlers who populate a sardine - packed Mumbai train.
Abu Sayyaf, according to the Americans, is a terrorist organization. Maybe, but in life we are judged by our conduct and history. As hard as I look into this organization, naive as I may, I could not accept that human beings are involved. Evil prevails as witnessed by all of us in the conduct of these supposed Mujahedin. How many beheadings, rapes, kidnappings, and extortions all for money before we say enough? These people and the organization they represent are not fighters for a holy war. They are criminals, and the law and our nation must not be held impotent because of fear of an Islamic backlash.
In Mindanao, they have no support from our Muslim brothers and sisters. Islam is a religion of peace, brotherhood and justice they say. But why have they not exterminated these thieves and murderers out of the island? Our government is at fault. They have allowed Abu Sayyaf to acquire wealth through ransom payments and extortions that amount to tens of millions of dollars. If estimates are correct, of the core members that number a couple of hundred, they are now millionaires.
Anyway what’s a tragedy without the corresponding conspiracy theory? Well, allegedly, as alleged by my imaginative Muslim Friend, Khadaffi was freed by his imaginary friend inside Camp Crame by paying the required toll fee, you know like having a plasma or a couple of girlfriends stay overnight at Bilibid Senators Hilton. Allegedly, off he went, with the goal of propagating the wickedness that is an ‘Islamic’ Jihad in Mindanao with an alleged expectation of a bountiful American military AID, in billions.
Since when did profiteering through ransom, rapes and extortion become parts of a religious Jihad to establish an independent Islamic state? “Never”, my Muslim friend snapped during our heated discussion about Abu Sayyaf. And so we both agreed that Abu Sayyaf, supposedly a group of Mujaheddin fighting for a super Islamic state in Southern Philippines, is a criminal entity. Or one that started as idealistic as any Jihadist but ended up as common criminals more akin to the pickpockets of Cubao and the fondlers who populate a sardine - packed Mumbai train.
Abu Sayyaf, according to the Americans, is a terrorist organization. Maybe, but in life we are judged by our conduct and history. As hard as I look into this organization, naive as I may, I could not accept that human beings are involved. Evil prevails as witnessed by all of us in the conduct of these supposed Mujahedin. How many beheadings, rapes, kidnappings, and extortions all for money before we say enough? These people and the organization they represent are not fighters for a holy war. They are criminals, and the law and our nation must not be held impotent because of fear of an Islamic backlash.
In Mindanao, they have no support from our Muslim brothers and sisters. Islam is a religion of peace, brotherhood and justice they say. But why have they not exterminated these thieves and murderers out of the island? Our government is at fault. They have allowed Abu Sayyaf to acquire wealth through ransom payments and extortions that amount to tens of millions of dollars. If estimates are correct, of the core members that number a couple of hundred, they are now millionaires.
According to Martin and Gracia Burham, their kidnappers were: “shallow, even adolescent, in their faith. Unfamiliar with the Quran, the outlaws had only a sketchy notion of Islam, which they saw as a set of behavioral rules, to be violated when it suited them. Kidnapping, murder and theft were justified by their special status as “holy warriors”. One by one they sexually appropriated several of the women captives, claiming them as `wives` (Mark Bowden The Atlantic, March 2007, p.60)
What is fascinatingly astounding, dumbfounded as it may, is that one of the leading criminals in this whole enterprise was a prisoner at Camp Crame in 1995, three years before his older brother the founder Abdurajik was killed. Khadaffy Janjalani alias Khadafi Montanio “escaped” Camp Crame, the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police just across Camp Aguinaldo, the National Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He was short in stature but oozing hubris and an elevated opinion of himself according to the FBI. He had a five million US dollar bounty on his head. Apparently, he is dead according to the Army but to his relatives he is hiding somewhere.
Anyway what’s a tragedy without the corresponding conspiracy theory? Well, allegedly, as alleged by my imaginative Muslim Friend, Khadaffi was freed by his imaginary friend inside Camp Crame by paying the required toll fee, you know like having a plasma or a couple of girlfriends stay overnight at Bilibid Senators Hilton. Allegedly, off he went, with the goal of propagating the wickedness that is an ‘Islamic’ Jihad in Mindanao with an alleged expectation of a bountiful American military AID, in billions.
So to believe or not to believe, that is your question.
Parang Glutamax... Stand-out ang maputing Abu Sayaf... Diba Amiel!
Larry Leviste sez.....
I have been told by a Palace source that it is their brothers that pay the ransom, say Libya or Malaysia.
It is going to fund the terrorists anyways. From brother terrorist to brother terrorist.And PGMA can strut like a cock saying there was no ransom paid.
But how to remit this money, that is the question.
My source says it's a chess game with the Pinoy Armed Forces. Everyone at checkmate till one blinks. That is why there is NO BEHEADING.
They are WAITING for the money from their Muslim terrorist counterpart abroad. It makes headlines and the money is forthcoming.
Methinks it's TRUE the government and Armed Forces might skim from the " ransom money " to be sent from abroad.
It'll be in dollars and they will take a hefty cut.
Bilibid or not.
Gilbert Teodoro finally said Dick Gordon is destructive. His big mouth should shut up! Teodoro said Gordon's statement is an "unfortunate attempt" that has an effect on assisting rebels again.
Dapat ikulong na yan si Gordon eh!
Teodoro said that Gordon’s meddling was an “ unfortunate” move, urging him to leave the issue to the Crisis Management Committee in charge of the current situation.
“It is unfortunate because it has the effect of helping and assisting the Abu Sayyaf gain its demand rather than anything else, that is probably the unintended effect of the statement of Sen. Gordon by saying that the lives of the hostages are up to the President,” the Defense secretary said.
The senator’s “latest statements only served to strengthen the hand of the kidnappers. The military pullout demanded by the [Abu Sayyaf kidnappers] is a criminal attempt to allow them to wreak havoc elsewhere. There should be a stop to these destructive attempts at interfering with the Crisis Management Committee’s work,” Teodoro added.
Gordon said that he had been talking over the phone to Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Albader Parad who led the kidnapping of the three ICRC aid workers.
Saakin lang po ... I don't care if kidnapped victims get beheaded basta NO RANSOM para tumigil na sila!
The Abu Sayaf gives Muslims a bad name!
Teodoro said it was "unfortunate and uncalled for" for Gordon to put the blame on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should the kidnappers behead Swiss national Andreas Notter and Italian national Eugenio Vagni." Gordons statements only serve to strengthen the hand of kidnappers," Teodoro said ."The military pullout demanded by the Abu Sayyaf is a criminal attempt to allow them to wreak havoc elsewhere.
Gordon is simply posturing
Gordon has no recourse but to involve himself in the matter, especially with the ineptitude of Teodoro as Defense Secretary and utak pulbura mentality of General Juancho Sabban.
Paano mo ba ipapakatiwala ang buhay ng kasamahan mo sa mga ito?
Kung ama ka at mga anak mo iyong bihag ng Abu Sayyaf, at nakitaan mo ng maling mga diskarte ang mga namumuno sa pagligtas sa mga ito, hindi ka ba aalma?
Pakay lang ni Gordon ang iligtas ang kasamahan niya. Si Teodoro, nagpapa-pogi. Si Sabban, utak pulbura.
yeah, I heard this never-ending story of Abu Sayaf even before im still in Mindanao.
One of my colleague from Zamboanga told us his piece of story,during our Mindano conferences in Davao, that the son of his friend ,a Philippine Air Force was asked to go to Zamboanga to "deliver" the boxes contained with arms marked as AFP in the middle of the Patikul forests.
Even he is very curious why he is dropping all those things, military rules is that " Obey first before you complained and What you see, what you hear , leave it here" rules! The poor guy feel accomplice of military crimes for supporting the stooopid bandits and terrorists.
Teodoro is A TUTA who licks the vagina of PGMA or in sosyal parlance is brown nosing PGMA till it looks like his nose is covered with cholick.
Teodoro is the CANDIDATE of PGMA as her plan 3 IF ELECTIONS are to be held. Her disgusting HUBBY may have serious heart attack this year.
The good thing about GORDON is he CONSTANTLY communicates and as we've seen in hostage crisis movies is GOOD and EFFECTIVE and could always bargain and compromise.
TEODORO on the other hand just reads the script and barks like a TUTA to protect his MOST HATED and CORRUPT Pinoy president in HISTORY.
Hinihintay lang and FUNDS from LIBYA. Then the goverment skims and the 2 will be released.
I am a seer of the future. I can't help this. It was God given...er LENT.
Assasinate PGMA. Demolish her government. MAKIBAKA, huwag MATAKOT.
That's life.
muslims don't kidnap fellow muslims becuz of the adage "an eye for an eye...a tooth for a tooth." the abu sayaf members have relatives, too.
The Abu Sayyaf
It's Not About Terrorism
August 22, 2002—Under the now universal rubric of the "war on terrorism," following the events of 9/11, the US counter-insurgency called Operation Balikitan began in January 2002, with no public discussion and in contravention of the Filipino constitution.
While the White House and the mass corporate media have portrayed Operation Balikatan as a joint US-Filipino police action against the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim guerrilla group supposedly linked to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, Philippine President Arroyo herself declared that the ties between al-Qaeda and Abu Sayyaf have been non-existent since 1995.
Under Balikatan, the US and Philippine militaries (thousands strong, armed with sophisticated high-tech weaponry, aircraft and vehicles) have waged "total war" against a small group of (80 to 200) bandits, whose criminal activities appear to be a police matter for local authorities. The recently intensified action has included a bungled hostage rescue—that left two of three hostages dead—and the assassination of a top Abu Sayyaf member, Abu Sabayah.
To knowledgeable observers such as investigative journalist Bobby Tuazon of Bulatlat.com, the US operation in Mindanao is a flimsy cover for a global enterprise, in which the Philippines is being primed as a base for the projection of US power in the region and cleared of all local resistance to increasing US and foreign corporatization. The opportunistic and calculated use of "anti-terrorism" is a key component of the enterprise.
Abu Sayyaf: Another CIA Creation
According to Michel Chossudovsky, it is a fact that the CIA keeps track of its "intelligence assets"—particularly the ones that it created and continues to use. For example, according to Chossudovsky, it has been amply documented that the al-Qaeda terrorist network has been infiltrated (if not long controlled) by the CIA and its Central Asian branch, Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), and that the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden have been, and continue to be, well-known, if not guided, by high-level US intelligence.
The so-called Islamic jihad and its related Afghan jihad was created by the United States (CIA) and its allies, and launched in the 1970s and 1980s to fight the Soviet Union. Motivated by nationalism and religious fervor, and kept out of touch with upper levels of the intelligence hierarchy, Islamist warriors were, and continue to be, unaware of whose purposes they serve.
"In the nature of a well-led intelligence operation," Chossudovsky writes, " the 'intelligence asset' operates (wittingly or unwittingly) with some degree of autonomy, in relation to its US government sponsors, but ultimately it acts consistently, in the interests of Uncle Sam." Simply put, the CIA runs terrorist groups all the time without them having any clue that the CIA is setting them up and funding them.
Likewise, the Abu Sayyaf is a creation of the United States and its CIA—and continue to serve the geostrategic purposes of the United States government, which directly and indirectly controls their operations. Abu Sayyaf was founded by remnants of the Islamist mujahadeen, bankrolled and manipulated by the CIA, the Pakistani ISI, and elements of Saudi Arabia's wealthy elite during the jihad against the Soviet Union. According to John Cooley, author of Unholy Wars, Abu Sayyaf was the last of the seven Afghan guerrilla groups to be organized late in the war—in 1986 or three years before the Soviets withdrew.
According to Philippine Senator Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., the Abu Sayyaf is a "CIA monster." In a recent speech, Pimentel said, "It is a well-documented fact that the CIA had recruited, trained and funded mujahadeens from among the Moros of Southern Mindanao to fight the Russians."
Bobby Tuazon writes: "The fact remains that since the early 1990s, the group has been involved chiefly in criminal operations while maintaining liaisons with both military and local officials. This is partly the reason why the group refuses to die." Just as the US has inflated the al-Qaeda legend, the US and Philippine officials are playing up the Abu Sayyaf "monster" and its alleged connection to al-Qaeda to justify a bigger US military assistance program and bigger US operations in the Pacific region.
Abu Sayyaf and Drugs
In a paper by Professor Peter Dale Scott, he writes that major US military campaigns "whether by coincidence or not, have all aligned the US on the same side as powerful local drug traffickers. Partly this has been from realpolitik—in recognition of the local power realities represented by the drug traffic. Partly it has been from the need to escape domestic political restraints: the traffickers have supplied additional financial resources needed because of US budgetary limitations, and they have also provided assets not bound (as the US is) by the rules of war. And partly (I believe) it has been from a concern to manage the drug traffic itself, and ensure that it will never fall under the control of another hostile power."
In the case of the Abu Sayyaf, we find another example of this "deep political" dynamic. According to Sakib Salajin, mayor of Maluso (a hotbed of Abu Sayyaf activity), the Abu Sayyaf functions as a "protector of foreign drug trafficking syndicates." The group also controls a thriving marijuana production post. Salajin says his office has compiled "substantial evidence" of drug trafficking," but said that no funds or personnel were available to plug the problem.
Basilan police director, Chief Supt. Bensali Jabarani, confirmed Salajin's assertion. "Drugs are a major source of Abu Sayyaf funds," he said. "Aside from drugs from the Golden Triangle, marijuana grown here is exported to Zamboanga and other parts of the Mindanao mainland."
This is significant in light of the statements made by Philippine Senator Pimentel, who said, "Abu Sayaff has been covertly supported by select Philippine military officers since the Ramos administration. Philippine officers did not only 'handle' the Abu Sayyaf, they coddled, trained, protected them, passed on military equipment and funds from the CIA and its support network."
Eliminating Nationalism and Local Resistance
Widely unreported (and purposely distorted) in corporate media coverage of Operation Balikatan is the fact that the Moro people have been fighting for the right of self-determination in the southern Philippines for over 50 years, and has resisted colonizers for over 300 years. By design, these groups have been broad-brushed by the Bush and Arroyo administrations as terrorists, and lumped together with the Abu Sayyaf.
The Moro National (MNLF) signed a peace agreement with the Philippine government in 1996 that established the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Its offshoot, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), refused to sign the peace agreement, but negotiated a ceasefire in 2000. The MILF has been fighting against elite armed forces trained by the US and using US military weaponry since President Estrada's declaration of "all out war" against them in 2000.
The New People's Army (NPA) is led by the Communist Party of the Philippines
Senator Pimentel put it clearly: "The MILF and the Abu Sayyaf should be not be lumped together as if they are the same dog wearing different collars. They are not. The MILF is pursuing a political agenda. The Abu Sayyaf is pursuing a purely criminal agenda. The MILF is fighting to retain their own culture, their own religion, their own identity. The Abu Sayaff is fighting to convert crime into industry for the group's profit."
According to the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, " . . . it was not circumstantial that at the peak of Estrada's military offensives against the MILF, the Abu Sayyaf came back to life. The propaganda machinery of the Estrada government (and the Arroyo government by extension) had successfully packaged the Abu Sayyaf and the MILF as one."
Such distinctions are, of course, being ignored by the United States.
Amnesty International and other human rights groups are reporting indiscriminate mass arrests and torture of suspected members and sympathizers of Abu Sayyaf.
In a speech before the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Honolulu on January 8, 2002, the head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Dennis Blair, called for "the defeat of separatist movements and insurgencies" throughout the region. In February 2002 testimony before Congress, Blair pushed for a widening of the operation. "Over 5,000 additional billets are needed to address the full range of force protection, anti-terrorism, and counter-terrorism missions throughout the Pacific command," he said.
hay naku basta I love Boldstar. She has become a writing sensation in our school!
Tnx Victorina...
GO BOLDSTAR.... We love you!
hey anonymous -- Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Abu Sayyaf
It's Not About Terrorism
August 22, 2002—Under the now universal rubric of the "war on terrorism," following the events of 9/11, the US counter-insurgency called Operation Balikitan began in January 2002, with no public discussion and in contravention of the Filipino constitution.
this is so interesting. where can I read/learn more?
is this from an article? could you provide the link/s? thank you.
again, Willie Revillame and Abu Sayyaf and ABS-SHIT-B-N should really work together.
thegoodgirlblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/wowowee-hostage-was-set-free.html
"Methinks it's TRUE the government and Armed Forces might skim from the "ransom money" to be sent from abroad." -- very true
If anyone believes that ASG had not demanded a ransom, and phil govt didn't help facilitate the ransom payment, tell that to the marines! been there, done that.
i know a wealthy family from Mindanao and one of their family members kidnapped by bandits some 10-15 years back, instead of paying ransom they hired people to abduct the kidnappers' relatives as payback...
walang nagawa yung mga kdnapper kundi makipag trade,
eye for an eye
During President Jueteng Estradas insanity, whom my friend calls "BIKO" because he is like a sticky rice, his sticky fingers were/are on everything, the conflict in Mindanao around the year 2000 intensified.
although the conflict had displaced people in the past, the world bank reported that during Sticky Estrada's all out rampage millions were displaced ending up in Sabah.
In Sabah and particularly in Kota Kinabalu there are many ghettos of stateless and illegal Filipinos. It is heartbreaking. (please Lets not argue about Malaysia and Sabah)
Only an evil government and its administration would subject its people of such prolonged cruelty.
You expect Gordon to shut up when he is the head of the Phil. Natl. Red Cross? So tatahimik na lang siya?
Agree Anon April 6, 7pm
ASSASSNATE GMA!!!
Interesting article from the boldstar and Anonymous.
Amiel,
rememeber in 93 or 94, where our neighbor got mutilated. I asked your dad (very recently)if they were Abu, and he said they were ordinary bandits.
I got confused a bit. Aren't Abu ordinary bandits?
I just took it that back in 93 Abu was not yet identified as a rebel group.(correct me if i am wrong)
best regards to you and your family,Amiel.
Hi Karl M. Garcia,
Remember neighbor that Jolo was under the control of my dad for quite some time...Let me share with you a quote from the book "The Philippine Navy" by Regino Giagonia.
"Another notable achievement of the unit (under Cabanlig)was the release of kidnap victim Hans Kunzli without paying a SINGLE CENTAVO to the abductors, who demanded P1 million."
Simple use of good intelligence, show-of-force and outright HONESTY and INTEGRITY can do the job diba!
The author adds "In nearly two years of deployment in Jolo, the unit (of Cabanlig) a number of pacification campaigns such as the amicable settlement of warring factions, facilitated the activities of the Regional Consultative Committee and Peace Commission and the activation of the Jolo Internal Dedefense Command (JIDC)."
I don't know what happened to Jolo when Gen. Espinosa et al took control ???
Sincerely,
AMIEL
Read "Under the Crescent Moon" by Vitug. Put the blame on Col.Gloria and Gen.Guillermo Ruiz. Every good thing that Cabanlig did these two gentlemen destroyed!
why does the government seem to think they can negotiate with terrorists...or simple minded extortionists for that matter? i think these bandits will never understand what negotiation means...they have people they care for too right? give them a dose of their own medicine, that's all the negotiation they should be allowed to have, one of us, one of them, enough bullshit
In the early 1980s, the CIA actively recruited, "armed and supported" moujahideens or volunteer Muslim warriors to fight the CIA sponsored-US proxy war in Afghanistan against the Russians who had invaded the country in 1979 and had put up a puppet regime there.In the words of John K. Cooley in his book, Unholy Wars, "This group (of Filipino Muslim Moujahideens)...Thus was the Abu Sayyaf born.
General Guillermo Ruiz, whom Vitug had tagged in their book as responsible for the Marines’ flirtation with the Abu Sayyaf, figured recently in the rescue of an Abu Sayyaf hostage in Sulu.
He had his picture prominently taken in the company of Sec. Robert Aventajado, chief negotiator of the government for the release of the Abu Sayyaf hostages.
In all likelihood, Gen. Ruiz got involved in the Abu Sayyaf hostage release negotiations because he is supposedly trusted by Abu Sayyaf partisans having been a "coddler" of theirs in the not-too-distant past.
Gen. Ruiz should be called to account for his involvement with the Abu Sayyaf!
Sa libro na “Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao ni Marites Vitug at Glenda Gloria, “hawak” at least ng tatlong military at police officers (isang dating commanding general ng Marines na si Brig. Gen Guillermo Ruiz (retired), Chief Supt.Leandro Mendoza (kasalukuyang Sec DOTC) at Chief Supt. Rodolfo Mendoza ang ASG partisans. Bukud sa hawak at asset, kinakalinga, sinasanay, pinoprotektahan, binibigyan ng military equipment at pondo rin ito ng CIA, ilang support network at posibleng mula sa intelligence fund ng AFP.
Istratehiyang devide and rule tactics ang gamit na paraan laban sa Muslim insurgency sa Mindanao.
Connections to ABU
* MNLF: There are some former members of the MNLF, whose leader is Nur Misuari, who cooperate directly or indirectly with Abu Sayyaf. But, thus the authority of the state, too, are in the game at least on the periphery.
* CIA?: Incidentally, bits of information are emerging to the effect that the Abu Sayaff Group was an indirect creation of the CIA. We are not sure if this is necessarily true, since you have always to be cautious about attributing indiscriminately to the CIA anything that goes wrong in the Philippines.
The penchant of some people to routinely blame the CIA for things that are among the responsibilities of the Philippine government sound stridently puerile and irresponsible. However, some information about the Abu Sayaff Group from Filipino sources and from readings of American newspapers mainly through the Internet must not be ignored. Piecing discrete bits of information together makes out a case, at least, pro tanto that the Abu Sayaff might, indeed, have been a creation of the CIA and had been covertly supported by select military officers during the administration of President Ramos.
The funds and arms of the Abu Sayaff were provided by US covert operators, probably connected with the CIA. Usama Bin Laden could have been the principal courier for either the Abu Sayaff funds or the arms or both.
* Usama Bin Laden?: Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, supposedly a colleague of Bin Ladin, was directly implicated as one of the bombers of the World Trade Center.
* Wahab Akbar, who secretely held the reins of all kidnappings executed by the ASG since spring time 2000 and most probably he collected a big share of the blackmailed ransom money that had been paid since then.
* Officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines(AFP): According to reliable information the Abu Sayyaf partisans were given military intelligence services IDs, safe-houses, safe-conduct passes, firearms, cell phones and various sorts of financial support even by knowledge of high officers of the AFP.
* In all likelihood, Gen. Ruiz (today a retired military officer) got involved in the Abu Sayyaf hostage release negotiations because he was supposedly trusted by Abu Sayyaf partisans for having been a "coddler" of theirs in the not-too-distant past.
Gen Guillermo Ruiz is the most trusted deputy of Gen Ed Cabanlig... It turns out the former is a snake!
For Amiel:
Thanks for the excerpt about your dad, Amiel.
again my regards to you and your family.
Happy Easter to you and to all.
Kidnappings are on the rise because they have become extremely lucrative and virtually risk-free for the outlaws engaged in it, the Nacionalista Party led by Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. said Sunday.
"On account of inadequate law enforcement, kidnapping has become a high-reward and low-risk activity, whether in Sulu, Basilan, the Zamboanga Peninsula or in Metro Manila," NP spokesperson and former Cavite Rep. Gilbert Remulla said. "The apparent success of past kidnappers who remain scot-free after getting huge payoffs has merely served to embolden more lawless elements to pursue the nefarious trade," Remulla said.
Remulla stressed the need for government to demonstrate that anybody who resorts to kidnapping is bound to get caught and punished, and would not get to enjoy any of the benefits outside jail."Law enforcement agencies should aggressively and relentlessly fight kidnappers on all fronts, in the field and in the courts, especially when they are not holding any hostages," Remulla said.Remulla, meanwhile, urged government to "professionalize" hostage negotiations. He noted that law enforcement agencies lack anti-kidnapping experts as well as professional hostage negotiators.
"The agencies of other countries have men and women effectively trained and fully experienced to deal with hostage takers," he pointed out.
LIES LIES LIES! The Muslim community shelters these groups. If they wanted to could easily rat out these people but they don't! The Muslims community don't have good reputation from where I live they are called terrorist to cowards.
As far as I could remember during the MOA stage every Muslim that I know came out of the woodwork to support it. Now when the kidnappings about these good people from the red cross. You see these people hiding and keeping their silence. So much for religion of peace. They should change it to religion of cowards and terrorist!
And besides care ng Malaysia and Libya in all this hopla! It doesn't make sense why they pay for that ransom? What's the logic that they have to pay for other people's shitty situation!