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==Aussie kidnapped in Zambo Sibugay seeks $2M ransom== | |||
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2012/01/05/aussie-kidnapped-zambo-sibugay-seeks-2m-ransom-198930 | |||
*Thursday, January 5, 2012 | |||
:by sunstar.com.ph | |||
MANILA (Updated 10:19 a.m.) -- The captors of an Australian man kidnapped in Zamboanga Sibugay have released a video in which the victim urges Manila and Canberra (Australia) to help raise a $2-million ransom for his release. | |||
The video of 53-year-old Warren Richard Rodwell had been sent to his Filipino wife in late December. | |||
The Sydney Morning Herald posted the video online Thursday. | |||
Military and police authorities said last month that the Australian national is already in the province of Basilan. | |||
The whereabouts of Rodwell was established through “intelligence fusion” of the military and police in the region, 104th Infantry Brigade commander Colonel Ricardo Visaya earlier said. | |||
Rodwell, a former university teacher in Shanghai, was taken at gunpoint by about six men on December 5 from his house in Greenmeadow Subdivision, Lower Pangi village, Ipil town. | |||
It was the latest abduction of a foreigner in the country's volatile south where several kidnappings for ransom have been blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group. | |||
Rodwell married last June 2011 a Filipina, Miraflor Gutang, who is a native of Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay. His family settled last October in Ipil after they bought a house and lot at Greenmeadow Subdivision. (AP/Sunnex) | |||
==Suspected Islamist militants in Mindanao send photos of kidnapped Australian== | ==Suspected Islamist militants in Mindanao send photos of kidnapped Australian== | ||
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/243503/news/regions/suspected-islamist-militants-in-mindanao-send-photos-of-kidnapped-australian?ref=latest | *Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/243503/news/regions/suspected-islamist-militants-in-mindanao-send-photos-of-kidnapped-australian?ref=latest | ||