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==[[Zamboanga Sibugay News]]==
==[[Zamboanga Sibugay News]]==
'''Philippine terrorists escape Basilan with Australian captive - Zamboanga Today Online'''
'''Palace hopes for release of other kidnap victims in Mindanao'''
*Source: http://cebusandman.typepad.com/philippines_travel_news/2012/03/philippine-terrorists-escape-basilan-with-australian-captive-zamboanga-today-online-2.html
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2012/03/22/palace-hopes-release-other-kidnap-victims-mindanao-212637
*March 19, 2012 at 11:22 AM
*Thursday, March 22, 2012
:By Mindanao Examiner
:By . (SDR/Sunnex)




An Australian man kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines was spirited out of Basilan province where security forces have been battling the terrorist group tied to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, officials said Saturday.Officials said Warren Rodwell, 52, has been moved by his captors to Zamboanga Peninsula on the restive region of Mindanao, where the former Australian army soldier was kidnapped in December.“We have reports that Rodwell was taken by his kidnappers to Zamboanga Peninsula because of the intense military operation against the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan,” Colonel Ricardo Visaya, the provincial army commander, told the Mindanao Examiner.He did not give details about the escape, but said the operation against the terrorists will continue in Basilan. “We will not stop until these terrorists are neutralized,” he said.Another security official has confirmed the report and said Rodwell was taken to Zamboanga Sibugay or Zamboanga del Sur.Visaya said they have captured an Abu Sayyaf base in the town of Sumisip following a fierce firefight on Thursday that killed one army soldier and wounded three more.The bomb-making base is being used as by terrorist leaders Puruji Indama and Khair Mundos whose group is said to be holding Rodwell, who married a Filipina, Miraflor Gutang, 27, lasy year in Ipil town in Zamboanga Sibugay province where the prolific traveller was kidnapped.Both Indama and Mundos, blamed by authorities for the spate of terrorism and kidnappings for ransoms, escaped the military offensive.The Abu Sayyaf demanded $2 million ransoms for Rodwell's safe release, but his wife said they cannot afford to pay and appealed to the terrorists to free the foreigner.
MALACANANG is hoping Thursday that the other kidnapped victims, including an Australian and two Europeans, will be released soon through the facilitation of the local officials in southern Philippines.
In his regular press briefing, presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said that Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo informed Malacañang regarding the release of Roselyn Kiram Wednesday afternoon in Maligay village, Patikul, Sulu.
Armed men seized Kiram, a health worker, on Monday in Liang village, also in Patikul.
"We would like to inform you that as per my discussion with Secretary Jesse Robredo, the health worker...was released yesterday through the mediation of the local government officials and also the DILG (Department of Interior and Local Government)," Lacierda said.
"So we are hoping also that the others who are still in captive will be also released with the same effort, amount of mediation involved. We hope to see that they will be released soon," he added.
The suspected Abu Sayyaf members were allegedly holding Australian Warren Richard Rodwell, who was abducted in early December in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay; and Swiss national Lorenzo Vinciguerra, and Dutchman Ewold Horn, who were kidnapped by armed men while on a birdwatching expedition in Tawi-Tawi province early February.


==Zamboanga Sibugay Zip Codes==
==Zamboanga Sibugay Zip Codes==

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