by Alito L. Malinao
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year, the kidnapping of foreigners resurfaced in the southern Philippines with
the abduction Monday of two Canadians, a Norwegian, and a Filipino woman from
the Holiday Ocean View Samal Resort in Samal, Davao Oriental.
The police identified the Canadians as John Ridsdel,
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Kjartan Sikkengstad, 56, operations manager of the resort. The 40-year-old
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Initial police report showed that around 20 heavily-armed men swooped down at
the resort Monday night in a well-coordinated abduction operation.
Three days after the kidnapping, no group has claimed responsibility nor was
there any ransom demand.
But the police initially suspected the Abu Sayyaf, a notorious
kidnap-for-ransom gang in the Muslim provinces of Sulu and Basilan, as behind
Monday's kidnapping.
The Abu Sayyaf has links with al-Qaida and Jemaah Islamiyah, the Indonesian
terrorist group.
On Oct. 17 last year, the Abu Sayyaf released its two German
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after a ransom was paid although the Philippine government and the German
embassy in Manila have denied paying any money.
But Abu Sayyaf confirmed in a radio interview that they received a 250
million pesos (5.4 million U.S. dollars) ransom in exchange for the release of
the two German hostages. The bandit group had threatened to behead the German
hostages unless ransom money was paid.
The two German hostages were abducted and held for six months in the bandit
group's jungle lair in Sulu, a predominantly Muslim province in the southernmost
tip of the Philippine archipelago.
In 2001, the Abu Sayyaf also tried but failed to kidnap foreign tourists in
Samal Island's Pearl Farm resort. Three security men died fighting the
attackers.
On Monday's kidnapping, the police said that the gunmen seized their captives
from aboard yachts and reportedly brought them towards the town of Pantukan in
nearby province of Compostela Valley.
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escaped from the police dragnet and brought their victims to the mountains of
Davao Oriental.
The police said that the gunmen also tried to seize a Japanese couple from
one of the yachts docked at the resort but they resisted and escaped by jumping
off the boat.
Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) chief Lt. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, said
that there has been no report of the gunmen and their captives heading to the
suspected lairs of the Abu Sayyaf in the islands of Basilan and Sulu.
There was also a note reportedly left at the gate near the docking area of
the yacht club which read "Katarungan sa aming Commanderby NPA," (Justice for
our commander), apparently referring to the New People's Army rebels, active in
eastern and northern Mindanao.
However, authorities have yet to ascertain if the NPA was behind the
kidnapping.
The government has created an interagency task
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City government to hunt down the kidnappers.
Police intelligence reports said that the Abu Sayyaf is currently holding
nine hostages, including four foreigners, in the jungles of Sulu in Mindanao's
southwest.
In Malacanang, the seat of the Philippine government, President Benigno
Aquino III was reported to be personally monitoring the situation.
Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said the Philippine National
Police (PNP) was doing "what was appropriate and following
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their relatives."
The Canadian and Norwegian embassies in Manila have declined to give any
statement although wire reports said that a Norwegian foreign ministry
spokeswoman in Oslo, Lothe Salvesen, has said that the Norwegian government was
investigating the report.
Samal Island, about 800 kilometers southeast of Manila, is a short boat ride
from the southern commercial center of Davao City in the island of Mindanao
where there are several Muslim armed groups fighting the Manila government.
Samal is a high-end resort famous for its white sand beaches and diving
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