Six foreign nationals abducted on samal

It really couldn't happen anywhere else!

 

It's this type of incompetence that allows these kidnapping gangs to run around and do whatever they please. When the only thing that matters to get a job is who you are related to you get this level of incompetence.

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I imagine sketch artists have one hell of a time in Asia....especially if they are getting descriptions from tourists of different ethnicity. Police sketches are usually quite bad and usually don't lead to an arrest anyways. In the West there is a new program that is doing a much better job though. I wouldn't hold anything against that police sketch artist, he can only draw what the eyewitnesses describe....and from the looks of it nobody really got a good look at the guy. (Different eyewitnesses usually don't give the same description unless the guy had something wrong/different about his face.)



Here is some CCTV footage.

Most of the guys look pretty average but the one in the rear of the group stands out to me. His gate seems a bit strange (even while carrying a weapon that's about as big as him), maybe he has a gimp foot/leg, he has longer hair that seems to be a lighter color than the rest of the guys and is extremely thin (maybe 110-120lbs?). I think if anyone is recognized out of the group it would be him.....or the one at the front of the group that hits the foreigner resisting. That one seems to be in charge/most aggressive. But that's just one small clip from a shitty CCTV camera. I would think that the resort would have more than 1 camera (I remember another clip inside the resort but can't seem to find it now).

 

The four hostages snatched from Samal Island in Davao del Norte 10 days ago and their kidnappers have been sighted at the foot of Mount Bud Daho in the jungles of Sulu.

This was revealed by a senior official of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) to Manila Bulletin yesterday citing friends and sources in the area.


“They were sighted by MNLF fighters the other day (Monday),” he said.

The MNLF official speaking on condition of anonymity said the kidnappers landed on the beach of Barangay Silangkan, Parang, Sulu at around 1 a.m. of September 25 and were met by Al-Habsi Misaya.


The source said Misaya leads an Abu Sayyaf faction who recently kidnapped a Chinese resort manager (Yang Zai Lin) in Sandakan on Sabah island in 2014 and brought him to Sulu. Misaya’s group had reportedly earned several millions of pesos from their kidnapping activities.

He said Misaya and his men led the hostages – two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipina at foot of Mount Bud Daho, about eight kilometers from Jolo, the capital town of Sulu.


The victims were seized on the night of Sept. 21 from the Ocean View Resort in Barangay Camudmud, Babak district, Samal Island, Davao del Norte.

Mount Bud Daho was the site of the “Bud Daho Massacre” of some 1,000 Tausug men, women and children in 1906 by American forces.


The source said the kidnappers’ lair is about 15 to 16 kilometers away from the camp of MNLF founding Chair Nur Misuari.
Hostages sighted in Sulu; captors demand P2M before showing proof of life – MNLF | mb.com.ph | Philippine News

 

In other words, they allow these kidnapping groups to operate in the area they say they control. They are proving that they cannot (or do not want to) stop terrorists and criminal organizations from operating within their area. The Philippine government should get rid of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and send their military in to control the region (or let the US do it in exchange for oil and mineral rights). It's quite obvious that the "religion of peace" in the Philippines has no interest in having peace and order.