Abu Sayyaf beheads 2 loggers in Basilan 06/13/2010

Abu Sayyaf beheads 2 loggers in Basilan

06/13/2010 Islamist militants in the island province of Basilan in Mindanao beheaded two loggers they abducted just hours earlier, police yesterday said. Police retrieved the headless corpses of the two victims identified as seized Daduh Lumatang and Manuel Lumasag early Saturday after they were abducted by Abu Sayyaf gunmen while at work, Basilan police director Senior Supt. Antonio Mendoza said. It was the second report of killings of civilians by the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan this month. Abu Sayyaf was set up with seed money from al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and is suspected by the military of tactical ties with Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian Islamist group blamed for several attacks in Indonesia..... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100613hed6.html

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