By Julie Alipala
Mindanao Bureau
Breaking news: Angelo Valderrama, Ces’ assistant cameraman was released Thursday night.
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — The hired driver of television reporter Ces Drilon and her crew has claimed to police that a known “military agent” and not members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group abducted the ABS-CBN team, the Sulu police chief said Thursday.
Senior Superintendent Julasirim Kasim, Sulu police director, said driver Maramma Hasim, the man hired by Drilon and her team to chauffer for them in Maimbung on the day of their disappearance, claimed that one Juamil “Maming” Biyaw was the “missing link” to knowing who was behind the abduction.
Biyaw, a resident of the village of Sandah in Patikul town, is known in Sulu as a military agent, Kasim said.
Kasim said Hashim, who is now in police custody, claimed Biyaw was with the group Sunday when Drilon, cameramen Jimmy Encarnacion and Angelo Valderama, and their guide, Mindanao State University Professor Octavio Dinampong went to Maimbung.
They went missing after an armed group reportedly intercepted them along Kulasi, town of Maimbung while on their way to meet Abu Sayyaf leaders “to cover a special event.”
Quoting Hashim, Kasim said Biyaw ordered the driver to stop somewhere in the village of Labbah at around noon Sunday.
“The passengers, including Madame Ces, thought there was problem with the car,” Kasim quoted Hashim’s account.
“All the passengers casually went down from the vehicle and this Biyaw guy invited the four to join him in a walk towards Mount Mabusing (interior of Labbah). So there was no scuffle. Madame Ces and the rest walked casually,” Kasim added.
Hashim was reportedly surprised when the five left him on the highway.
“But he waited until 4 p.m. and this Biyaw returned alone instructing the driver to leave the place. The driver, apparently disturbed, followed the orders,” Kasim added.
“Because of fear, the driver didn’t even show up readily and he is now in our custody. Right now, we are looking for this Biyaw and we are checking further his background and how close he is with the military as he being reported as an agent,” Kasim said.
But Kasim admitted he was “a bit confused” by the different information he has been receiving the past days.
“He (Hashim) gave information that runs counter to what our Maimbung police earlier supplied,” he said.
“It was my Maimbung police chief (Inspector Abdulsamad Mañalas) who said that, and I admit it might have been a presumption since the incident took place where Gafur Jumdail’s group operates,” he said.
But Maimbung Mayor Najib Maldisa said Mañalas had denied giving the identities of the kidnappers prior to confirmation from the ABS-CBN executives.
“It’s a good thing we did some of our homework. That is why I was a bit hesitant in blaming anyone especially if I didn’t see them with my own eyes or receive any information direct from these bandits,” the mayor said.
But as far as Kasim was concerned, the police are now looking at other groups.
“But I will not say anything at this moment. I just let Hashim’s affidavit speak for what is the latest development,” he said.
Maldisa, on the other hand, said Biyaw “is closely associated with some Marines in the brigade.”
Abdulwahid Basaluddin, chair of the Anak Sug Professionals in Sulu, said Biyaw, aside from being a former MNLF member, was a “conflict mediator like Professor Octavio (Dinampo), although Biyaw has more access to military than Dinampo,” the Mindanao State University professor who was acting as Drilon’s guide.
Maldisa admitted to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, parent company of INQUIRER.net, that he was also confused by the turn of events.
“Yesterday, the Abu Sayyaf, and now they’re saying it’s not the Abu Sayyaf,” Maldisa said.
The mayor said the police should immediately get Biyaw “because he is the key to knowing who is behind the abduction.”
“If they’re not being held by the Abu Sayyaf, and the MNLF doesn’t know anything about their disappearance, then another group could have seized them,” he said.
Maldisa said he had been doing his own investigation, asking MNLF commanders, “but all them say they know nothing. Some, especially those in the hinterlands, were even surprised to know that there was a kidnapping.”
Even the Abu Sayyaf men earlier tagged as being behind the kidnapping were surprised.
A former MNLF sub-commander now employed with a town mayor said both Abu Sayyaf leaders Albader Parad and Gafur Jumdail denied having a hand in the kidnapping.
He said he had dispatched several people, upon instructions of the mayor, to enter Parad’s camp in Indanan town and Jumdail’s lair in Maimbung, and “these bandits were all shocked about the report.”
“When my people went inside, especially in the camp of Parad, and they chanced upon them sipping coffee, they (Parad and his group) were all shocked to learn that Drilon was kidnapped,” he said, adding that his men even checked the inner bunkers to make sure none was being hidden inside.
At Jumdail’s camp, situated between the villages of Kulasi and Labbah, the source said his men also came out empty handed.
But Lieutenant General Nelson Allaga, chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, dismissed the information as “pure speculation.”
“We assure everyone that efforts are ongoing for the safe recovery of the ABS-CBN crew, so any speculation will certainly jeopardize these efforts.”
Allaga said he did not want to speak or react to the reported participation of the alleged military agent.
“I don’t want to say anything so as not to confuse everyone,” he said.
Allaga said Task Force Comet chief Brigadier General Juancho Sabban and PNP ARMM Regional Director Joel Goltiao were going to Sulu Thursday afternoon to supervise the military operation to secure the captives.
Asked about what type of military operations he was referring to, Allaga replied: “It will have nothing to do with artillery fire or heavy troops. Negotiation is also a form of military operation.”
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ABS-CBN talking to Drilon ‘everyday’–Lopez
By Elizabeth Sanchez-Lacson
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The chairman and chief executive officer of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. said the network is “talking…everyday” to television reporter Ces Drilon, who was kidnapped with her crew and a guide in Sulu on Sunday.
“We’re talking to her everyday. She’s okay,” said Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III on the sidelines of a stockholders’ meeting of Benpres Holdings Corp., the publicly-listed investment arm of the Lopez family.
Lopez reiterated that they would not entertain any ransom demand for the kidnapped journalists.
“Of course not [will not pay ransom]. It would make life difficult for all of you [journalists]. We need prayers,” Lopez said.
See what I’ve been suspecting? There’s no proof that it was the Abu Sayyaf or any Muslim bandit group that kidnap Ces. The mastermind could be Malacanang. Ces was very outspoken and critical of the GMA Administration. The Lopezes of ABS-CBN are at war with Malacanang. One plus one equals Malacanang. I reiterate that in every criminal activity these days, we should not discount Malacanang’s role in it because the number one criminal is the current illegal occupant of Malacanang!
Ngayon delikado na ang buhay ng apat na na-kidnap. Buking na naman sila.
And why is Esperon so quiet? Where’s he now after he retired?
Wasn’t he appointed as Peace Negotiator in Mindanao. He could be the one in charge of the kidnapping using his military agents.
Angelo Valderama, ces’ assistant cameraman was released at 9:25 p.m.
Huh, lumalabas na ang totoo?!
Palayain na nila si Ces at ang isa pa! Bistado na rin lang ang laro.
Hopefully, Ces Drilon will return to her friends and family alive. I pray for her safety. By all means, I’ll go to the temple today and pray for her even when I’m really tied up with a lot of things to do. I got so many translations to do, plus prepare for my trip out of the country to attend a migrant confab. Tignan natin kundi gabaan iyong kumidnap kina Drilon. Wala pa naman akong nakikitang pagitain. Medyo magulo lang ang panaginip ko kagabi for some reason. Will see what I am going to dream of today. In the morning, I’ll leave my fingers to tell the story on my computer. So help me God!
What? Hashim in police custody daw? Susmaryosep! Iligtas ninyo siya. Baka bukas siya na ang suspect, tapos patatakbuhin kuno at babarilin para walang witness sa tunay na pangyayari. Parang nakakasindak na pelikula. Diyos mahabagin!
Wow! Ang daming nagfi-feed ng wrong info. Madaming pumapapel. Kesyo may kinalaman din si Prof. Dinampo, kesyo nag-join forces sila Albader Parad at Umbra Jumdail ng Abu Sayyaf, Kesyo JI na ngayon ang may pakana, kesyo inilipat na ng kampo, etc.
Ang hunch ko, maraming gustong magpa-impress na meron silang contact kuno sa abductors kaya nag-aapply silang negosyador. Ang totoo, gusto lang pumarte o mag-tongpats sa ransom.
Tongue, Posted comments in your blog. Why doesn’t register?
I was surprised to read from an article of The Daily Tribune that Secretary Teodoro said that the “..government forces should not be affected with the shifting activities of the bandits but must neutralize them as soon as possible.”
Unless I am misunderstanding what he meant, I find his comments disturbing. As Defense Chief, how could he say that at a time when the kidnapped victims are still being held by the ASG ? By saying that the ASG must be neutralized immediately, wouldn’t that put Ces et al in peril ? Wouldn’t a statement like that make the ASG not want to release Ces & the rest ?
The article goes on to say that “Teodoro then asked the media to be extra cautious in their news coverage to prevent similar incidents with the terror group.”
After his previous statement, it’s more like he placed the lives of the media groups covering this story in danger.
Here’s the link to the story:
http://tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080613hed1.html
I read that too, Chabs.
Bagets na bagets ang comment ni Teodoro.
Angelo Valderama, one of the two cameramen of Ces Drilon was released late Thursday night to Sulu Vice Gov. Lady Ann
Sahidula, according to Undersecretary Amilasan Amilbajar of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for Mindanao.
Si Ass kaya ang panawagan ko na palayain na si Ces and other one. Afterall, he is the ‘piece negotiator’ in the area. Hoy, Ass….release them, trabaho lang sila, walang personalan sa iyong Milady!
Ces cried for help : Emissary
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/100849/Emissary-Ces-Drilon-cried-for-help
It must be a very scary ordeal even for a very strong person like Ces. Hope everything will turn out ok in the end. That everyone will be released soon.
Maliwanag pa sikat ng araw that this kidnapping may again be just a staged one! Allaga the “alaga” will be overseeing the operation? He also oversaw the election operations where money flowed like honey! Magkano naman kaya ang “cut” ninyo dito “alaga” and the invisible “peace advisor”? It is all money making with the blessings of the most corrupt leader. These rogue politicians and military are getting sooo gooood at pointing their fingers at the ASG and the MILF when all the fingers point back at them. It is money making time again! More “anti- terrorism” funds to get from Dubya, ransom money from the Lopezes and to give to the “alagas” na pabaon before retirement. What can we expect from a leadership that is so embedded in deep “shit”? If she is not upright herself, how can she castigate these rogue ones?
Chi, baka si ass pa ang isa sa mga directors nito. Di ba ang director halos hindi nakikita sa screen? Kulang pa yung retirement money na naibigay sa kanya. Di rin niya nakuha yung “juicy” post ng DND kaya ransom money na lang, pwede na.
Magaling din ang script writer nito dahil isa isang nirerelease yung mga witnesses. Siyempre, iba ang nakita nung unang driver. Iba rin ang nakita ni Valderama. The captors are changed to create a lot of confusion pero iisa lang ang utak and we know who!
Tama si Trillianes na ang “operations” diyan sa Mindanao are actually gawa gawa lang at pinagkakaperahan by the same people who are suppose to be the “peace” keepers. Dollars ang pumapasok sa operations. Hinding hindi mahuhuli and mga kidnappers kasi mga protected yan! Even if they release Ces and company, we will never know who the real villains are dahil puro galamay ng corrpt na gobierna yung iba sa kanila. They have perfected the operation of deception hindi lang sa metro cities but also in the rough battlegrounds in Mindanao. This kidnapping, terrorism and other despicable operations by rogue Abus, MILF and even the military may even be the underworld arm of this government or by some politicians who want to perpetuate themselves in power. Just like the jueteng operations, this too is a very lucrative source of income!
In the 60s, Crisologo had an army called “saka-saka”, barefoot army. But still inspite of his humungos army wherever he went, he still got assassinated in the church, of all places!
PSB,
It is so pathetic that no one believes in whatever EK says. Walang gobyerno ang Pinas.
Kaya ang panawagan ko ay kay Ass, director mismo ng moro-morong ito. Nawawala rin sa eksena si Mongoloid Gonzales, nandun din sigurado sa South, ayaw mahuli sa pansitan.
Ang masama ay baka pagbintangan na tipper ang driver nina Ces at likidahin na para hindi ma makapagbigay pa ng ibang impormasyon. Anything can happen under the bitch.
PSB,
Talaga, perfected na nila ang script. Imagine, sinabayan pa ng kidnapping ng dalawang marines to confuse the situation. Mga buhay ang nakasalalay sa sitwasyon kaya huwag naman sanang laruin lang ang mga buhay na iyan para sa negosyo nila o para masustena ang kapritso ni pandakekang.
Chi, 10 marines were beheaded because of the games they play. Pinatay nila si Akbar to pay for the lives of these marines. It is never enough! Sa mga kriminal na ito, walang kuwenta ang buhay basta may mga pera at kapangyarihan lang sila! They are the lowest form of living creatures!
Chi, do you think these villains will heed what the evil bitch says? Tatawanan lang siya. Kanya kanya na lang silang diskarte dahil parepareho lang naman silang mga kriminal!
Chabeli: By saying that the ASG must be neutralized immediately, wouldn’t that put Ces et al in peril ? Wouldn’t a statement like that make the ASG not want to release Ces & the rest
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Kaya nga tawag ko “Bobo!” Wala naman kasing alam kundi palakpakan si Gloria Tupak naa-appoint. Entonces, palpak ang trabaho. Mali-mali pa ang sinasabi na walang basehan, scientific and otherwise.
Alam lang ng mga ungas, magsahod ng palad! “Palimos po, or better still, “ang lagay, TY?!”
Two million paid for “board and lodging” of Valderrama! Yan na ang pinakamahal na acommodation sa buong mundo at worthy to be in the Guiness World Records! First class na higaan, siguro sa papag, nakatali pa ang kamay, nakapiring ang mata at walang tulugan at paliguan ng ilang araw. Two million? Tiba tiba na naman ang mga “alaga”!
Mas mahal pa yang bayad ng per room night kesa yung 7 star na tinirahan ni evil bitch sa Middle East!
PSB,
The bitch has no leverage and moral authority to put a stop to the big business of kidnapping in the South as she is so rotten korap. She has also an interest to it, the anti-terror funding as you said. A PhD imprisoned and cornered by her greed for power, that’s Gloria Arroyo, a presumptuous and pretender to the throne.
Maliban sa mga buhay na ibinabala nila sa kidnapping cases na ganito, I’d say the bitch deserves to rule a military she transformed into a mercenary outfit. Now, it’s out of her hands and uncontrollable, siya ngayong ang kontrolado!
Kay Valderrama pa lang iyan. Wala pa iyong kay Ces and the other one. Baka triple ang presyo ng board ang lodging ni Ces dahil siya ang sikat.
Kapag pinalaya na iyong dalawa ay kokolekta na ng additional anti-terror funds si bitch kay dubya.
Hati-hatian na!
And the most personal mission has been completed, she has given Lopez the warning ‘be told and obey or face the consequences’.
Wow, shooting three birds in one stone!
Chi, yes she plays downright dirty! Hindi natin alam yung ibang parte ng istorya but I fear for the lives of those who are still in the custody of the group and even the ones who were already released. Magaling ang tropa ni evil bitch na magbaliktad ng truth! Look at what they have done to Lozada? Kung sino yung nagsasabi ng totoo, yun ang nakukulong and the ones good in fabricating stories as long as it favors them (evil bitch and company) are out enjoying all the loot!
Walang moral mandate si evil bitch dahil puro peke ang alam niyang gawin so as long as she is in power, wala siyang pakialam kung sino ang mawawala, mabibilanggo o mamamatay. Pa landi landi na lang siya(Yuko, I got this from you)at pawaldas waldas na lang siya ng pera ng bayan like it is her money!
Tama ka Chi, the Lopezes may be one of the real targets in the abduction of Ces and company! Shooting three birds with one bullet describes this aptly!
Sabi nga ng nanay ni Jonas, “Ilabas na ninyo lahat sila!” Abaw, pati si Alston, sinisiraan ng mga palpak. Akala ni Gloria kaya niya lahat kasi. Ulol!
Ilabas na ninyo ni Drilon! Let the showdown begin dapat sana!
I’d like to believe this story. One doesn’t have to be born in Mindanao to deduce that another scripted event is “unfolding before his very nose.” He just have to track down the events these days. Ain’t kidnapping “Mindanao style” (in late ’90s to the present) been a lucrative business? Serves a lot of people (politicians, “military” handlers & kidnappers) very well! Too bad, innocent people always, are always made as sacrificial lambs.
Shame and DAMN those masterminds! Evils!!!
The military. the LGUs, everybody and the terrorists have two faces to use depending on how to get the most money and what side of the fence. Ang mga police, kahit saang fence. Too many cooks complementing each other. It works anywhere in the country.
Its out of character for the Abu Sayaff not to lay claim of this latest kidnapping incident. Isn’t it that during the Dos Palmas kidnapping, Abu Sabaya is all over the place? You can see and read him everywhere whether in print or broadcast media giving interviews at every opportune time. And to top it all, they would readily lay claim to every kidnap incident they managed. But now, if they are the real perpetrators, why so silent? Hmmm…
And here is another question: If all of them are finally released/ rescued… and finally in a very comfortable and safe place very far from Sulu. Will they talk? Will they finally tell the whole nation and the world who kidnapped them? Just wondering!
Dear Ellen,
This was my write up about my interview with Professor Dinampo. I hope it can help your readers.
Alan Tanjusay
June 13, 2008
ARE ABU SAYYAF GROUP BANDITS, REBELS OR HEROES?
By Alan A. Tanjusay
Mainichi Shimbun
Manila Bureau
09206699187
Are the Abu Sayyaf Group bandits, rebels or heroes?
These are what Professor Octavio Dinampo are trying to discover to himself in his thesis which is scheduled to come out along with other compilations of other thesis in a book currently in its final stages of printing. Or at least, these were his latest preoccupations when the Mainichi Shimbun interviewed him on the evening of May 30, 2008, a Friday, in a restaurant in Makati City.
He was taken aghast as to why the publishers chose his thesis as centerpiece in the upcoming book. I replied and said that he may have been too placid because not only that he was a trusted insider but because current leaders of the so-called ASG were at ease confiding to him being a Tausug. His eyes beamed.
Mr. Dinampo exposed the heart of the Khadaffy Janjanlani in his interview with him in 2006 and gave us a rare ideological germination of the group and how it is mired in the ecosystem of geopolitics and propagandas.
And on his personal meeting with the current leader Radulan Sahiron in February this year, Dinampo is a raindrop on this side of the Mindanao Sea. While Sahiron, the man with 200,000 US dollars reward for his capture, appeared a centurion unrecognizable for his scars slowly fading into the dark and unable to explain the blood in his hands.
This was the sum total of my impression of him and his subject matter the last time we met him on that evening. Or, maybe so.
Prior to the dinner, Dinampo concluded a weeklong conference that started in Davao City and ended in Makati city that dealt mainly on discussions on counter terrorism policies employed by countries in Southeast Asia.
With his in-depth and frequent experience with the armed group, nothwithstanding his blood and religious-ethnic relations to some of ranking mujahideen and jihadists, we wanted to know what were his findings on the Abu Sayyaf Group as his subject.
But just like any other rocket scientists, Mr. Dinampo has stunned us with his baffling findings: the ASG is the new brand of forerunner of the aspirations and future plight of the Bangsamoro people.
He was referring to the Al Harakatur Al Islamiya—the very same group which the late Abdujarak Janjalani created in 1989 after realizing the leaders of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has compromised themselves and made the aspirations of the Bangsamoro people impure in exchange of poisoned luxuries offered to them through out the years.
From where I am coming, the ASG has a noble cause but what about the kidnappings, the beheadings and the deaths?
Sahiron was very healthy after a bout with a debilitating diabetes courtesy of his quack doctor deputy Dr. Apu Pula, a surprised Dinampo said.
Dinampo said he was surprised because after the wounds and decapitated arm Sahiron suffered since he fought for the MNLF in the 70’s, the successor, who is now in his late fifties, is in complete control of his judgment and his men and the clusters of other armed men under him who are in the guerilla tactic mode in the mountains of Sulu and in Basilan islands.
Here is the Mainichi Shimbun interview with Dinampo in February 2008:
Mainichi Shimbun: With the recent deaths of ASG leaders, what can you see with regard to the future of the ASG?
Dinampo: Before Khadaffy Janjalani was buried, there was immediately an appointment or transition from Janajalani to Radulan Sahiron. Considering Radulan is a veteran MNLF freedom fighter I would say that the transition from Janjalani to Sahiron I believe will even make ASG a little bit strong in at least in Sulu and Basilan, Tawi-Tawi. The experience and respectability of the people on Radulan will yield some positive factor for the ASG in that province.
Mainichi Shimbun: You mean to say people and members of ASG have more respect to Radulan rather than Janjalani?
Dinampo: It’s like this. The ASG is bounded first and foremost by relationship…blood relationships, then next to that is geographical loyalty. In other words before the succession of Radulan, he’s already the chief of staff of the ASG, he is definitely a man to reckon with in the province of Sulu even if Khaddaffy Janjalani was still alive. But in Basilan definitely a Janjalani territory and you do not question people’s loyalty to him in that province. Sulu is more of Radulan’s island but now since Janjalani is dead they have a more wider territory.
Mainichi Shimbun: You mean, the ASG will become stronger militarily since their territories are combined?
Dinampo: Yes, because Radulan has mastered that territory for his advantage since he was part of the MNLF fighter. One of this strategy that he mastered is the art of strong propaganda among the community. In fact, Radulan is spreading propaganda asking the people “where is the MNLF now? Cohabiting with teh government now?”. So if these things are being kept repeated, people become so angry. And they would take advantage of that because we are talking here of mass base support. And my worry is: if the ASG should become the next forerunner of the Bangsamoro cause. Because the ASG in Sulu are more freedom fighters, they are more readers rather than bandits or terrorists.
The Philippine government refused to talk to the ASG because they call them terrorists but in my observation there are part and segment of the ASG that are involved in terroristic activity but the ASG based in Sulu are not, they are more cause oriented. We should not generalize the ASG as terrorists. Radulan is saying “they talk to the communists but they don’t talk to us, so be it if they wanted it that way”.
Momentarily they will have some setback. Its understood. There’s a vacuum that created when Janjalani died. Sooner or later they are going to regain and in fact may become more idealistic in modalities. And people in these areas where they operate are gullible to propaganda and therefore they are going to gain more followers. There is a saying that if they lost 10 today, next month they would become 30. Another, the MNLF fighters are still around. The GRP-MNLF peace agreement was a failure. These fighters can join the ASG anytime.
Mainichi Shimbun: What was the significance of these development to the islamic movement in Southeast Asia region if there is?
Dinampo: The Philippine and US government are trying to create local armed conflict…liberation movement into a global perspective. They are thinking that this local ASG is linked to Al Qaeda, link to jemaah Islamiyah and to any terrorist organization in the world. There were some informal compacts with Dulmatin or Patek or the 6 million pesos donation by Khalifa to Janjalani for helping him in recruiting mujahideen fighters for Afghanistan but there is no formal relations there or there was no continuum basis.
The ASG is movement which we call locally as Al Harakatul Al Islamiya is locally grown organization that starts as a reaction to the ongoing operation against the Bangsamoro people. So they created and established this Islamic movement Al Harakatul Al Islamiya. They never created this so-called ASG. This ASG is created by the Philippine military. Khaddafy Janjalani has revealed that the ASG is an infiltrating scheme of the military to penetrate the islamic movement.
I don’t categorically say they are terrorist organization. I don’t agree. If Dulmatin and Patek are with them its only incidental because they are being hunted by the US. It is a tradition among mujahideen fighters to extend help to their fellow mujahideen who are in need of help. But it does not mean they are already linked. This is my own reading and my own analysis towards the situation there. We are talking here of the Al Harakatul Al Islamiya. ##
In that Friday evening interview, Dinampo said Sahiron “wants to be alone with his God.”
Sahiron, who lives constantly in the mountains of Sulu, has spent more of his time in prayers and even joked that when he was an MNLF fighter they fought for independence in Mindanao and then an independent Sulu.
But now Sahiron demands for an independent municipality of Indanan, exclusive only to Muslims and free of any elements from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, Dinampo said.
Sahiron even expressed to Dinampo his willingness to negotiate with the Philippine government for a peaceful settlement but the Philippine government is unwilling. Though it was expressed in jest, this can be pursued, Dinampo concluded.
With regards to the group’s relations with the so-called Jemaah Islamiyah movement, Sahiron admitted to Dinampo that they at one time allowed Patek and Dulmatin to be among them but only in premise that they were fellow mujahideens who were hiding from the United States operatives.
After which, the two personalities were on their own due to the fact that the Philippine military were intense on them and the group does not want to be part of it.
Of course, the Mainichi Shimbun, in its desire to report facts, asks Mr. Dinampo to see us through the mists of myths covering this group. Dinampo explained that a team of ABS-CBN has made the request on him many months ago to interview Sahiron in person and that he may have to prioritized them first.
When the news came to happen on February 8, Sunday, I wondered how it came to happen to the professor and the news team. Dinampo has successfully intervened in minor and major similar incidents in Sulu because of his reputation as peace advocate and most of all his being a Tausug.
Does Mr. Dinampo and the ABS-CBN News team knew they were kidnapped? Or were they doing this for a publicity stunt for his book and for her suspenseful broadcast of her story?
If indeed they were kidnapped, are the perpetrators really the real Janjalani inspired ASG or done by private armed men serving for some political warlords in those islands and using the name of the ASG?
Or, were they private armed men serving political warlords and connived with the ASG for tactical and monetary purposes?
Professor Dinampo is organic in Sulu. He had lost seven of his brothers and close relatives in the war in the name of independent Mindanao. He is a teacher at the Mindanao State University in Sulu. He had worked his way to the top and earned his good name in civil societies both here and abroad. He was invited to so many social ceremonies in Sulu. He is invited by non-government organizations as resource persons in various forum. He has ten children who lives in this island. He is fifty years old. He knew very well the answers.
So, professor, are the ASG bandits, rebels or heroes of the Bangsamoro people?
In the Star article, one cannot find some words from the released camera man. Its plain and simple, They dont want to lose the ransom. Both sides. The driver earlier inadvertently mentioned of the military perpetuating the kidnapping. So they have to send the cameramen supposedly a more credible source of information to negate the report. Of course, there’s the debriefing before anything else. Every angle should fit to a T.
What pisses me off now is that the Gloria Dogs are so hungry for good publicity & it seems that they are doing EVERYTHING to steal the limelight just to prove that they are ones who should get credit for the release of Mr Valderama, & hopefully of Ces & the rest.
Gloria’s ego won’t be able to take it if the credit will go to ABS CBN. We can’t really blame ABS CBN for not wanting Gloria’s Dogs to interfere with the negotiations. The ransom might sky rocket !
The ASG,MILF,MNLF and NPAs are the justifications of anti-terrorism aids coming to the evil bitches’ treasury. Of course these kidnappings kuno (some may be staged) are part of the whole charade.
In Allan’s article above, Prof Dinampo seem to be a respected figure by the ASG. They should not hurt him. The ASG is probably just using him to address their issues, that they too just like the other rebel groups like peace in Mindanao.
But in the same article, the military comes in. So, ayaw mapahiya siempre ng military and they will do the best they can to recover Ces and company. But since the ASG are seen as the “terrorist and rebels” by this administration, a big fight may ensue if the military will recover Ces and company by force. I hope cool heads will prevail. I am praying that indeed this is just a chapter in the professor’s book, that they (the professor, Ces and company) are not held against their will and that they are indeed in a safe place but just completing an ASG related story. Sana nga. It is possible that ABS-CBN knows the real story but because they do not trust the evil bitch and her military attack dogs, they are just keeping Ces ang company as far as they can from the military. Para hindi na rin sila pagkaperahan pa! So many angles, so many players but our prayers are always for the safe return of Ces and company. Kung hindi makikialam si evil bitch at ng kanyang mga attack dogs, baka nga Ces and company will be released unharmed. Pwera na lang kung gustong makisawsaw ang mga “aso” ni evil bitch.
Oo nga Chabeli, kung makikialam ang “dogs” ni evil bitch, katakot takot na “tongpats” na naman yan!
Kanya kanyang pagkakakitaan dahil sa hirap ng buhay!
Kung ang ibabayad ng ABS-CBN ay directly given to the group and as long as the monies are used to help uplift the lives of the people( schools, housing etc…) and not to arm themselves to do more damage to other civilians, okay lang ako na magbigay ang ABS-CBN ng pera. Call it “research fees” dahil invaluable naman ang information na makukuha nila Ces. At least hindi na makikinabang ang mga “aso” ni evil bitch!
Wow! The government says they paid 2 million for the release of Valderrama but the vice mayor says she only paid 100,000 from her own money. Ang laki ng “tongpats”!
So, where did the P1.9 million go?