Abu Sayyaf wanted for kidnapping falls in Basilan
July 20, 2016 | 2:10pm
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - - Government security forces captured an Abu Sayyaf member suspected of involvement in mass abduction and a massacre in a raid in a village in Isabela City, Basilan Province on Monday.
The captured suspect -- identified as Adduri Aslain Suari, alias Titing Alpha -- has a standing warrant of arrest for eight counts of kidnapping issued by the Basilan court, said Chief Superintendent Billy Beltran, director of Police Regional Office 9.
The warrant against Suari stemmed from his alleged participation in the abduction of eight plantation workers in Barangay Tairan, Lantawan town in 2001 at the height of the Dos Palmas kidnapping incident.
Beltran said combined forces from the Special Action Force, Region Intelligence Division, Regional Public Safety Battalion, Isabela City Police and the Air Force's 304th Air Intelligence Service Group captured Suari about 9a.m in his safe house in Barangay Binuangan, Isabela City.
Based on the tactical interrogation and on intelligence dossiers, the suspect was also involved in a massacre in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay in 2005 and the ambush and subsequent massacre of 23 Marines in 2007.
The police said the suspect was positively identified by the victims of the Tairan kidnapping incident.
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