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                    [Title] => Sayyaf threatens beheadings anew
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ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Abu Sayyaf fundamentalist group renewed its threat yesterday to behead the men among the 29 hostages it is holding in a mountain hideout after President Estrada rejected its demands.

The hostages would either "go home without their heads" or "only their heads would be sent home," said Abu Asmad Sallayuddin, spokesman for the Abu Sayyaf, now known as Al Harakatul Islamia.

In rejecting the terrorists' demands, President Estrada said he would not compromise with them and that their leaders should be taught a lesson.

Earlier, the Abu Sayyaf demanded the r [DatePublished] => 2000-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87598 [Title] => Rice for Sayyaf to open talks [Summary] =>

MALUGO, Basilan -- Government negotiators are set to deliver 185 sacks of rice to the Abu Sayyaf so negotiations can start for the release of 31 hostages.

Government negotiators had earlier brought with them 15 sacks of rice, 185 sacks fewer than what the Abu Sayyaf had demanded.

Abu Asmad Allyuddin, the group's spokesman, warned they would cut off negotiations and hold Vatican representative Fr. Nestor Banga and the ulamas (Muslim religious leaders) if the government does not make the delivery.

"We will hold Fr. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87493 [Title] => Abu Sayyaf frees 2 students as 'gesture of gratitude' [Summary] =>

ISABELA, Basilan -- Abu Sayyaf guerrillas freed two hostages yesterday after vigilantes released the pregnant wife and one-year-old daughter of their leader Khadaffy Janjalani.

But the group's spokesman Abu Asmad Salayuddin insisted that they had not swapped captives, but that it was a gesture of gratitude to the government-initiated Crisis Management Committee (CMC).

"We released a male and female student of Claret High School-Tumahubong after our meeting with the CMC," he said. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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