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Southern Command (Southcom) chief Lt. Gen. Narciso Abaya flew to Basilan island to personally preside over the opening ceremony for the 25-room hospital in Lamitan town. 


The chief of the US Special Operations command in the Pacific, Brig. Gen. Donald Wurster, was to have flown to Basilan to attend the ceremonies but was canceled. 


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An American couple and a Filipino nurse are the last of several batches of captives seized from May 27 last year.


May 27, 2001: Abu Sayyaf gunmen raid the Dos Palmas island resort, seize 20 hostages including US missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham from Kansas and Peru-born Californian Guillermo Sobero, and flee by boat to their Basilan island stronghold.


President Arroyo rules out ransom and orders the military to rescue the captives.


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The hostage crisis is on its seventh week with some 5,000 government troops involved in the operation to flush out the rebels holding the captives in a forested mountain in Basilan. 


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CALIFORNIAN GUILLERMO SOBERO

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US troops turn over renovated Basilan hospital to RP officials

January 20, 2003 - 12:00am

ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — A government hospital renovated by US troops in the southern Philippines was officially turned over yesterday to local authorities in the rebel-plagued Basilan island, the military said....

Headlines

Chronology of Abu Sayyaf hostage crisis

May 27, 2002 - 12:00am

A chronology of the Abu Sayyaf hostage crisis in the southern Philippines which enters its second year today: An American couple and a Filipino nurse are the last of several batches of captives seized from May 27...

Headlines

Rescue operation tough — Blair

July 14, 2001 - 12:00am

The commander of US forces in the Pacific described yesterday as "tough" a military assault in Basilan to rescue 21 hostages, including at least two Americans, from the Abu Sayyaf. The hostage crisis is...

Headlines