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                    [Title] => Pentagon kidnap gang leader dead - AFP
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Tahir Alonto, the leader of the notorious Pentagon kidnap and extortion gang based in Central Mindanao, is dead.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 149504 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Not so fast [Summary] => In some parts of Mindanao, here’s the version of making hay while the sun shines: Kidnap, murder and sow terror while you can. When you’ve raised enough funds and have had your fill of adventure and excitement, make sure you can keep your loot for your retirement. [DatePublished] => 2002-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 149514 [Title] => ‘Be cautious on Pentagon man’s surrender feelers’ [Summary] => The Armed Forces warned the government yesterday against accepting the surrender feelers of a leader of the "Pentagon" kidnap-for-ransom gang accused of abducting Italian priest Giuseppe Pierantoni and other people in Mindanao.

This, as Interior and Local Government Secretary Jose Lina confirmed that the Pentagon leader, indeed, sent a letter to President Arroyo dated Jan. [DatePublished] => 2002-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147816 [Title] => Matillano wants anti-kidnap task force disbanded [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Chief Superintendent Eduardo Matillano, Southern Mindanao police director, called yesterday for the disbandment of a police anti-kidnapping task force created last month to go after the Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang in Central Mindanao.

Matillano fears that the so-called "Sanlahi" task force may become another Kuratong Baleleng or Red Scorpion which, he said, both started out as "intelligence projects" used by some Philippine National Police officers but which became "monsters."
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147612 [Title] => Police official tagged kidnap gang protector [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Some of the 16 arrested suspects in the recent abduction of a daughter of a vehicle manufacturer identified a police superintendent yesterday as a "protector" of a kidnap-for-ransom gang operating in Southern Mindanao.

The police official, a certain Willy Marohomsar Dangani, reportedly heads a task force assigned to go after the Pentagon syndicate in Region 12.
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"The priest is nowhere to be found now in Lanao del Sur. There are persistent stories circulating now that he has died of an illness," said Faisal Marohomsar, who carries a P1-million prize on his head.
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While abductions were pulled off in the region in the 1960s, kidnappings only became rampant following the trend set by Commander Mubarak, leader of the National Security Command, an elite MNLF combat unit.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 138878 [Title] => ‘Pentagon’ misleading G-2 on priest’s location [Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — Armed men, believed to be members of the Pentagon kidnap gang, have reportedly been creating continuing simultaneous diversions in at least three coastal towns in Lanao del Sur to confuse intelligence agents gathering information on the whereabouts of Fr. Guiseppi Piarantoni.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 138535 [Title] => Palace clears MILF in kidnap [Summary] => Malacañang cleared the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) yesterday of any complicity in the abduction of Italian priest Giuseppi Pierantoni in Zamboanga del Sur.

"They (the MILF) does not really allow such a (kidnapping)," said Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Eduardo Ermita, adding that the government has no reason to suspect that the MILF was clandestinely supporting the "Pentagon gang" which was behind the abduction.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1497187 [AuthorName] => Marichu Villanueva and John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86690 [Title] => Kidnap charges filed vs two sons of M’guindanao mayor [Summary] => KIDAPAWAN CITY — The North Cotabato provincial government filed kidnapping charges the other day against two sons of a Maguindanao mayor for allegedly masterminding last month’s abduction of a Chinese manager of the contractor of a foreign-funded irrigation project in the province.

North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, chairman of the crisis committee working out the release of engineer Zhang Zhong Quiang, identified those charged as brothers Kaotin and Andi Montawal, sons of Datu Janggo Montawal, mayor of Pagalungan, Maguinda-nao.
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                    [Title] => Pentagon kidnap gang leader dead - AFP
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Tahir Alonto, the leader of the notorious Pentagon kidnap and extortion gang based in Central Mindanao, is dead.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 149504 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Not so fast [Summary] => In some parts of Mindanao, here’s the version of making hay while the sun shines: Kidnap, murder and sow terror while you can. When you’ve raised enough funds and have had your fill of adventure and excitement, make sure you can keep your loot for your retirement. [DatePublished] => 2002-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 149514 [Title] => ‘Be cautious on Pentagon man’s surrender feelers’ [Summary] => The Armed Forces warned the government yesterday against accepting the surrender feelers of a leader of the "Pentagon" kidnap-for-ransom gang accused of abducting Italian priest Giuseppe Pierantoni and other people in Mindanao.

This, as Interior and Local Government Secretary Jose Lina confirmed that the Pentagon leader, indeed, sent a letter to President Arroyo dated Jan. [DatePublished] => 2002-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147816 [Title] => Matillano wants anti-kidnap task force disbanded [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Chief Superintendent Eduardo Matillano, Southern Mindanao police director, called yesterday for the disbandment of a police anti-kidnapping task force created last month to go after the Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang in Central Mindanao.

Matillano fears that the so-called "Sanlahi" task force may become another Kuratong Baleleng or Red Scorpion which, he said, both started out as "intelligence projects" used by some Philippine National Police officers but which became "monsters."
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147612 [Title] => Police official tagged kidnap gang protector [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Some of the 16 arrested suspects in the recent abduction of a daughter of a vehicle manufacturer identified a police superintendent yesterday as a "protector" of a kidnap-for-ransom gang operating in Southern Mindanao.

The police official, a certain Willy Marohomsar Dangani, reportedly heads a task force assigned to go after the Pentagon syndicate in Region 12.
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"The priest is nowhere to be found now in Lanao del Sur. There are persistent stories circulating now that he has died of an illness," said Faisal Marohomsar, who carries a P1-million prize on his head.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 140275 [Title] => MNLF leader started kidnaps in Central Mindanao [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — A commander of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) started the kidnapping trend in Central Mindanao in 1990 and other armed groups joined the bandwagon when they found out that snatching people for ransom could bring them a lot of money.

While abductions were pulled off in the region in the 1960s, kidnappings only became rampant following the trend set by Commander Mubarak, leader of the National Security Command, an elite MNLF combat unit.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 138878 [Title] => ‘Pentagon’ misleading G-2 on priest’s location [Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — Armed men, believed to be members of the Pentagon kidnap gang, have reportedly been creating continuing simultaneous diversions in at least three coastal towns in Lanao del Sur to confuse intelligence agents gathering information on the whereabouts of Fr. Guiseppi Piarantoni.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 138535 [Title] => Palace clears MILF in kidnap [Summary] => Malacañang cleared the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) yesterday of any complicity in the abduction of Italian priest Giuseppi Pierantoni in Zamboanga del Sur.

"They (the MILF) does not really allow such a (kidnapping)," said Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Eduardo Ermita, adding that the government has no reason to suspect that the MILF was clandestinely supporting the "Pentagon gang" which was behind the abduction.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1497187 [AuthorName] => Marichu Villanueva and John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86690 [Title] => Kidnap charges filed vs two sons of M’guindanao mayor [Summary] => KIDAPAWAN CITY — The North Cotabato provincial government filed kidnapping charges the other day against two sons of a Maguindanao mayor for allegedly masterminding last month’s abduction of a Chinese manager of the contractor of a foreign-funded irrigation project in the province.

North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, chairman of the crisis committee working out the release of engineer Zhang Zhong Quiang, identified those charged as brothers Kaotin and Andi Montawal, sons of Datu Janggo Montawal, mayor of Pagalungan, Maguinda-nao.
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