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                    [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguin-danao — Suspected members of the notorious Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang snatched a businesswoman in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat last Thursday, breaking a three month-lull in abductions in Central Mindanao. 


Maj. Onting Alon, deputy spokesman of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said the victim, Suela Cansi, 50, who owns a store at the town proper of Lambayong, was seized at gunpoint by five men, who forced her into a waiting red car which sped off toward the nearby Maguindanao town of S.K. Pendatun. 


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                    [Title] => Woman freed by Pentagon  captors
                    [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang freed yesterday a woman it seized in SK Pendatun, Maguindanao, a military spokesman said.


An unspecified sum was reportedly paid as ransom for the release of Roxas Dacil, 47, but her family denied this.


Lt. Col. Fredesvindo Covarrubias, chief of the 4th Civil Relations Group, said Dacil was released after three days of captivity by the group of Commander Usop Hadj Abas, a leader of the Pentagon gang, in SK Pendatun town.


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                    [Title] => Pentagon kidnaps Maguindanao woman
                    [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — The military has intensified its hunt for members of the notorious Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang after they snatched an alleged female financier of an illegal two-digit numbers game in Maguindanao last Saturday.


Lt. Col. Fredesvindo Covar-rubias, chief of the 4th Civil Relations Group, said the victim, a certain Roxas Dacil, 47, was abducted by at least 40 fully armed men led by Usop Hadj Abas, one of the leaders of the Pentagon gang.


Covarrubias said there is no word if Dacil’s kidnappers have demanded ransom in exchange for her release.

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                    [Title] => MILF: Clashes could delay resumption of peace talks
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front spokesman Eid Kabalu claimed that MILF forces had killed five soldiers in an abandoned mosque in the town of Datu Piang, in Maguindanao province, early on Tuesday and that two others were being held as "prisoners of war." 


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Local officials confirmed the Pentagon gang members were killed during the two-hour fire fight with Army intelligence agents searching for Norman Sia, a car trader abducted by the group in Cotabato City last week.


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                    [Title] => 7 kidnaper todas sa militar
                    [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao  – Pitong kilabot na miyembro ng Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang ang iniulat na napatay samantalang walo naman ang nasugatan matapos ang dalawang oras na barilan at bombahin ng OV-10 bombers ang pinagkukutaan ng mga kidnaper ng Tsinoy trader sa kagubatan ng Cotabato City kahapon.
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                    [Title] => Islamic clerics ‘excommunicate’ Cotabato car dealer’s abductors
                    [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — In an unprecedented move, local Islamic clerics handed down a fatwah (judgment) the other day, "excommunicating" the kidnappers of a car dealer snatched here early last week.
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                    [Title] => Trader’s abductors demand P10-M
                    [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Kidnappers have demanded a P10-million ransom in exchange for the release of a Chinese-Filipino car dealer snatched here last Monday. 


But the relatives of kidnap victim Norman Sia, 24, said they could not afford to raise such an amount, adding that Sia was just an ordinary car agent who earned minimal commissions from his deals. 


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                    [Summary] => COTABATO CITY – Aabot sa P10 milyong ransom ang iniulat na hinihinggi ng mga kidnaper ng isang 24-anyos na Tsinoy car dealer na kasalukuyang itinatago sa hangganan ng Maguindanao at Sultan Kudarat simula pa noong Lunes ng hapon.


Ayon sa pamilya nang dinukot na si Norman Sia na wala silang ganoong kalaking halaga dahil sa ordinaryong car agent lang ang biktima.


Kinumpirma naman ni Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema na ang biktima ay nasa kamay na ng notoryus na Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom gang.


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Maj. Onting Alon, deputy spokesman of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said the victim, Suela Cansi, 50, who owns a store at the town proper of Lambayong, was seized at gunpoint by five men, who forced her into a waiting red car which sped off toward the nearby Maguindanao town of S.K. Pendatun. 


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An unspecified sum was reportedly paid as ransom for the release of Roxas Dacil, 47, but her family denied this.


Lt. Col. Fredesvindo Covarrubias, chief of the 4th Civil Relations Group, said Dacil was released after three days of captivity by the group of Commander Usop Hadj Abas, a leader of the Pentagon gang, in SK Pendatun town.


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Lt. Col. Fredesvindo Covar-rubias, chief of the 4th Civil Relations Group, said the victim, a certain Roxas Dacil, 47, was abducted by at least 40 fully armed men led by Usop Hadj Abas, one of the leaders of the Pentagon gang.


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Ayon sa pamilya nang dinukot na si Norman Sia na wala silang ganoong kalaking halaga dahil sa ordinaryong car agent lang ang biktima.


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