Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4508-1014531867-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:32:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17443 invoked by uid 510); 24 Feb 2002 06:32:19 -0000 Received: from n30.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.80) by all.net with SMTP; 24 Feb 2002 06:32:19 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4508-1014531867-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.166] by n30.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Feb 2002 06:24:27 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 24 Feb 2002 06:24:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 31259 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2002 06:24:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Feb 2002 06:24:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2002 06:24:25 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g1O6MTd13548 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:22:29 -0800 Message-Id: <200202240622.g1O6MTd13548@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:22:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:(Philippines).Gov't.releases.video.of.Abu.Sayyaf.beheadings.AFP.|.10:35] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Philippines) Gov't releases video of Abu Sayyaf beheadings AFP | 10:35 AM (Manila Time) | Feb. 19, 2002 | Jason Gutierrez THE PHILIPPINE government has released gory video footage of Muslim gunmen beheading captured Filipino soldiers in a move meant to quash opposition to joint US operations to crush the kidnap gang. Aired over at least two leading television networks late Monday, the footage shows Abu Sayyaf gunmen armed with machetes questioning a soldier, his hands tied and kneeling on the ground. The soldier was asked to pray as a rebel later approached from behind, and with one swift swing, chopped off the man's head. Another wounded soldier sprawled on the ground was also beheaded, as cameraman barked instructions. Press Undersecretary Roberto Capco said the amateurish videotape was recovered by troops after overrunning an Abu Sayyaf camp in Basilan Island, where the gunmen are still holding hostage a US Christian missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham and a Filipina nurse. The videotape, which includes scenes shot way back in 1994, has been in the custody of the government in the past several years, Capco said. Initial reaction to the footage in this largely Roman Catholic nation was of shock but Capco said the government decided to release the tape in a bid to quell opposition to the joint US-Philippine operations against the Abu Sayyaf. The exercises launched last month against the group, linked by both governments to the al-Qaeda terror network of Osama bin Laden, involves some 660 US troops, some of whom would be deployed in batches over the next several months in Basilan. While independent surveys show there is widespread public support for the exercises, some sectors, including opposition senators and leftwing groups, have criticized it as another form of colonization. "There was an encounter between the Abu Sayyaf and the soldiers in Basilan, and it so happened they captured several soldiers. There is one portion there showing the Abu Sayyaf finishing off a nearly dead soldier by chopping off his head," Capco said over DZRH radio. "The tape was recovered by our military in one raid in an Abu Sayyaf camp," he said, but did not give details. Experts who analyzed the footage said it was taken by a camera system used largely in Europe and the Middle East, Capco said. The footage was apparently meant as a propaganda material by the Abu Sayyaf to show their "sponsors abroad that they are winning against our military," he said. "We are studying if this evidence can prove that the al-Qaeda helped the Abu Sayyaf." Beheading captives is a "terror trademark" of the Abu Sayyaf, a group founded in the early 1990s and which means "Bearer of the Sword." Among their recent victims were Californian Guillermo Sobero and 14 Filipino mostly Christian farmers seized in a kidnapping spree last year. Sobero's decapitated head was found in a shallow grave in a Basilan jungle. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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