{"id":26896,"date":"2014-09-26T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T05:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26896"},"modified":"2014-09-26T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T14:50:07","slug":"we-do-not-negotiate-with-terrorists-defense-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/26\/we-do-not-negotiate-with-terrorists-defense-sec\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We do not negotiate with terrorists\u2019 \u2013 Defense Sec."},"content":{"rendered":"

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MANILA \u2013 Despite Abu Sayyaf\u2019s recent threat to behead one of the two German hostages, the government remains firm that they will not make any negotiations.<\/p>\n

Asked about the P250-million ransom requested by the group in exchange for the two Germans\u2019 freedom, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said the government will not entertain any calls for negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not negotiate with terrorists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On earlier reports, the Abu Sayyaf warned that it will \u00a0carry out its threat in 15 days.<\/p>\n

This is unless ransom is paid and Berlin stops support for the US-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the Abu Sayyaf is doing is like propaganda, so that the government will give in to their demands. We will not be intimidated by these gestures and actions,\u201d he said in a separate radio interview, adding that the group has weakened and is contained in small areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey saw what the ISIS has been doing, so they used that to increase the ransom,\u201d Gazmin said, in reaction to the photos released by SITE showing a masked militant with a machete beside a gray-haired Caucasian man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  MANILA \u2013 Despite Abu Sayyaf\u2019s recent threat to behead one of the two German hostages, the government remains firm …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[254,7028],"class_list":["post-26896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","tag-abu-sayyaf","tag-voltaire-gazmin","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}