{"id":75391,"date":"2016-05-04T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75391"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:12:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:12:53","slug":"afp-condemns-latest-asg-video-threatening-behead-3-remaining-samal-island-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/04\/afp-condemns-latest-asg-video-threatening-behead-3-remaining-samal-island-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP condemns latest ASG video threatening to behead 3 remaining Samal Island hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75393\" style=\"width: 787px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Abu-Sayyaf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75393\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Abu-Sayyaf.png\" alt=\"A video circulating in the Internet shows Canadian Robert Hall, girlfriend Marites Flor, and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, flanked by masked ASG members, begging the Canadian and Philippine governments to comply with the bandits demand. (Screengrab of ASG's new video obtained by SITE, an extremist monitoring organization)\" width=\"787\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Abu-Sayyaf.png 787w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Abu-Sayyaf-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Abu-Sayyaf-768x413.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A video circulating in the Internet shows Canadian Robert Hall, girlfriend Marites Flor, and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, flanked by masked ASG members, begging the Canadian and Philippine governments to comply with the bandits demand.<br \/>(Screengrab of ASG&#8217;s new video obtained by SITE, an extremist monitoring organization)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesday condemned \u201cto the highest extremes\u201d the latest Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) video threatening to behead the three remaining Samal Island hostages if their ransom demands are not met soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condemn them to the highest extremes and your Armed Forces will continue to work to secure the safety of the hostages who still remain in the hands of these bandits,\u201d said AFP spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating in the Internet shows Canadian Robert Hall, girlfriend Marites Flor, and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, flanked by masked ASG members, begging the Canadian and Philippine governments to comply with the bandits demand.<\/p>\n<p>After the victims\u2019 appeal, an ASG representative, speaking in very good English, threatened to behead the three if their ransom demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p>The brigands are demanding a Php300 million from each of the remaining captives.<\/p>\n<p>Last April 25, Canadian John Ridsdel was beheaded after Canadian and Philippine authorities ignored the ASG ransom deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Ridsdel\u2019s head and torso were recovered separately by military authorities a few days later in Jolo, Sulu.<\/p>\n<p>All four were kidnapped by the bandits at a post Samal Island resort in Davao Oriental last Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not stopped, we have (no) let-up on ongoing operations and will not cease on doing this until we are able to make these personalities or these bandits and criminals accountable for their actions,\u201d Padilla said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is all I can say on the matter and as a matter of request again that I have mentioned a while ago, please help not to dignify the activities of these bandits and criminals,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesday condemned \u201cto the highest extremes\u201d the latest Abu Sayyaf &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16],"tags":[3243,7089,10609],"class_list":["post-75391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","tag-afp","tag-asg","tag-samal-island-hostages","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}