{"id":99319,"date":"2017-04-21T04:11:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99319"},"modified":"2017-04-21T04:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:11:31","slug":"abu-sayyaf-stragglers-in-bohol-now-impotent-afp-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/21\/abu-sayyaf-stragglers-in-bohol-now-impotent-afp-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Sayyaf stragglers in Bohol now impotent: AFP chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83504\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Major-General-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83504\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Major-General-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"The remaining Abu Sayyaf bandits in Bohol no longer have the capability to conduct kidnappings or other atrocities, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o said in an interview late Thursday.  (Photo by Gil Nartea \/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Major-General-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-1-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Major-General-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-1-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Major-General-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-1-1-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Major-General-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-1-1-1024x535.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remaining Abu Sayyaf bandits in Bohol no longer have the capability to conduct kidnappings or other atrocities, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o said in an interview late Thursday. (Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mb.com.ph\/2016\/12\/07\/afp-names-lt-gen-eduardo-ano-as-new-chief-of-staff\/\">Gil Nartea \/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The remaining Abu Sayyaf bandits in Bohol no longer have the capability to conduct kidnappings or other atrocities, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o said in an interview late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are running for their lives, especially the wounded ones. Sooner or later, we will spot them and arrest or neutralize them,&#8221; A\u00f1o said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;additional actions&#8221; are being undertaken to ensure the neutralization of the remaining bandits.<\/p>\n<p>About seven Abu Sayyaf members, survivors of the botched incursion in the province&#8217;s Inabanga town, are being hunted by authorities as of this posting.<\/p>\n<p>In the April 11 clash with government forces in Sitio Ilaya, Barangay Napo, their leader Muanmar Askali alias &#8220;Abu Rami&#8221; was killed, along with three other bandits, three soldiers, a police officer and an elderly couple.<\/p>\n<p>As this develops, A\u00f1o said the PHP1-million-per-head reward offer of President Rodrigo Duterte to anyone who could give the exact location and whereabouts of the remaining bandits in Bohol, is a useful incentive for the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That will facilitate the arrest or surrender of the remaining terrorists who are now still in Inabanga and in hiding, trying to evade security forces hunting them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the reward, interested parties only need to provide the information on the bandits&#8217; whereabouts &#8212; no questions asked, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time, this loathsome band of criminals will not just be hounded by sniffing dogs of the AFP but also by the local residents who will be a million peso or more richer by merely providing information leading to the neutralization of the former,&#8221; A\u00f1o stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The remaining Abu Sayyaf bandits in Bohol no longer have the capability to conduct kidnappings or other atrocities, Armed Forces &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":83504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[3244,12727],"class_list":["post-99319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","tag-eduardo-ano","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99319","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=99319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}