Posted by Michael Hull on August 29, 19100 at 20:22:30:
See "Strange Links" at
http://hometown.aol.com/bardonia/strange.htm
and "From Dublin to Oklahoma City" at
http://members.aol.com/bardonia2/oklahoma.htm
to understand how this group in the Phillipines is linked to the World Trade Center, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and TWA 800.
Regards
Michael Hull
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August 29, 2000 Reuters
Muslim rebels have kidnapped a 24-year-old American in the southern Philippines and the guerrillas said Tuesday they would kill him if three Islamic extremists held in the United States were not freed. Robert Aventajado, the Philippine government's chief hostage negotiator, told Reuters the man was kidnapped in the city of Zamboanga Monday and taken to the island of Jolo, where the Abu Sayyaf guerrillas have been holding six Europeans captive for months. Local officials in Zamboanga said a U.S. citizen who had been living in the city since March was missing and
identified him as Jeffery Edwards Craig Schilling from Oakland, California. His wife, a Filipina, said Schilling was abducted after the couple went to
Jolo on a visit. "It is confirmed,'' Aventajado said of reports of the kidnap. "He was brought to the camp of Radulan yesterday afternoon.'' Radulan is one of several commanders of the Abu Sayyaf guerrillas based on Jolo, where the rebels have hideouts in the hills and where they hold six Europeans and a Filipino hostage. Ivy Osani, a local Muslim woman who said she was married to Schilling in April, said she and her husband went to Jolo of their own volition to meet an Abu Sayyaf leader she was related to. "But when we
were there, the atmosphere changed,'' she told a local radio station. ``I don't know why.'' "They did not hurt him,'' she added. ``They did not hurt us when I was still there. I don't know now.'' Osani said she returned to Zamboanga Tuesday. A rebel spokesman told a radio station that guerrilla leaders were meeting to discuss their demands for freeing Schilling, who he
said was a CIA agent. But the caller said one demand would be the release of three Muslim militants jailed for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. "If the U.S. government and (Philippine President Joseph) Estrada does not (intervene) here, we may liquidate this man,'' the caller said. "Then next week we will get another hostage and do the same thing to him. The Americans may think we are afraid of them but we are really determined to get an American.'' The Abu Sayyaf demanded the release of those jailed in the World Trade Center bombing after kidnapping more than 70 children and teachers in March from two high schools on the island of Basilan, near Zamboanga. The government did not accept the demands and the military attacked their Basilan camp after the rebels beheaded two adult captives. Most of the hostages were released or rescued but at least four
were killed in a shoot-out between the rebels and troops.