Philippine TV Reporting Team Kidnapped

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One of the Philippines' top TV reporters and her two assistants have been kidnapped. ABS-CBN network said on Wednesday that the team went missing on an island that is a hot spot of Islamic radicals linked to the al Qaeda.

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The country's largest television network said that broadcast journalist
Ces Drilon and cameramen Jimmy Encarnacion and Angelo Valderama have been kidnapped for ransom on Jolo island.

The crew has been missing since Sunday.

ABS-CBN News announced that it is doing everything it can to help the families of its kidnapped journalists, but it will abide by its policy not to pay ransom.

The network feels that paying ransom would embolden kidnap for ransom groups to abduct other journalists, thus putting more lives at risk.

ABS-CBN did not say who it believed was responsible for the abduction.
But the island of Jolo is used as a base by the Abu Sayyaf radicals, who are notorious for kidnapping for ransom.

[Rowena Paraan, National Union of Journalists in the Philippines]:
"Whatever the abductors stand for, whatever their goals are, there's absolutely no justification for seizing journalists whose sole concern is to seek out the truth and present this as accurately as possible. To them we say: please release Ces, Jimmy, Angelo, and Mr. Dinampo. Seizing them cannot in any way serve your ends and can only bring down condemnation on your heads."

In 2000, the Abu Sayyaf held about 20 people, mostly Western tourists
and Malaysian resort workers from nearby Sipadan island, for about three
months and freed them after more than $10 million U.S. dollars was paid for
their release.

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Uploaded: June 12, 2008 at 4:08 am
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Video Comments:
joe69rocket (June 25, 2009 at 6:45 am)
muslim terrorists suck! hope they go to hell and burn
AmingIna (June 15, 2009 at 11:25 pm)
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muslimin2 (April 5, 2009 at 3:47 pm)
ANG PILIPINAS AY NUMBER ONE SA LAHAT SA ASIA,CORRUPTIONS KINAPPING CRIMES DRUGS AT IBA PA ,PERO TINGNAN MO ANG MGA GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WALANG PAKIRAMDAM,AYAN NAKANGITIAN AT TAWANAN ,MASAYA SILA AT MALULUSOG ANG KATAWAN MAKIKITA NATIN SA T.V. HINDI BA? KULANG SILA NG HIYA PATRIOTIC FEELING AT LOVE OF COUNTRY,BASTA BUSOG SILA SA NAKAWN AYOS LANG.ang sarap ng buhay nila at kung may mga KIDNAPPING kunwari nandoon silang MAGPAPOGI AT MAKAPAKYUT SA TELEVISIONS AT para MAPANSIN NI PRESIDENTI GLORIA
muslimin2 (April 5, 2009 at 3:28 pm)
HINDI MAGTATAPOS ANG GULO AT KIDNAPPING SA PILIPINAS DAHIL PINAPAYAGAN NATIN BABABUYIN TAYO NG GOVERNMENT,HINDI TAYO NAGDEDEMAND NG RESINATION SA MGA INUTIL NA OFFICIALIST ITONG SI SATUR TAN ILAN BESES NA NANGYARI ITONG KIDNAPPING SA JOLO,hind na mabilang pero hayan laging nagBIBIDA at pakyutkyut sa T.V.KADUDADUDA KAYO SATUR.DAPAT may batas na ang town mayor at provincial governor are hold RESPONSIBLES FOR CRIMES COMMITED IN THEIR PLACE,hanggat sa mapapatuyan hindi sila PABAYA O KASANGKOT.
muslimin2 (April 5, 2009 at 2:55 pm)
Ang pilipinas is the only KIDNAPPING country in ASIA nakakahiya poro walang hiya ang government natin.PAANO HINDI GAGAWA NG MASAMA IYANG MGA MUSALIMS WALA GINAGAWA ANG GUBERTYENO MATAPOS MARELEASE ANG BIKTIMA AY tapos na rin ang istorya he he he walang follow up oraperations para matudas na iyan mga bandido ha ha si GORDON umiyak pa at humingi ng pasalmat sa kidnappers.ang kawawa tayong lahat dahil WATCH FOR NEXT PICTURES .IYAN KAINUTIL ANG GOVT.DAPAT MAGRESIGN SI GOV,SATUR TAN ang company
kelamajohn (March 15, 2009 at 8:11 am)
The United States should not support such a PATHETIC & CORRUPT Goverment! The politicians, and social elite live lavish, and opulent lifestyles, while the remaining 85% live in impoverished, and inhumane conditions. You want your sovereignty so bad...stop sticking your hand out to the United States for financial aid! End the blatant corruption, and you could be a self sufficient country with some dignity. I can understand why there are factions in Mindanao, who hate the the Government so much!
kelamajohn (March 15, 2009 at 7:54 am)
When you pay a ransom to the Abu Sayyaf, you are also paying the corrupt AFP Generals who are given a cut by the Abu Sayyaf. Ediborah Yap, Martin Burnham, and several others would be ALIVE TODAY, if it were not for the fact that corruption is "alive and well" in the Philippines. Nothing has changed in the Philippines, even after the departure of Marcos, and Martial Law. Human Right's Violations in the form of Extrajudicial Killings is still used by the Government to keep it's people oppressed!
stupidtas (February 11, 2009 at 2:18 am)
Hope that they will realize about this matter not just for the seek of there own self but to the younger ones who are the most affected on this situation.
stupidtas (February 11, 2009 at 2:18 am)
All I can say about this people who did this damn thing are all sick.! They didn't think that there fellow men might affected on what they done most especially the younger ones. The education might affected and if they act like that sooner no one will go there to offer a help. And one thing, that's why the red cross members been to there place is to HELP not to be KIDNAPPED.
hingigo (November 16, 2008 at 7:49 pm)
galing mo ces siguro sabog sabog na puke mo?

pinag papasahan ka ata ng mga abbu sayyaf eh hehehe