Abu Sayyaf gunmen have freed two Filipino members of a Jordanian TV journalist’s crew believed to have been kidnapped by the al-Qaida-linked militants in June last year as they set out to interview the extremists in their jungle lairs in the southern Philippines, police said Sunday.
There are reports that Jordanian journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani was finally allowed to leave the Abu Sayyaf camp on Thursday but he decided to stay when the Islamist extremists would not release his two Filipino cameramen, a civil society organization leader said Friday.
MANILA, Philippines — Take your quotes and sound bytes on the abduction of Jordanian journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani and his two Filipino crew from Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, not from any one else. This was what Edwin Lacierda, President Benigno Aquino III’s spokesperson, said when sought for updates on the Atyani abduction case. Lacierda stressed [...]
Police and military authorities in Western Mindanao insisted Saturday that Jordanian TV journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani and his Filipino crew have not been kidnapped.
An official of the Moro National Liberation Front in Sulu decried Thursday a claim by the local police that a senior MNLF leader as among the people allegedly holding Jordanian TV journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani and his Filipino crew.
President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday said a Jordanian journalist would be asked to explain why he should not be banned from entering the country again for interviewing Abu Sayyaf bandits without informing local authorities.
Jordanian journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani did not violate Philippine laws even if he failed to coordinate with Philippine authorities on his trip to Sulu, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said Wednesday.
The heat is now on Jordanian journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani. Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo said here on Wednesday that he wants Atyani banned from coming into the country again after the latter set out to Jolo to interview the terror group Abu Sayyaf without informing the government.
Veteran Jordanian TV journalist Baker Atyani and his Filipino crew – Ramelito Vela and Rolando Letrero – are most likely not being held hostage after all, even though they are in the company of Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sulu, Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo said Tuesday.
After first denying that Jordanian TV journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani and his two Filipino crew were missing, then admitting that the three were in the custody of the Abu Sayyaf, government officials here now say the Al Arabiya newsman could be a conduit to the al-Qaeda international terrorist network.
Middle Eastern TV journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani “deceived” Sulu Gov. Sakur Tan about his itinerary on the day he and his two Filipino crewmen went missing in Jolo, the governor told Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo.
There will be no search and rescue operations for Middle Eastern journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani and his two Filipino crewmembers for now as police consider them to be “just missing.”
