Freed Filipino hostage thought he’d die in captivity in Jolo jungle
By Julie S. Alipala
“We never thought we’d make it out alive.”
“We never thought we’d make it out alive.”
The military on Monday denied that the United States conducted a drone strike in 2006 in an attempt to kill Indonesian terrorist Omar Patek.
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.
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.”
A veteran Middle Eastern TV reporter who had interviewed Osama bin Laden months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has disappeared with his two Manila-based crewmen while on a reporting trip on Jolo island, officials said on Friday.
