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Prisoner released to help free Filipino hostages
Yahoo/AP ^

Posted on 04/03/2011 3:31:20 AM PDT by nuconvert

MANILA, Philippines – A jailed tribal leader has been temporarily freed to help urge gunmen, including his relatives, to safely release 16 mostly grade school teachers in the latest high-profile hostage crisis to hit the Philippines in recent months, officials said Sunday.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hostages; jobertperez; manobo; philippines
trying to figure out how they did this...can you get 8 people in a morocycle taxi? Did they make 2 trips?
1 posted on 04/03/2011 3:31:27 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
"temporarily" releaed?

What did they do, attach a slinky to him? For the taxi, have you ever seen how much they load these things?


2 posted on 04/03/2011 4:05:05 AM PDT by mazda77 (Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
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To: mazda77
Whoops; releaed = released
3 posted on 04/03/2011 4:06:43 AM PDT by mazda77 (Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
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To: AlexW; Berosus; buwaya; knarf; ut1992

PI Ping


4 posted on 04/03/2011 5:04:59 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks nuconvert.
to help urge gunmen, including his relatives, to safely release 16 mostly grade school teachers
The Phillipines needs to get things over with and just clean out the Muzzie areas. And tell the world and the UN to go intercourse itself if it doesn't like it.


5 posted on 04/09/2011 7:31:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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