Government troops arrested on Tuesday night a suspected sub-leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Zamboanga Sibugay.
Lt. Col. Audie Mongao, public affairs officer of the military's 1st Infantry Division, identified the suspect as Ibni Acosta.
Mongao said joint joint elements from the military and the police arrested Acosta in barangay Poblacion, Tungawan town at 10:26 p.m.
Mongao said Acosta has a warrant of arrest for 21 counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention before the Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 162.
The case is in relation to the kidnapping of 21 people, mostly foreigners, from the Sipadan diving resort in Malaysia in April 2000.
The captives were released by the bandits after the alleged payment of the ransom demand.
The military believes the Abu Sayyaf Group is holding at least nine kidnap victims, including foreigners.
Last week, two Philippine Coast Guard personnel Gringo Villaruz and Rod Pagaling escaped from their Abu Sayyaf captors while the bandits were engaged in a gunfight with pursuing military troops in Sulu.
Their escape came a week after another Abu Sayyaf captive -- village chairman Rodolfo Buligao -- was found beheaded.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/534433/news/regions/abu-sayyaf-sub-leader-falls-in-sulu
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