Senior Abu Sayyaf Guerrilla Is Arrested
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Philippine police arrested a senior member of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group suspected in the 2001 abduction of three Americans and 17 Filipinos, officials said.
Otto Hapikin was captured at his hide-out on Basilan island, where the Abu Sayyaf took the hostages after raiding the Dos Palmas resort in Palawan province, said Arturo Lomibao of the national police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
The guerrillas beheaded American Guillermo Sobero, and missionary Martin Burnham was killed during a military rescue a year later in which his wife, Gracia, was wounded.
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