Christian beheaded by muslims!

[Dakine 26]

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Polit...=3.0.3211386760

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The actual story:

Manila, 13 April (AKI) - Suspected Muslim militants have beheaded one of two hostages captured last week in a raid on a Christian community in the southern Philippines, the military said on Monday.

Marines spokesman Capt. Neil Estrella said the body of Cosme Aballes was recovered Sunday by soldiers who are pursuing members of the militant separatist Abu Sayyaf group.

"He was nearly beheaded. His head and his body is joined merely by the skin," Estrella said.

Aballes and Ernan Chavez were reportedly taken by at least 40 Abu Sayyaf and rogue members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front when the militants raided the village of Upper Arco in Basilan Province on Friday. Chavez is still being held captive.

Meanwhile the chief of the Red Cross in the Philippines, Richard J. Gordon, has renewed his appeal for the release of two foreign aid workers being held by Muslim militants in the south of the country.

Gordon, a senator and chairman of the local Red Cross, asked for prayers of support for his colleagues in an Easter message.

Italian Eugenio Vagni and his Swiss colleague Andreas Notter were kidnapped on the southern Philippine island of Jolo in mid-January by militants linked to the Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf.

They were seized with Red Cross co-worker Mary Jean Lacaba who has since been released.

"Let us also offer our earnest prayers and sacrifices for our two colleagues – Andreas Notter and Eugenio Vagni – so that they may draw strength from us as we draw ours from them not only for being a living testimony of service to humanity but also as an inspiration of steadfastness in sowing the seeds of hope," Gordon said.

Gordon on Thursday spoke to Abu Sayyaf leader Albader Parad, who said 62-year-old Vagni, was having difficulty walking.

The kidnappers have threatened to behead one of the hostages unless security forces surrounding their jungle stronghold withdraw.

Gordon was not available for comment on Monday but last week he said the army had still not withdrawn from the Jolo town of Parang and three villages - Pasil, Panabuan and Caday.

Pope Benedict XVI and the Italian and Swiss governments have appealed to Abu Sayyaf to spare the hostages' lives and called for their release.

The abduction of the Red Cross workers is the most high-profile kidnapping of foreign nationals since 2001, when two dozen tourists were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants from an island resort in the western Philippines.

[AngelSaint 0]

OMG!!!....please protect our brethren in Mindanao.

[almaty 19]

maybe, if you had a better less corrupt army they could do the protecting

[DEDixon 39]

maybe, if you had a better less corrupt army they could do the protecting

An army that doesn't sell them arms, that would be nice, but ya know, the Philippine Army needs to eat too.

[meowmeowmeow 1]

Are there reasons other than religion for these people to be fighting?

[Meriem_DZ 37]

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Polit...=3.0.3211386760

U should have wrote " Christian beheaded by bad people that claim to be Muslim!"

Meriem

[Nagishkaw 510]

[Beth/ Paris Heart 2]

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Polit...=3.0.3211386760

U should have wrote " Christian beheaded by bad people that claim to be Muslim!"

Meriem

Exactly Meriem!

[SaadBell 0]

This way of dying is on my top ten things I DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN TO ME EVER. Nasty, we humans love to cut off heads and we always find horrific ways to show our butts. What a waste of human life, this kind of violence sadly is universal, an equal opportunity employer. So saying it was a Muslim thing is a little miss leading, let me reword it, it is a crazy idiot human act, and it is shared equally with all of mankind.

[mawilson 2,133]

OMG!!!....please protect our brethren in Mindanao.

You protect them.

[mawilson 2,133]

So saying it was a Muslim thing is a little miss leading, let me reword it, it is a crazy idiot human act, and it is shared equally with all of mankind.

Denial, still?

It *is* a Muslim thing. I don't see Christians beheading people left and right.

[mawilson 2,133]

U should have wrote " Christian beheaded by bad people that claim to be Muslim!"

PC much?

Why is it that these so-called "bad people who behead other people" always tend to "claim to be" Muslim?

Why don't they claim to be Christians or Buddhists or atheists?

[jundp 191]

Are there reasons other than religion for these people to be fighting?

Aren't religion, money, and land generally at the root of all disputes?

So saying it was a Muslim thing is a little miss leading, let me reword it, it is a crazy idiot human act, and it is shared equally with all of mankind.

Denial, still?

It *is* a Muslim thing. I don't see Christians beheading people left and right.

Well, not since the Crusades anyway. We have our own atonement to make.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Hmmm I'm not touching this one with a 10 foot pole.