Friday, May 08, 2009

Jihadists holding Red Cross worker murder police chief

Jihad Watch

If the jihad is all about Israel, and resistance to it is all about racism, then why are jihadists in the Philippines kidnapping Red Cross workers and murdering police chiefs? "Al Qaida-linked militants holding Red Cross worker kill police chief," from Gulfnews, May 7 (thanks to Sr. Soph):

Manila: Al Qaida-linked militants holding a kidnapped Italian Red Cross worker killed a southern Philippine provincial police chief and at least three other people in an ambush on Thursday, officials said.

Sulu provincial police chief Julasirim Kasim, his brother and at least two officers were gunned down by Abu Sayyaf militants on Jolo island, police said.

Four others were wounded as officers pursuing the attackers clashed with the gunmen, killing five of them and recovering their weapons.

Kasim and the other officers were taking part in an ongoing operation to rescue Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni of Italy.

Vagni is the last of three Red Cross hostages still in the hands of the militants. They were kidnapped January 15.

Alain Aeschlimann, the Asia-Pacific operations chief of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said that Vagni was able to call his family last week.

"As ever, we remain very worried about Eugenio," he said in a statement last week. "We will spare no effort until Eugenio is free and the crisis resolved."

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