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MISUARI TO MEET EMISSARY OF KIDNAPPERS TOMORROW KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 (Bernama) -- Nur Misuari, who was given the mandate
to negotiate with the armed group which kidnapped 21 people in Sipadan island off Sabah
last Sunday, will meet the emissary of the kidnappers tomorrow morning.
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) information chief Ibrahim Omar said Misuari was now
in Zamboanga City and would hold a meeting with the commanders of the various MNLF units.
Misuari, who is also Governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) had been
mandated by President Joseph Estrada to establish contact and negotiate with the
kidnappers to ensure that the captives are released unharmed.
Ibrahim told Bernama when contacts in Manila tonight that at the moment, the two MNLF
military officers who had made contact with the armed group were still negotiating with
the kidnappers.
In last Sunday's incident, six men armed with AK-47 rifles and a bazooka kidnapped 10
Malaysians, three Germans, two French nationals, two Finns, two South Africans, a Lebanese
and a Filipino.
Asked if any of the captives had been released, he said that according to the latest
information given by the two military officers, none of them had been released.
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