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Saturday, August 14, 2004 (Philippines)
| A clerk of court reads the verdict as security men guard a courthouse in Isabela, Basilan province, where Judge Danilo Bucoy meted three death sentences each to 17 members of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group. (Sun.Star Zamboanga/J. Fernandez) |
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ISABELA, Basilan -- Seventeen members of an extremist group linked to Al-Qaeda were sentenced to death by a Philippine court for kidnap and murder Friday, in Isabela, Basilan province.
The defendants, including four who were tried in absentia after a prison breakout in April, were allegedly all members of the Abu Sayyaf group.
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