{"id":16234,"date":"2016-06-14T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16234"},"modified":"2016-06-14T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T17:00:33","slug":"crusader-corner-abu-sayyaf-militants-in-philippines-behead-2nd-canadian-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/14\/crusader-corner-abu-sayyaf-militants-in-philippines-behead-2nd-canadian-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner: Abu Sayyaf Militants in Philippines Behead 2nd Canadian Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div id=\"divStory\">\n<div id=\"divStoryBody\">\n<div id=\"storyParagraphContainer\">\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16235\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/cc2.jpeg?w=620\" alt=\"CC2\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">Philippine officials confirmed Tuesday that Abu Sayyaf militants beheaded a Canadian man, the second Canadian hostage to be killed in two months after demands for a large ransom were not met. The hostage, Robert Hall, was abducted from a marina last September along with another Canadian, a Norwegian, and a Filipino. The other Canadian, former mining executive John Ridsdel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/224150\/militants-behead-canadian-hostage.html\">was beheaded in April<\/a>. A presidential spokesman condemned &#8220;the brutal and senseless murder&#8221; of Hall, who had been held by Abu Sayyaf in the jungles of southern Sulu province for nine months. &#8220;This latest heinous crime serves to strengthen our government&#8217;s resolve to put an end to this reign of terror and banditry,&#8221; the spokesman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">A militant video obtained by Philippine police officials and seen by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/article\/c32c727a9c7a4e58803fe2b4f7ec015d\/philippine-officials-confirm-canadian-hostage-was-beheaded.html\">AP<\/a> showed Hall in an orange shirt and kneeling in front of a black ISIS-style flag before he was killed in a jungle area. An Abu Sayyaf deadline for the payment of a large ransom lapsed Monday, and police later found a severed head of a Caucasian man outside a Catholic cathedral in Jolo, Sulu province&#8217;s main town. In Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there was &#8220;compelling reason to believe&#8221; that Hall had been killed by his captors. He said he was &#8220;horrified&#8221; by the killings and reaffirmed Canada&#8217;s refusal to pay ransoms. &#8220;The government of Canada will not and cannot pay ransoms for hostages to terrorist groups, as doing so would endanger the lives of more Canadians,&#8221; Trudeau said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/226617\/militants-behead-2nd-canadian-hostage.html?utm_source=8at8&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=1636015028280335117&amp;utm_campaign=20160614\">Newser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<aside><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine officials confirmed Tuesday that Abu Sayyaf militants beheaded a Canadian man, the second Canadian hostage to be killed in two months after demands for a large ransom were not met. The hostage, Robert Hall, was abducted from a marina last September along with another Canadian, a Norwegian, and a Filipino. 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