Philippines rebels free hostage

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Islamic rebels in the Philippines free a Swiss Red Cross worker who had been held hostage for three months.

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pMANILA (strongXinhua/strong) -- Abu Sayyaf rebels released the second of three kidnapped Red Cross workers Saturday morning held captive in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, the military said today./ppstrongUPDATE:/strong a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=458817amp;publicationSubCategoryId=200"Notter undergoing debriefing and medical checkup -- AFP/aspan style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" |/span a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=458816amp;publicationSubCategoryId=200"Gov't welcomes release of Notter/a/p

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Always good to read of a happy conclusionSouthern Pinas seems to be almost overtaking Colombia in the Kidnap stakes,I was down in Zambo a few weeks ago having been invited to a MRDP meeting for sulu&Jolo mayors and the movers and shakers of the area,got a few open invites to visit and had I the time then maybe I would have taken them up on the offer,the area itself is incredible,superb unspoilt beaches,fantastic Robinson Crusoe islands,but is topping up the perma-tan worth starring in my own online video dressed guantanamo style in a rather fetching orange jumpsuit as some friendly masked guys behind me recite passages from the Koran?Methinks not,ugly as my head is I have grown quite attached to it over the yearsI personally knew a guy who was kidnapped in S.E.Asia,for him there wasnt a happy conclusion,I was also in Kashmir shortly after Keith Mangan and Paul Wells were taken by a faction,I guess personal safety cant be taken too lightly,look at the pic,private Bodyguards in Sulu,theres a reason they were packing so much hardware