Quotes by Edilberto Adan

“Weve got a very big guy,”

“This is definitely a big catch,”

“The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There will be no negotiation or ransom with these kidnappers. By doing that we believe we will stop their motivation from some groups there in the south to do the same thing.”

“There are their followers who do not believe in the direction of the peace talks.”

“No new troops were added,”

“He appeared to have died on the night of June 11 after he was hog-tied and separated from the rest of the hostages.”

“We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages,”

“They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have launched pursuit operations,”

“All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place,”

“It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. Thats why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.”