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Abu Sayyaf leader, Abu Sabaya, responsible for abducting dozens of hostages threatened yesterday to carry out more killings that could spread his violent separatist movement across Southeast Asia.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday vowed to continue military operations against the Abu Sayyaf in southern Basilan as the group continued to hold on to their 26 hostages deep in the island's jungles.

Police and military in the south have tightened security ahead of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's visit today to Basilan province, even as Philippine officials said they feared Muslim rebels had killed one of three American hostages they are holding along with more than 20 Filipinos.

Three Muslim rebels were killed in fresh clashes with soldiers in the southern Philippines hours before President Joseph Estrada suspended talks after police accused them of masterminding a wave of deadly bombings in Manila, officials said yesterday.