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March 4, 2002
   

On Basilan, the army caught a senior Abu Sayyaf leader (Sonny Ping) and his four bodyguards. The man had a $20,000 reward on his head. Elsewhere, an army patrol clashed with MILF renegade kidnappers, leaving one soldier dead and two wounded.