A soldier takes cover amid fighting as he tries to free additional hostages in Lamitan from the Abu Sayyaf.
Laying his nets under the night sky, Brando Cervantes often gazed across the
waters at the golden lights of the exclusive Dos Palmas resort. What would it be
like to spend time there, a fisherman among the rich and the foreign, playing
tennis, taking a jacuzzi, sipping cocktails? At 4 a.m. on May 27, Cervantes was
checking his nets with helper Alvics Cabilo, 21, when over the horizon came the
throbbing of huge horsepower, more powerful than anything normally found in the
waters off the Philippines' rugged western Palawan province. The speedboat had
no...
