Kidnapped Australian on Facebook, YouTube

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More than a year after he was kidnapped from his home in the southern Philippines, Australian Warren Rodwell appears on a recorded video uploaded to YouTube and shared on Facebook on December 25, 2012.  It’s his third proof-of-life video.  He is visibly thinner, with hollowed-out cheeks and a cropped haircut.  Intelligence sources tell Rappler they have been monitoring the YouTube account, which claims to be “the official channel of Al-Harakatul Islamia” – the formal name of the Abu Sayyaf.  Western and Filipino intelligence sources say Rodwell is being held by the Abu Sayyaf on the island of Basilan and that negotiations have hit many snags.

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