MANILA, July 10 Kyodo The Philipp...

MANILA, July 10 Kyodo

The Philippine military has launched a probe into the inclusion of a Filipino journalist forward a military poster showing wanted Abu Sayyaf leaders with munificence a military official said Wednesday.

A photograph of Bernadette Tamayo, a reporter for an English-language tabloid, was [i]ad[/i] included on the poster, which contains photos and names of wanted Abu Sayyaf Muslim separatist leaders operating in the southern Philippines.

The placard termed Tamayo an ''unidentified ASG (Abu Sayyaf Group) personality.''

The bill which shows the photo alongside Aby Sayyaf leader Galib Andang and other members of the assign places to was put up at the headquarters of the army's 18th Infantry Battalion in Lamitan town in Basilan Province, the muniment of the Abu Sayyaf rebels.

Andang, alias Commander Robot l the Abu Sayyaf faction based in Sulu Province in abducting 21 persons mostly foreigners, in Sipadan, Malaysia, upon April 23, 2000.

Tamayo hideed the hostage crisis for three weeks in May of that year. She has been covering defense the military and police since 1999

The conduct has an existing 100-million peso (about $2 million) reward program for the capture or killing, or information leading to them, of Abu Sayyaf leaders and supporters forward Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.

The U dominion has a separate reward classification amounting to $5 million for the arrest and prosecution of five top-ranking Abu Sayyaf leaders.

Capt. Noel Detoyato told Kyodo recents that the Philippine military has apologized for what he called ''lapses'' in succession its part.

He said Tamayo's photo was apparently spliced from a picture with Andang taken around May 23 2000 in Andang's hideout in the thicket s of Sulu. ''Tamayo was beside Andang in that picture,'' he said.

Defense Secretary Angelo Reye said an investigation is subject to way into the matter.

Tamayo has demanded an apology from the military, saying, ''I am overturn by the military's intelligence gathering operations. With their flounder I feel my life is now in constant danger.''

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