“Apo, you are free,“ 62-year-old Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni was told by his guards. It was 4 in the afternoon Saturday, July 11, just four days shy of the half-year mark since he was abducted by the Abu Sayyaf, along with two other Red Cross volunteers in Jolo, Sulu, a few meters from the provincial capitol. “Apo,” or grandfather in Tausug, was what Vagni would be called by his captors. But Vagni was careful not to raise his hopes too high. He said he had been told this line ...