Word: arroyos
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...Bank governor quickly announced that the markets weren't freaking out over Poe alone but were reacting to "a series of events over the last four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho; kidnap gangs ran riot in Manila; power blackouts were predicted for vast stretches of the country. And the day Poe became a candidate, a shadowy group of soldiers released a manifesto threatening a coup if Arroyo didn...
...wish I could deny it." Heraclio (Rocky) Nazareno, demoted Philippine press undersecretary, apologizing for drunkenly urinating near an emergency exit on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's chartered airplane
...Other recent arrests suggest the problem goes beyond JI. Just a few hours after Arroyo paraded Refke before the press, the Bureau of Immigration's commissioner, Andrea Domingo, announced the capture of two suspected al-Qaeda operatives, both Arabs, on Philippine soil. One of them, 36-year-old Jordanian Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil, was arrested on Sept. 25 in the city of Zamboanga while attempting to sell 14 properties owned by Alice Yabo, the second wife of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. He ran a number of Islamic charities in the Philippines until...
...further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a homegrown Muslim separatist organization in Mindanao with some 12,500 members. While attempting to harass Abu Sayyaf into extinction, Arroyo has also been trying to end years of bloodshed by negotiating a peace treaty with the MILF...
...Meanwhile, Arroyo and the military must now track down scores of suspected JI terrorists, including Refke's dining chums. Arroyo says the Philippine military already has special teams "pouring into Mindanao for a manhunt that will not relent until all these fugitives are accounted for." The success of that mission will either help free the country of a dangerous scourge?or touch off another turn in the country's endless cycle of violence...