Word: arroyos
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...RESIGNED. TEOFISTO GUINGONA, 74, Philippine Vice President, as Foreign Minister following a disagreement with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over the deployment of U.S. troops in the southern Philippines for counterterrorism exercises; in Manila. Guingona believes the U.S. military presence is at odds with a constitutional provision barring foreign combat troops on Philippine soil...
...five suspected militants were among 20 people killed in separate incidents in Indian-administered Kashmir. Various radical groups took responsibility for the attacks, which came as Defense Minister George Fernandes said that Indian forces would remain deployed in Kashmir until fall elections. PHILIPPINES Lost at Sea President Gloria Arroyo called off a search for the body of the Muslim rebel Abu Sabaya, believed to have died in a battle with Philippine troops at sea. The army said Sabaya's body was probably eaten by sharks. He was the main spokesman and one of the leaders of Abu Sayyaf, a guerrilla...
Most world leaders probably would not want their country to be compared with Afghanistan. But some are learning that if they pledge to move against terrorists operating in their territory, the U.S. will give them money, weapons and military training. No wonder Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called the island where Abu Sayyaf terrorists roam her "little Afghanistan." George W. Bush has made it clear that the U.S. will follow al-Qaeda wherever it goes. Now Americans are tracking suspects in the Philippines, Yemen and Georgia...
...only concerned about the smaller Abu Sayyaf. The MILF doesn't appear as a "designated foreign terrorist organization" in the State Department's latest bad guys list. There's no talk of targeting the group if or when Abu Sayyaf are mopped up. When Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo visited Washington in November, she said she and U.S. President George W. Bush had no disagreements on how to combat terrorism in her country. "Where I draw the line," she said, "he draws the line...
...Most importantly, Arroyo is in peace talks with the MILF, hoping to avoid a much larger conflict in Mindanao. That requires Manila?and now Washington?to deliberately ignore the MILF's very dark side. It has trained Pakistani, Arab and Indonesian jihadis. Rohan Gunaratna of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrew's University in Scotland estimates that 400 to 600 foreigners have passed through its camps since 1996. Its links to Jemaah Islamiah are evidenced by the tale of Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, an Indonesian arrested in January in Manila for taking part...