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...There are still plenty of terrorists lurking, including members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a 12,000-strong separatist group with documented al-Qaeda links. (The Americans weren't allowed to put them in the crosshairs, since Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is in peace negotiations with the group.) From the beginning, the second front in Mindanao boiled down U.S.-Philippine relations to a single issue: the war on terror. Bush wanted to reward Arroyo for pledging her support after Sept. 11, and Arroyo's military was plainly ill-equipped to track down Abu Sayyaf, which had snatched more...
...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...
...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...