Word: cotabato
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...This loss may be devastating for Manny, but the whole boxing world is rejoicing. This ensures that there will be a true boxing superstar to look up to in the next three years at least. To the electorate of the 1st district of South Cotabato... thank you!" - Anonymous fan commenting on Pacquiao's Website, following his election loss (Philippines Daily Inquirer...
Less than a week after the court's decision, MILF insurgents attacked 15 towns on Aug. 11 in Mindanao's North Cotabato province, killing at least nine people. Around 130,000 people were displaced by the North Cotabato violence, according the World Food Program, which is supplying refugees in the area. Fighting soon spread to neighboring areas, driven, says Lingga, by frustration with the political deadlock in peace negotiations...
...link with Jemaah Islamiah." But he admits that plenty of non-Philippine radicals have visited M.I.L.F. camps in the past?especially before Sept. 11, 2001?including Indonesian explosives expert Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, who was killed a year ago in a shootout with government troops in the city of Cotabato. (Murad says al-Ghozi's J.I. connections weren't known when he was with the M.I.L.F.) He also admits that J.I. members may still be around. "It is not impossible that some members of the M.I.L.F. have a personal relationship, but I assure you that the M.I.L.F. will not tolerate...
...Mindanao critical. Though Malaysian, Indonesian and Philippine police all say they have stepped up patrols between Indonesia and the Philippines, their efforts don't seem to have stemmed the flow of would-be cadets. When Rifki was captured, he was waiting in a hotel in the Mindanao city of Cotabato for a batch of 10 newly arrived Indonesian recruits to join him for escort to the camps...
...Ghozi, whose escape earlier this year from a high-security prison in Manila was a major embarrassment for the government, was shot dead by police on Oct. 12.) Refke also told police that his training from al-Ghozi had taken place in a camp "on the outskirts of Cotabato." That news "set off a mad scramble to find the camp," says a senior government official...