Word: davao
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...herself. She is an unpopular President, plagued by corruption scandals and slammed for her failure to improve living standards. Arroyo has condemned the killings, but she will not implicate the military?even as it implicates itself. Col. Eduardo del Rosario, head of a military antiterrorist unit called Task Force Davao, admitted to TIME earlier this year that "individual commanders" might be responsible for the killings...
...that threat. Suresh Sheth Houston I'm appalled by ungrateful young Muslims living in foreign lands. Host countries should conduct a survey of Muslim noncitizens. If any complain they are not happy, the host country should ship them back to their native country free of charge. Jeannie V. Didal Davao City, the Philippines From what I have been told, most non-European and nonwhite minorities in the West experience derogatory treatment. It is doubly insulting when those victimized are from Muslim countries in the Middle East and elsewhere. In addition to discrimination at home, the arrogant foreign policies of most...
...ability to pull off such a deadly attack. (It wasn't until eight months later that the authorities acknowledged that Abu Sayyaf was indeed responsible.) Sulaiman didn't want to be taken so lightly last week. On Valentine's Day, after two bombs exploded in the southern cities of Davao and General Santos, Sulaiman was again on the radio, asserting that Abu Sayyaf's "gallant warriors of Islam" were behind the blasts. But his last words were: "There is one more to come." About 20 minutes later, a bomb went off on a bus in Makati, Metro Manila's financial...
...unassuming young man who bought a ticket for Berth 51 on the 1,747-passenger SuperFerry 14 sailing from Manila to Bacolod and Davao on Feb. 26 called himself Arnulfo Alvarado. If security officials in the Philippines checked ferry-passenger lists?they don't?the name would have set off deafening alarm bells. Arnulfo Alvarado, say Philippine officials, was the name of a member, now dead, of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. Two other Abu Sayyaf operators have used Alvarado's name to carry out previous attacks, according to Philippine intelligence officers. This Alvarado, whose real name was Redondo Cain...
...group has shown alarming vigor in the past six months. Intelligence officials in Manila say they have intercepted explosives that were to be used in two more attempts to bomb passenger ferries departing from Manila for the southern cities of Zamboanga and Davao. In March, police arrested four Abu Sayyaf members in Manila who allegedly admitted they were preparing to blow up one of the city's busiest shopping malls using up to 36 kg of explosives toted in backpacks. (One of the men picked up was alleged SuperFerry bomber Redondo Cain Dellosa, who apparently spent several days before...