Word: filipino
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...jihad vet, spent time after that war in the Philippines with local insurgents who had fought in Afghanistan and were now putting their skills to work fighting for an Islamic state in the southern islands of the Philippines. Yousef had even planned attacks on U.S. airliners there, and the Filipino jihad vets who formed the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group never forgot their old comrade - one of their prime demands when they kidnapped a group of Western tourists last year was for the release of Ramzi Yousef...
...worked, repainting the entire ship and plastering a new English name over the Thai lettering on the bow. Off the Maldives, they rendezvoused with another tanker and the Hong Kong crime lord. The palm oil was pumped into the second boat and the first one auctioned, a Filipino outbidding a Thai buyer with an offer of $100,000. Their work over, the captain and his crew collected their payoff and caught a ride to Manila with the new Filipino owner. From there, they flew to Jakarta and split up, laying low in Sangir for a year before returning to Batam...
...travelers demand the goods and services they have seen in foreign countries. Near my office in New York City, a branch of Pier 1 Imports looks like a cross between a yard sale and the great house of a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia. You can buy everything from Filipino and Indonesian cabinets to a Kyoto dining room and a Jamaican bedroom. (Jamaica as a source of fashionable bedroom furniture--who knew...
...tiny Arreceffi island. Disarming the security guards, the gunmen went straight for the cabanas on stilts over the water, which go for $720 per couple for two nights. They kicked down the doors and marched 20 guests out at gunpoint, including an eight-year-old Filipino boy and an American missionary couple who were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. Then the thugs started on the mini-bars and closets, grabbing sodas, nuts and chocolate, T shirts, lingerie and sunglasses. "Clothes were strewn around the rooms," says police Inspector Rodolfo Amurao. The raiders were heading for the resort kitchen when they...
...saviors were a brave company of men from the 6th Ranger Battalion. With the help of Filipino guerrilla bands, the Rangers slipped into the Japanese-held jungle and threaded their way around Japanese encampments to the prison, shot their way through the gates and, after a bloody firefight, hustled all the prisoners onto waiting buffalo carts for the journey back to safety...