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Why has it changed its spots yet again? Ironically, the Philippine authorities may have been a victim of their own success. Security officials say that after a concerted drive against the group?heavily backed by Washington in what was called its "second front" in the war on terror?scores of...
Sipping homegrown coffee in the shade of a huge acacia tree in a breezy jungle clearing, Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim wears a neatly pressed safari suit, his PDA and shiny leather briefcase close at hand. Murad, who is in his late 50s, resembles a thriving small-town businessman rather than...
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wants the M.I.L.F. at ease permanently. She has spent the past three-and-a-half years trying to get a peace accord with the group, going so far as to persuade Washington to keep the M.I.L.F. off its list of terrorist organizations. Murad is now...
The M.I.L.F., according to Murad, is not allied with Abu Sayyaf, and he questions Abu Sayyaf's conversion to Islamic ideals and to the cause of a separate Muslim nation in the southern Philippines. "The original Abu Sayyaf group, under the older brother Abdurajak, had a political objective," he says...
It's a combination of Islamic extremists and, secondly, some of Saddam's loyalists, who have been part and parcel of the Saddam atrocities. And third, it's the common criminals who have been released from prison.