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The breakthrough certainly came at a politically fortuitous time. Last week, U.S. President George W. Bush wrapped up his whirlwind tour of Asia, during which he urged regional leaders to turn up the heat in the war on terror. His second stop was Manila, where he promised to provide the...
Although the intelligence services have concrete details identifying 45 JI operatives in the area, Ermita says the total number of foreign Islamic militants is hard to estimate. "Our borders are very porous," he concedes. "We don't have the resources or the navy to protect them, so [terrorists] come and...
Other recent arrests suggest the problem goes beyond JI. Just a few hours after Arroyo paraded Refke before the press, the Bureau of Immigration's commissioner, Andrea Domingo, announced the capture of two suspected al-Qaeda operatives, both Arabs, on Philippine soil. One of them, 36-year-old Jordanian Mahmoud...
Despite these small victories, it is still just the beginning of a difficult battle to root out terrorism in the Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro...
If the true American objective is to fight terrorism born of Islamic fundamentalism, it would have been far more effective to spend the same amount of money (or less) on education and the relief of poverty in Islamic countries instead of spending tens of billions of dollars on a military...