Word: jolo
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...Speculation here is that if things go well against Abu Sayyaf in Basilan, the next target may be other members of the group in Jolo, or Moro Liberation Front guerrillas in Mindanao or even the communist New People's Army insurgents in Luzon...
...terrorists in Afghanistan. The 650 U.S. soldiers who have been deployed on the southern island of Basilian to help the Philippine armed forces rout the fighters of a radical Islamist group known as Abu Sayyaf are stepping onto sometimes treacherous turf. That much was made clear Wednesday in neighboring Jolo province, where three Marines of the Philippine army were killed in a firefight - by Philippine police. (The guilty policemen were former guerrillas of the Moro National Liberation Front, a Muslim secessionist group that had been granted autonomous control of four provinces under a 1996 peace agreement.) The incident followed...
...course none of this has any direct bearing on U.S. military support for government efforts to stamp out the Abu Sayyaf. But this week's clashes in Jolo are a reminder of the political complexity that prevails in Abu Sayyaf's stomping ground, in which there are a bewildering array of players in shifting alliances...
...attacks. Hamas promised revenge, with one leader saying that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had "opened the door to hell." THE PHILIPPINES Voting With Their Kalishnikovs Muslim guerillas from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLA) broke a 1996 peace pact by attacking an army base on the island of Jolo. Government officials accused former MNLF leader Nur Misuari, governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao in which Jolo is located, of inciting the violence to stop this week's election for his successor. The government deployed thousands of troops and more than 100 rebels were killed. Police in Malaysia...
...rebels also suffered an internal setback last week. A powerful Abu Sayyaf commander named Ghalib Andang from Jolo island is negotiating his surrender, presidential sources said on Friday. Commander Robot (as Andang is commonly known) carried out a kidnapping on a Sipadan island diving resort in Malaysia last April, netting more than $425 million in ransom from European nations, Libya and Malaysia. Robot's surrender won't necessarily help the current hostages, who are being held by a different faction, but it means the Basilan-based rebels can no longer count on reinforcements?or on an easy escape route...