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...around 8 a.m. on Aug. 17, a convoy of Philippines soldiers was traveling through Lanao del Sur, on the restive southern island of Mindanao, when, according to an army spokesmen, they were ambushed by Islamist insurgents. Four soldiers and four militiamen were killed. Before dawn the following morning, insurgents attacked two nearby towns, killing at least three more soldiers and 33 civilians. According to reports, the rebels hacked some of their victims to death with machetes. "They were killed as if like chickens," said a local army commander...
...disowned the 37-year-old Muklis. But Philippine intelligence officials say the Afghanistan-trained bomber still heads the SOG, which has a record of terrorist attacks on civilians in urban areas. Sources tell Time that shortly after the beginning of the army offensive in February, Muklis, in hiding in Lanao del Sur province, was contacted by SOG personnel to plan retaliatory strikes. If this is true, it's an ominous prospect for the Philippines...
...Recent army reports have Muklis hiding out in the cloud-swathed mountain range that rises abruptly from the placid waters of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao. "Getting into that area is very, very difficult," says Colonel Ernesto Boac, commander of the army brigade based in Marawi. Standing in front of a topographical wall map, he points to the densely wrinkled contours along the provincial border south of the lake. "It's difficult getting human intelligence out of there, and we're not picking up radio transmissions. It's a black hole." Not just for the Philip-pines, but increasingly...
...mosquito revolution of Marcos supporters in Manila three weeks ago, was confronted with another potentially dangerous crisis. The motives behind last week's snatchings were muddled in the curious combination of banditry and political activism that has turned kidnaping into a minor industry in the predominantly Muslim province of Lanao del Sur in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...
Until the kidnaping, Aquino had ignored the Muslim separatist problem in Mindanao. Pushed into action, she ordered the army to "settle once and for all Lanao's problem of warlordism." The warlord that Aquino apparently had in mind was Ali Dimaporo, a Marcos loyalist who was dismissed as Governor of Lanao del Sur after Aquino took power and who, according to intelligence reports, commanded the loyalties of the kidnapers. Dimaporo denied his involvement...