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...efforts to eliminate Abu Sayyaf guerrillas on the southern island of Basilan, will soon send 1,700 troops back to the region, including 350 members of the special forces, to help finish the job. But this go-round they'll be on the island of Jolo, a far more lawless place, and unlike last year, the Pentagon says American soldiers will take part in combat missions. Philippine officials say details are still being worked out, but any increased U.S. presence in the region is certain to fuel tensions with the MILF. "If negotiations fall apart?and it's more likely...
...Poor and lawless, the southern Philippine region of Mindanao has for decades hosted criminal gangs engaging in everything from gunrunning to extortion to kidnapping. It has also provided a haven for insurgent groups seeking to establish Islamic or communist states. Hardly a week goes by without a firefight, a bomb attack or a snatching. Just last Tuesday, the Philippine military unleashed yet another full-scale offensive near the town of Pikit against Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) militants, resulting in the deaths of at least 160 guerrillas and eight soldiers, and prompting the exodus of some 40,000 civilians...
WASHINGTON--Martin Chancey, secretary of the local unit of the Communist Party, asked Attorney-General Frank Murphy today to investigate the "lawless, terroristic and dishonest," actions of the Dies Committee...
Where some see a two-dimensional symbol of lawless capitalism, I see a three-dimensional heart...
...Islamists, an international mix of al-Qaeda operatives (including many North Africans) trained in Afghanistan as well as in camps set up in the Caucasus before the Sept. 11 attacks. The al-Qaeda camps in Georgia's Pankisi Valley - which until a Georgian security crackdown last year was a lawless haven of guerrillas, drug dealers and kidnappers - specialize, says Jacquard, in training recruits in the use of explosives and in basic chemical terror, including the poisoning of water and food supplies. Indeed, Georgian security sources say the al-Qaeda operatives in the Pankisi region - who moved out in the middle...