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...birthrate are indeed connected and that the government should promote "fertility-awareness education" using "modern technology" and "birth spacing." Her words seemed intentionally vague, but the church, hearing contraceptive allusions, snapped back. "I want the President to make clear what she means," said Teodoro Bacani, a bishop in Manila, adding that he was "hurt" by her remarks. Arroyo, herself a devout Catholic, quickly qualified her statements, saying that she supported "natural family planning," thereby disappointing those who hoped she would be less beholden to the church now that she's no longer seeking re-election. A source inside Malaca?ang Palace...
...ever-skeptical Manila, there are suspicions that Arroyo's pullout was a cynical play for public support-and that she'll later decide to run after all. But the 55-year-old former economics professor and devout Catholic is widely viewed as a straight shooter. Many assume she's simply lost her taste for the game-not least because so little has gone right since she took over. The Philippines, she said, is "now closer to the category of backward countries, wherein powerful, selfish interests are able to exploit poverty and ignorance." She also complained of a political atmosphere filled...
...dangerous, simply local insurgencies. In the late '90s through the middle of 2001, JI engaged in several terrorist acts, including the bombing of the Philippine ambassador to Indonesia in August 2000; a spate of church bombings across the Indonesian archipelago in late 2000; and a series of bombings in Manila in December 2000. There was a method to all this madness. The assassination attempt on the Philippine ambassador was a "thank you" from JI to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for providing training camps in Philippine territory it controlled. The December 2000 bombings in Manila were a joint operation...
...Jakarta, as well as launching a U.S.S. Cole-style attack against U.S. naval vessels making port calls. JI hooked up with the MILF and other regional militant groups, and with al-Qaeda funding established its own franchises, such as Laskar Jundullah headed by Agus Dwikarna, now in jail in Manila after being caught with explosives, to wage sectarian conflicts in Indonesia's Sulawesi and Maluku regions. But as increasing numbers of JI personnel are picked up, the group, like its patron al-Qaeda, is changing strategies. Last week the Canadian and Australian embassies in Manila received explicit and credible threats...
...sites such as foreign embassies, Philippine intelligence officials say concerns about possible JI targets focus on a huge oil depot located in the heart of the city, not far from Malacanang, the presidential palace. The hit list also includes the Philippine Stock Exchange, major shopping malls and flyovers in Manila. Meanwhile in the south, where the overwhelming majority of the country's more than 3 million Muslims live, hardly a week goes by without some form of deadly attack...