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...Philippines' wildest places. Abu Sayyaf uses it as a refuge from the law; the group's traditional base is the island of Basilan to the north. The M.N.L.F. was actually born on Jolo in the late-1960s, from which it spread its call for an independent Muslim Mindanao. In the 1970s and '80s, at least 100,000 people were killed in that insurgency through much of the south. In 1996, M.N.L.F. leader Nur Misuari signed a peace deal with the government: Misuari became governor of most of the south and the group disarmed. (A splinter group, the Moro Islamic Liberation...
...engaged in suicide operations. Now they do; and they will continue to do so in the coming years. Second, al-Qaeda linked terrorist training camps are still active in Southeast Asia. True, camps in Kalimantan, Indonesia, have been dismantled, but there are training camps on the Philippine island of Mindanao. Although the camps there are small and mobile, and the recruits trained in them few in number, the training is impressive, including study of chemical and biological agents. Third, regional governments continue to lack both the will and the wallet to target the groups' support and operational infrastructure...
...original goal of independence. Senior Philippine intelligence officials say they believe that as part of his reconsolidation of the group, Khadaffy and a core band of supporters have left the traditional Abu Sayyaf stomping grounds in the Sulu archipelago and Basilan and moved onto the main southern island of Mindanao, the vast home turf of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), the much larger separatist group engaged in on-again, off-again peace talks with the Philippine government. (See story.) Arroyo is anxious to get a peace deal with the M.I.L.F. to bring stability and development to Mindanao. M.I.L.F. chairman...
...formula" that will break the cycle of failed negotiations and mutual distrust between the two sides. A similar peace accord with the oldest Islamic separatist group in the Philippines, the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), was signed in 1996, and that group was given administration of much of Mindanao and a healthy budget. But the M.I.L.F.'s refusal to go along kept peace from the region. Murad claims to have 70,000 armed fighters across the island (although independent analysts think the number is closer...
...Even though Pacquiao is no longer the underdog, says Salud, he will still fight like one: "His courage is such that his fights are half over before they begin. His courage comes from poverty, from having lived that way." Pacquiao agrees. Without his background on the mean streets of Mindanao, he says, "I never would have been a champion...