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MONEY American military assistance to the Philippines has jumped from $38 million in 2001 to $114 million this year?making it the fourth largest recipient of U.S. military aid. Last week President Bush promised development money for the southern island of Mindanao if a peace pact can be secured between Manila and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...TRAINING The U.S. has pledged to help overhaul the country's military. The Philippine constitution bars U.S. troops from engaging in combat unless fired upon, but about 300 U.S. soldiers are providing counterterrorism training to Filipino troops fighting Muslim separatists in Mindanao...
There was nothing furtive about the dozen or so men who checked into the Sardonyx Plaza hotel in the city of Cotabato on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Oct. 1. Their leader, a small, cherubic-looking young man who signed the register as Eric Yacub, said more men would be joining them the next day. The group then ate a hearty dinner, ordering food "like there was no tomorrow," recalls hotel employee Marietta Sandayen. As it transpired, there wouldn't be much of a tomorrow for Yacub?at least, not the kind of day he was expecting. Around...
DIED. HASHIM SALAMAT, 61, founder and leader of the 25-year-old, 12,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF); of a heart attack; "somewhere in Mindanao," according to the rebel group. News of Salamat's death remained secret for over three weeks, during which the Philippine government signed a cease-fire with the group to clear the way for peace talks in Kuala Lumpur. Salamat is credited with bridging the nationalist and pan-Islamic elements within the MILF. Three weeks before he died, he formally renounced terrorism, a condition for attending the talks. He is succeeded by former deputy...
...being taken into custody; police said he died during a gun battle. Thousands of Kashmiris joined a strike in protest at the killing, as lawyers in the region called for an investigation. Clash of Faiths Philippines Three Muslim mosques in the city of Davao on the southern island of Mindanao were attacked soon after a bomb at a ferry terminal killed 16 people and injured more than 50. The blast followed one at Davao airport last month, which killed 23 people and was blamed by authorities on Muslim separatist guerrillas. Police threw a security cordon around the city as fears...