Word: mindanao
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...nations like Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines take up the relay of training jihad fighters? Al-Qaeda is said to have cells and camps set up in the Philippines and has made common cause with the Abu Sayyaf rebels fighting for a Muslim state on the island of Mindanao. The damp jungles may not be familiar turf for al-Qaeda fighters, but they made a safe guerrilla beachhead for the Abu Sayyaf. The Bush Administration has promised President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo $19 million to combat the rebels and will soon send a stockpile of modern weaponry...
...PHILIPPINES Settle Down Government troops ringed the city of Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao after days of fighting with the Moro National Liberation Front. The security cordon was set up to keep the Muslim rebels out of the city and angry residents in. Five guerrillas were hacked to death by citizens infuriated by a government decision to give rebels safe passage back to their camp in exchange for the freedom of 110 civilian hostages. Manila charged renegade Governor and MNLF leader Nur Misuari with rebellion and sedition in connection with the violence, which broke a 1996 peace pact between...
...door to hell." THE PHILIPPINES Voting With Their Kalishnikovs Muslim guerillas from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLA) broke a 1996 peace pact by attacking an army base on the island of Jolo. Government officials accused former MNLF leader Nur Misuari, governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao in which Jolo is located, of inciting the violence to stop this week's election for his successor. The government deployed thousands of troops and more than 100 rebels were killed. Police in Malaysia later nabbed Misuari, who has been stripped of his powers EGYPT Military Trial Ninety-four alleged Islamic...
...Like Megawati, Arroyo risks being labeled a lackey for America by political enemies. Of more worry, the Philippines carries a reputation as a terrorist and money-laundering locale. A bin Laden brother-in-law helped set up Abu Sayyaf, the gratuitously violent separatist group from the southern island of Mindanao. To date, Abu Sayyaf has outfought, outsmarted and, on occasion, paid off Philippine law enforcement. It is well funded, well armed and, observers fear, primed for regional expansion. A Philippine problem is now a world problem, and Arroyo is hoping for a world solution. The Catholic Church is calling...
...This view is shared by extremists throughout the Islamic world, from Mindanao to Morocco. While it is more comfortable to believe that such fanaticism is rooted only in ignorance, in Pakistan, a member of an Islamic militant organization is as likely to be educated and urbane - an engineer, a computer scientist, a military officer or a businessman. Many tried living in America or Europe and slunk back home, shocked and disturbed by the clash of Western culture and values with their own. Alienated, they fall back on Islam to regain their identity...