Word: mindanao
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...arriving the next morning. Some came on buses, others in a truck. Residents of the isolated trading town of Ipil (pop. 52,000), 500 mi. south of Manila, noticed the newcomers. But soldiers are a common sight most places in the Philippines, particularly on the turbulent southern island of Mindanao, with its history of Muslim insurgency. "We thought they were real army," said Arturo Dimla, a local accounts clerk...
...government had been expecting Abu Sayyaf to make a move as early as two weeks ago. The five-year-old group, one of several demanding either autonomy or a separate Muslim state on Mindanao, has been linked to the Islamic fundamentalists charged with planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The connections have been detailed in recent weeks by Edwin Angeles, once Abu Sayyaf's military strategist, who surrendered to Philippine authorities in February after a falling out with his fellow fighters. Angeles, backed by military intelligence, has linked Abu Sayyaf with Ramzi Ahmed...
...bomb-making materials in their hotel rooms. Police reportedly are now seeking a 26-year-old Kuwaiti-born "electronics expert" believed to be the ringleader. The conspirators are thought to have slipped into the country in small groups over a period of weeks, entering through the southern island of Mindanao, a Muslim enclave...
...such special effects, some grace might try to freeze in midair the bullets blazing around America -- might slide them back up the gun barrels they came from, and then might drop the guns, especially the guns American youths are using to kill each other, into someplace like the Mindanao Deep...
...landed in Davao on Mindanao Island and took the airport. On Jan. 24, 1942, we arrived at Balikpapan on Borneo in Indonesia. Our job was to repair airports so our Zeros could fly within a week to 10 days and midsize bombers within 20 days. We had to work day and night. We all had a strong sense of duty, a sense that Japan was going...