Word: moro
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...country where political instability and a crushing debt load have often made investors wary. Arroyo has also made progress in tamping down the long-running insurgencies in the south. Two weeks ago, she announced that the government was close to signing a final peace agreement with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Ricardo Saludo, Arroyo's Cabinet Secretary, says that stability and economic growth should guarantee her tenure: "As far as she's concerned, she will stay until 2010. Investors don't want to see a constitutionally elected President removed from office. And we want to give them that confidence...
...Royal Festival Hall (3) is not just for music aficionados?from classical to Iggy Pop?but also for those interested in design. The furniture of postwar-design star Robin Day has been restored, as have the carpets designed by architects Peter Moro and Leslie Martin. The venue will also be the central hub of this year's London Design Festival (Sept. 15 to 25; londondesignfestival.com...
...Qaeda camps as Abbasi and failed British shoe bomber Richard Reid. Abbasi says he first met Hicks during a fitness exercise that involved jogging around their Al Farooq training camp near Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. He writes that Hicks was teamed in the camp with Filipino recruits from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...have classified as a terrorist organization, is not the only headache in Mindanao for the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This resource-rich but lawless region is home to two other formidable armed groups. While Manila has struck a fragile cease-fire with the 12,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), the country's largest Muslim rebel army, it has vowed to eradicate Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda-linked outfit accused of a string of terrorist acts, including the 2004 bombing of a ferry near Manila that killed more than 100 people. January brought confirmation that Abu Sayyaf...
...Military success against the rebels in Mindanao also depends on restarting peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. After all, the Philippine army would be hard-pressed to fight the M.I.L.F. and the N.P.A. simultaneously, especially at a time when more than 6,000 government troops are already involved in a third entanglement-attacking Abu Sayyaf's jungle strongholds on Jolo Island. Adding to all this bloodshed is the other war: in recent years, but especially in 2006, hundreds of antigovernment activists across the Philippines-labor leaders, lawyers, journalists, even priests-have been assassinated. Many were members of legal...