Word: moros
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...Indonesia in August 2000; a spate of church bombings across the Indonesian archipelago in late 2000; and a series of bombings in Manila in December 2000. There was a method to all this madness. The assassination attempt on the Philippine ambassador was a "thank you" from JI to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for providing training camps in Philippine territory it controlled. The December 2000 bombings in Manila were a joint operation of JI and the MILF. At the time, some of these acts were wrongly blamed on criminal gangs, not terrorists...
...Mughira al Gaza'iri, the camp's leader, and senior bin Laden associate Abu Zubaydah. In 1995, at Abu Zubaydah's suggestion, al-Faruq procured a fake passport and traveled with al-Mughira to the Philippines. There he joined Camp Abubakar, a terrorist-training facility run by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Philippine-based rebel group fighting for independence from Manila. According to a regional intelligence report, al-Faruq, while in the Philippines, unsuccessfully tried to enter flight school, in the hopes of commandeering a commercial plane and blowing...
...There are still plenty of terrorists lurking, including members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a 12,000-strong separatist group with documented al-Qaeda links. (The Americans weren't allowed to put them in the crosshairs, since Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is in peace negotiations with the group.) From the beginning, the second front in Mindanao boiled down U.S.-Philippine relations to a single issue: the war on terror. Bush wanted to reward Arroyo for pledging her support after Sept. 11, and Arroyo's military was plainly ill-equipped to track down Abu Sayyaf, which had snatched more...
...Moro Islamic Liberation Front: The largest Philippine Islamist guerrilla group, with more than 12,500 members, the MILF has launched attacks and bombings for four years. Analysts suspect that al-Qaeda now has links to the MILF...
...another part of the Philippines, however, there are increasing signs of a very real terrorist threat and much fresher links to Osama bin Laden's organization. TIME has uncovered evidence linking two Palestinians and one Jordanian, who are a part of an al-Qaeda cell, with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest separatist rebel faction in the country. The three were picked up last Nov. 23, their arrests barely making the newspapers. All three are being held at Camp Creme in Manila, officially for violating immigration laws. At least one member of this cell, Ahmed Abed...