Word: moros
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...authorities in Manila are engaged in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), the main group of Islamic insurgents on Mindanao. According to regional and Western security officials, parts of Mindanao, possibly outside the M.I.L.F's purview, serve as critical training and refuge areas for Islamic militants, primarily from Indonesia but also from Central Asia and the Middle East. On Friday, a M.I.L.F. spokesman told reporters that Dul Matin, an al-Qaeda-trained electronics expert suspected of playing a pivotal role in constructing the bombs for the 2002 Bali attacks, is on Mindanao, but not as a guest...
...Philippines is going through a violent patch. Apart from the bombings, intense fighting has erupted in the mountainous south between the military and Abu Sayyaf rebels, who have joined with renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim guerrilla group that once agitated for an independent state. Abu Sayyaf, moreover, has promised further attacks in urban areas. "We will find ways and means to inflict more harm," Sulaiman told the radio host...
...provoked by a military offensive the day before in which a local ustadz, or religious mentor, his wife and two children died. (The military is silent on that story.) The rebels include members of Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda linked kidnap-for-ransom group, and renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim group that once fought for a separate state. The military estimates the rebels' numbers at 800. By the end of the week, the armed forces had sent seven battalions?roughly 3,000 soldiers?to the island...
...1970s and '80s, at least 100,000 people were killed in that insurgency through much of the south. In 1996, M.N.L.F. leader Nur Misuari signed a peace deal with the government: Misuari became governor of most of the south and the group disarmed. (A splinter group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.) continued fighting for a separate state, although it is currently engaged in peace talks with the government that are held in Malaysia...
...says Bellocchio, "with a delicacy, a modest beauty, almost old-fashioned. She was outside the canon of current beauty." While Sansa's sensuality makes her a natural choice for romantic leads, she's also able to carry character roles: see her sensitive and tormented performance as Italian statesman Aldo Moro's reluctant kidnapper in another Bellochio film, 2003's Buongiorno, Notte (Good Morning, Night). But Sansa remains wary of the Magnani and Loren comparisons, and she's confident enough about the future to take a break from moviemaking to spend time with her boyfriend in Paris...