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...sounded like an unexpected act of charity by Abu Sayyaf rebels, who are holding three Americans and more than 20 Filipinos hostage in the jungles of the southern Philippines. Calling a Mindanao radio station by satellite phone last Tuesday, harsh-voiced rebel spokesman Abu Sabaya said: "As our gift in the celebration of Independence Day, we have released unconditionally Guillermo Sobero" (one of the three American captives). The spokesman then paused before delivering his taunting punchline: "But we have released him without his head." That morning, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was due to oversee Manila's Independence Day parade with...
...What lurked behind the door has proved shocking. Created in 1999 and managed by 150 volunteers, Channel 2 is the brainchild of an unlikely rebel: soft-spoken, 24-year-old computer consultant Hiroyuki Nishimura. Free to users, the site pulls in a mere $25,000 or so a month in advertising. "I wanted to provide space for people to discuss their interests," he says, adding that he doesn't censor a word. "Helpful or harmful, information is information," he says. "It's not up to us to question the impact or consequences." Nishimura may be forced to tighten up, however...
...guerrilla attack on the small red-roofed town of Aracinovo on the outskirts of the capital earlier this month stirred panic in Skopje, emptying the streets and causing NATO to rethink its approach to the conflict. But every pundit and newspaper hawker in Skopje had for months predicted a rebel attempt on Aracinovo. "How much would it have taken to secure the town with a few detachments of police troops, backed up by forces at the nearby airport," asks a local analyst. Government ineptitude has spawned conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that Prime Minister Georgievski actually wanted to lose Aracinovo...
...security forces' failures have, quite naturally, brought derision from the rebels camped in the mountains to the north. One commander, known as "Mjekrra" (" the beard" in Albanian), interviewed this month at a monastery high on a bluff overlooking eastern Macedonia said, "They can't fight with us. Their paramilitaries will fight with civilians - but not with us." A teenage combatant at the rebel camp looked scornfully down at a police base in the valley below, then added, "If the Macedonians lose one son or brother they will stop fighting." He claimed the authorities were using mercenaries from Ukraine and elsewhere...
...coalition (which includes ethnic Albanian parties) on the sorts of changes necessary. Parties representing the Slavic majority accuse the ethnic-Albanian parties of making wholly unacceptable political demands, which they're not prepared to consider. And there are no public channels open to even discuss these issues with the rebel National Liberation Army. The rebels presented their own peace plan last week, which includes some relatively extreme suggestions - such as incorporating NLA fighters into a reconstituted national army and police force, and including their commanders in any negotiations over constitutional changes. Both of those are non-starters...