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...Bacolod and Davao on Feb. 26 called himself Arnulfo Alvarado. If security officials in the Philippines checked ferry-passenger lists?they don't?the name would have set off deafening alarm bells. Arnulfo Alvarado, say Philippine officials, was the name of a member, now dead, of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. Two other Abu Sayyaf operators have used Alvarado's name to carry out previous attacks, according to Philippine intelligence officers. This Alvarado, whose real name was Redondo Cain Dellosa, hauled on board a cardboard box containing a television set. The TV, according to investigators, was packed with...
...Responsibility for the attack was immediately claimed by representatives of Abu Sayyaf, a group of Islamic separatists chiefly known for kidnapping for ransom in the southern Philippines. But just as rapidly, officials in Manila scoffed off the claim; President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo dismissed it as coming from "pranksters." Despite promises of a swift investigation into the attack, concrete conclusions about the cause of the explosion have yet to appear...
...KILLED. HAMSIRAJI SALI, a leader of the extremist Islamic group Abu Sayyaf, and five fellow militants in a shootout with government troops; on the island of Basilan in the southern Philippines. In 2002 the U.S. indicted Sali in connection with the 2001 kidnapping of three Americans, two of whom died in captivity, and offered a $5 million reward for his capture. Sali's death marked the latest victory for the Philippine government in its recent crackdown on the extremist group. Earlier this month, police arrested six alleged Abu Sayyaf members and seized 50 kilograms of explosives, which authorities said were...
...little in the makeup of the G.M.I.P. suggests that it shares the jihadist fervor of JI or al-Qaeda. Founded in 1995, the group seems driven as much by profiteering as fighting for Islam. Like the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, the G.M.I.P. is deep into extortion and kidnapping. Governmental and security officials are speculating openly that the group is not seizing arms for its own use but to sell on the black market that flourishes in the south...
...Despite these small victories, it is still just the beginning of a difficult battle to root out terrorism in the Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a homegrown Muslim separatist organization in Mindanao with some 12,500 members. While attempting to harass Abu Sayyaf into extinction, Arroyo has also been trying to end years of bloodshed by negotiating a peace treaty with the MILF...