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...city of Davao on the southern island of Mindanao were attacked soon after a bomb at a ferry terminal killed 16 people and injured more than 50. The blast followed one at Davao airport last month, which killed 23 people and was blamed by authorities on Muslim separatist guerrillas. Police threw a security cordon around the city as fears grew of a spiral of religious violence in the previously peaceful area. meanwhile in swaziland ... The Lights Are Out One correspondent found a safer way to report on the war. Radio Swaziland's Pheshaya Dube gave a number of "live" reports...
...terminal sheltering from the rain beneath a protective canopy. According to police, he may have been approached by a young man with a backpack, whom they identify as Montazer Sudang, a 23-year-old with apparent links to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's biggest Islamic separatist group. A large pipe bomb, either in Sudang's backpack or carried by an unidentified female accomplice, exploded with an enormous blast. When the smoke cleared, 21 people were dead, including Hyde, Sudang and the alleged accomplice; more than 100 others were injured. It was Asia's worst terrorist incident...
...Spanish paramilitary van, from his home in Tolosa to a police cell in Madrid. It was there, claims Martxelo Otamendi - the last managing editor of the now banned Basque-language daily Egunkaria - that his ordeal began. While police interrogated him about his newspaper's alleged links to the Basque separatist terror organization ETA, he claims they had him stand naked in his cell for three days, with a chance to sit down only every five hours. Otamendi, 45, says the police humiliated him for his homosexuality, telling him to "take the position I use when my lover and I make...
...troops seized part of the Gaza Strip to create a "security zone." Killer Blast THE PHILIPPINES A bomb that exploded at Davao City airport in the southern island of Mindanao killed 21 people, including an American missionary. Authorities said that one of the dead was a member of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), who they believed was carrying the bomb, which exploded prematurely. The MILF, the country's biggest Muslim rebel group, denied responsibility for the attack. Face-Off in the Sky NORTH KOREA The U.S. began to dispatch long-range bombers to the Pacific island of Guam...
...Philippines After two weeks of fierce fighting and bombings in Mindanao that left 200 dead, negotiations between the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the administration of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo are in bad shape. Recent evidence linking the rebels to al-Qaeda has helped fuel a troubling escalation. The U.S., which last year assisted the Philippine army's efforts to eliminate Abu Sayyaf guerrillas on the southern island of Basilan, will soon send 1,700 troops back to the region, including 350 members of the special forces, to help finish the job. But this go-round they...