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To: Dayuhan who wrote (36423)	3/26/2004 12:23:49 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 793917

Lederhosen Subsidies Axed as Germany Tightens Belt story.news.yahoo.com LOL, is nothing sacred anymore? Perhaps now the French will stop subsidizing black berets!

To: Dayuhan who wrote (36423)	3/26/2004 12:28:02 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

Hi, Steven. Does any of the following add up? "Military News." PHILIPPINES: Moslems Tell Islamic Radicals to Leave March 25, 2004: The government has convinced the MILF that the Moslems of the southern Philippines, and those living as a minority throughout the country, face hard times if the MILF does not drop support for Islamic radicals. Apparently the MILF is doing that, forcing members of Jemaah Islamiah (the regional affiliate of al Qaeda) to move to Indonesia and Malaysia. Abu Sayyaf, which has committed a number of terrorist bombings, is considered a bunch of bandits who dabble in Islamic radicalism from time to time. March 23, 2004: An advance team of Malaysian ceasefire observers landed in the Philippines for a nine-day tour, to inspect 10 rebel camps and visit five cities where offices for their mission have been set up. The deployment of observers from several Muslim countries is one of the preconditions for the resumption of formal peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighting for an Islamic state on southern Mindanao island. Ultimately, the team will include at least 25 observers from Bahrain, Brunei, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Libya and Saudi Arabia. - Adam Geibel March 22, 2004: Six NPA rebels were killed when two rebel units supposed to be meeting under cover of darkness to plan a joint attack mistook each other for government troops and opened fire. The joint attack they were planning was to have been carried out on March 29. In a separate skirmish, two more NPA rebels were killed and five soldiers wounded. - Adam Geibel March 20, 2004: Philippine forces captured four Abu Sayyaf Muslim rebels over the last week that had allegedly involved in kidnapping and killing foreigners. One of the prisoners was Michael Pajiji, who allegedly helped kidnap 21 Westerners, Malaysians and Filipinos from Malaysian resorts in Sipadan in April, 2000. - Adam Geibel March 17, 2004: Military forces aborted an alleged New People's Army (NPA) plan to attack the Philippine National Oil Company geothermal plants in Palinpinon. Supposedly, no one was killed in the small 30-minute long skirmish but several rebels were wounded, none on government side. - Adam Geibel