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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:15:31 PM
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:21:20 PM
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Jihad in the Philippines: Muslims Destroy Cathedral, At Least 15 Dead Friday, April 16, 2010 atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com Cathedral damaged in Phil bomb attack Fifteen people are dead and a Catholic cathedral severely damaged after a siege by Al Qaeda-linked militants left 15 people dead. At least 25 Abu Sayyaf militants wearing police and military camouflage uniforms on Tuesday set off two bombs that blew up a van and damaged the Santa Isabela Catholic cathedral in Isabela City in the worst attack by the group in months, Sin Chew Daily reports. The bombings sparked gunbattles around the city, with the militants targeting helpless civilians scampering to safety. ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Basilan issues appeal through Fides, says Cathedral is destroyed, people are terrified; asks for help from Universal Church Isabela (Agenzia Fides) – "It is terrible. The bomb that exploded yesterday destroyed 70% of the Cathedral of Isabela and is now unsafe for use. Thank God, there were no casualties. Today we celebrated Mass at the Catechetical Center. The faithful are terrified. These terrorist acts seek to make life difficult for Christians and drive them out of Basilan.” This is the dramatic testimony Fides has received from Bishop Martin Jumoad of the Prelature of Isabella, the capital of Basilan Island, in the southernmost part of the Philippines. Yesterday, there were two terrorist attacks on the island: a bomb hit a government building and another hit the Catholic Cathedral in the city, leaving it severely damaged. Later, there were shots exchanged between terrorists and security forces, resulting in about 15 victims. "It is the first time we are attacked so directly and with such force. In the past, I received several threatening letters and intimidation. There have been other smaller attacks, but now it is very different. This could be a tragedy. I seriously fear for my life and the lives of the faithful. However, today I went out to encourage the faithful. This is my mission," the Bishop told Fides. "I have prepared a pastoral letter calling on Catholics to stay in Basilan, which is our home, and asking them to remain calm, not to react to violence, and to pray for peace. Today, a procession of people carrying candles as a sign of peace lit the city. Our hope must not die," he added, recalling that the population in Basilan is over 60%, compared to 40% Christian. ............................................................... Take that and shove it up your ass, muslim propaganda boy

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:24:01 PM
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:24:51 PM
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Muslims Condemn Philippines Airport Bombing Tuesday, March 04 2003 iio.org (WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/4/03) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group, today condemned a bomb attack outside an airport in the southern Philippines that left 19 dead, including one American. In a statement, CAIR said: "We condemn this murderous attack and all other attacks on innocent civilians by any individuals, groups or states. We call for the swift apprehension and prosecution of the perpetrators. No faith or ideology should support such barbarous actions." In a statement, a member of the Islamic Information Office of Hawaii said: "I Randy Fermo , a Moro in the United State of America condemned the recent bomb attack at the airport in the Southern Philippines. I also encourage all parties to go back to peace process as soon as possible and to start humanitarian relief for the over 900,000 Moros that are currently living at the slum areas in all parts of the Philippines. Violence has got to end and not a solution."

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:28:50 PM
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Bomb rips through bus in Philippines, killing 10 A bomb ripped through a passenger bus Thursday in the southern Philippines, killing at least 10 people and wounding nine in an attack authorities say may have been carried out by an extortion gang with links to Muslim militants. By TERESA CEROJANO The Associated Press Originally published October 21, 2010 at 3:32 PM \| Page modified October 21, 2010 at 6:24 PM seattletimes.nwsource.com MANILA, Philippines — A bomb ripped through a passenger bus Thursday in the southern Philippines, killing at least 10 people and wounding nine in an attack authorities say may have been carried out by an extortion gang with links to Muslim militants. The bus was traveling with more than 50 passengers when the powerful blast shook the rear of the vehicle from the overhead compartment, police Chief Superintendent Gil Meneses said. The force of the explosion was so strong it decapitated two of the victims, he said. Ten people, including the bus conductor, died in the blast in Matalam township in North Cotabato province, said police spokeswoman Senior Inspector Joyce Birrey. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. The southern Philippines is home to kidnappers, extortion gangs and a decades-old Muslim insurgency. President Benigno Aquino III condemned the bombing and ordered police to step up security at possible terrorist targets. The bus driver told police three men who boarded the bus along the highway got off minutes before the blast. Their sketches were being prepared from witnesses' descriptions, Birrey said. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang said authorities suspect the Al-Khobar extortion gang in the attack, saying the bus company involved in the bombing had been targeted for extortion in the past. Al-Khobar is the most notorious of the region's extortion gangs, and authorities say it is made up of criminals and former Muslim rebels who have been blamed for attacking businesses that refuse to pay their ransom demands. The group is on a U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:31:20 PM
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Fear of Muslim terrorism grows in Philippines Chaos descends on the Phillipine island of Mindanao as 220,000 refugees are on the move amid fears of a civil war. Churches provide assistance as talks between Muslim terrorists and the government fail. Saturday, August 23, 2008 By Santosh Digal speroforum.com More than 220,000 people are now displaced after weeks of escalating violence in Mindanao, southern Philippines, between the army and rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) reported. The WFP said it has provided 900 metric tonnes of food for displaced families left without shelter and unable to feed themselves in the provinces of Maguindanao and Shariff Kabunsuan. Some 10,000 newly displaced families (about 60,000 persons) will get 250 metric tonnes of rice worth U$ 207,000. The UN agency added that more and more families abandon their homes “due to the growing insecurity”. Since 11 August it has provided some 650 metric tons of rice to 160,000 displaced families from Lanao Del Sur, Lanao Del Norte, and North Cotabato “We hope for peace and stability as the number of vulnerable victims of these clashes continues to rise. The WFP is providing life-saving food support to meet urgent needs, but it also hopes that the humanitarian situation will stabilise soon,” said Stephen Anderson, WFP Philippines Country Director and Representative. The country’s Catholic Church is also mobilising to help the needy. The Jesuits in the Philippines have started a fund raising drive to help affected civilians in the Mindanao strife, but they are also calling on the parties to restart peace talks so that the Memorandum of Agreement can be signed. Sadly “violence and hatred continue to take their toll on the lives of innocent civilians, Muslims, Lumads and Christians alike,” said Chan-Gonzaga, SJ, executive director of the Jesuit Social Service Center. The archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro together with the dioceses of Iligan and Marawi has called for aid, especially for towns in Lanao where residents have been attacked and houses burned. Related Articles Middle East Islamists seek elimination of Mideast Christians Analysis Islamists post hit-lists of Christians in Mideast and elsewhere Christmas is in the cross-hairs of Muslim extremists. Jihadis call for war against Christians in the US and Mideast. Funds raised will go to Cagayan de Oro archdiocese and will be distributed under the care of Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, SJ, and Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan). The recent development has reinforced old prejudices across the country that the MILF cannot be trusted to keep its word or reach a peace deal to end the violence. The rebels have re-opened old wounds, especially among the Christians, the most affected group by the Islamic rebels’ logic of war and massacres, said Fr Amado Picardal, CSsR, dean of Redemptorist St. Alphonsus Major Seminary, Davao. “A lot of atrocities have been committed. [. . .] There were two bombings in my hometown of Iligan City. [. . .] There was panic in the city. [There is] fear that the area will soon be attacked” by Islamic rebels, he said. Santosh Digal writes for Asia News and appears here with permission.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:35:28 PM
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Philippines — the forgotten terrorist front .............................................................. worldfocus.org Martin Savidge hosts Filipino peace negotiator and Catholic priest Eliseo Mercado and security analyst Zachary Abuza when Worldfocus Radio explores the forgotten terrorist front in the Philippines. Since 9/11, the U.S. has stationed 500 to 600 troops in the Philippines to strengthen military forces there. The U.S. counter-insurgency effort in the Philippines has been applauded as a success story for its mix of military action and soft power — including one of the largest USAID packages in the world. But how lasting is this counter-insurgency success? Does it solve the root problems of poverty and lack of schools and infrastructure? And, if the U.S. pulls out, is the Philippines prepared to stop the tide of terrorism? The U.S. strategy has been to root out terrorists from the lawless jungles of the south, which is home to the country’s Muslim minority and vulnerable to external terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. The show: •explains the current insurgency in the poor, predominantly Muslim south of the Philippines •evaluates how Filipino counter-insurgency tactics measure up to other Southeast Asian counter-insurgency efforts •examines the mix of U.S. military might, diplomacy and humanitarian aid to combat local and regional instability •discusses the importance of peace and reconciliation between the numerous Filipino ethnic groups Martin Savidge hosts the following guests: Zachary Abuza is a professor at Simmons College, Boston, specializing in Southeast Asian politics and security issues. He visits the region four to five times a year. Zachary is the author of Conspiracy of Silence: The Insurgency in Southern Thailand and its Implications for Southeast Asian Security, Muslims, Politics and Violence in Indonesia and Militant Islam in Southeast Asia, among other publications. He contributes frequently to the Jane’s Intelligence Review, the Counterterrorism Blog and the Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor. Father Eliseo “Jun” Mercado, Jr. is a Catholic priest and peace advocate who has been extensively involved in the peace process in Mindanao, the southern part of the Philippines. He is an expert on the role of Islam in the Philippines and led the independent cease-fire between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front separatist group. Father Mercado has also been extensively involved in peace process in Mindanao. In October 2007, he was selected to be one of the 20 delegates representing all NGO and CSO accredited at the UN to the High Level UN Session on inter-religious dialogue.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:41:21 PM
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Terrorism in the Philippines - No Easy Answers ....................................................... By Patricia H. Kushlis Friday, 02 October 2009 whirledview.typepad.com The New York Times’ article “Curbed in Island Towns, Islamists in Philippines Take to Forests” published on September 26, 2009 by Norimitsu Onishi reporting from Lamitan, a small Christian enclave on the largely Muslim island of Basilan, is just additional evidence that not much has changed since the Bush administration sent 600 US troops, $100 million in military and counter-terrorism assistance and $55 million in economic and social assistance to the southern Philippines in 2002 to help the Philippine government eliminate Abu Sayyaf, a lethal band of Islamist kidnap-for-ransom extortionists, based in this mostly Muslim part of the country.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:44:54 PM
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Teacher beheaded in Philippines Police in the southern Philippines say the severed head of a kidnapped schoolteacher has been found in a bag at a petrol station. BBC Monday, 9 November 2009 news.bbc.co.uk Gabriel Canizares was abducted by Abu Sayyaf militants three weeks ago. His body is still missing. He was travelling with colleagues on the island of Jolo when he was seized. The militants had demanded a ransom equivalent to $42,000 (£25,000; 28,000 euros) for Mr Canizares, which his family refused to pay. Security fears Education Secretary Jesli Lapus expressed shock at the teacher's killing, saying six other teachers who had been kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf earlier this year had all been released despite threats to behead them. He said his department was at a loss as to how to ensure security for public schoolteachers in high-risk areas, and feared that the kidnappings would discourage others from teaching underprivileged youths in Muslim areas. "We shall make them pay for the enormity of this savagery," President Gloria Arroyo's spokeswoman Lorelei Fajardo said in a statement after Mr Canizares' head was found. She said Mrs Arroyo had ordered "punitive action" to "put an end to the Abu Sayyaf group's heinous and inhumane atrocities". "The people of Jolo are condemning this dastardly act," Jolo municipal mayor Hussin Amin said in a television interview aired in Manila. The beheading came three days before a visit to Manila by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when security issues are expected to be a key topic. Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for many of the country's worst terrorist attacks, including the firebombing of a ferry in Manila Bay that claimed more than 100 lives in 2005, and the abduction of American tourists in 2001. A land mine explosion under a military convoy carrying American troops on 29 September killed two US Army Special Forces soldiers - the first US military deaths in the southern Philippines in seven years. About 600 US troops are currently stationed in the south for training and humanitarian missions, but are barred by Philippine law from engaging in direct combat.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:46:02 PM
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Abu Sayyaf is one of the smallest but deadliest Islamist militant groups in the largely Roman Catholic Philippines. Established in the early 1990s, it has kidnapped dozens of foreign aid workers, missionaries and tourists in the south and was blamed for the country's worst terrorist strike, the bombing of a ferry in 2004 that killed more than 100 people. news.bbc.co.uk

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (299225)	12/20/2010 8:49:44 PM
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Philippines: Islamist militants blamed for beheadings ............................................................ adnkronos.com Manila, 12 June (AKI) - Islamist militants from the separatist Abu Sayyaf group have beheaded three civilians in the southern Philippines, the military officials said on Saturday. The three men were gathering wood near Maluso on the island of Basilan on Friday when they were abducted and executed by militants, Brigadier-General Eugene Clemen, a local marine commander, said. "We received reports this morning the three lumberjacks had been beheaded," Clemen said. The execution came less than two weeks after the group led Puruji Indama killed three people abducted in the nearby Sumisip town. Troops had been sent to search for the men's bodies, Clemen said. A Muslim insurgency in the south of the predominantly Catholic country is one of the problems facing the new government of president-elect Benigno Aquino III when he takes office later this month.