Japanese foreign affairs exec meets MILF leaders

August 31, 2006
Updated 18:25:59 (Mla time)
Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer
COTABATO CITY — Japan’s minister of foreign affairs for Southeast Asia on Wednesday met with top leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in their camp in Maguindanao to personally relay his country’s decision to send a development expert to become part of the International Monitoring Team (IMT) [...]

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MILF backs gov’t birth-spacing program

 
By Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer
Last updated 05:00pm (Mla time) 12/03/2006
 
COTABATO CITY — Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have urged their fellow Muslims in Mindanao to practice the government’s birth-spacing program.
MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu told reporters Saturday there was nothing wrong with the program because it was supported by the Dar’ul Iftah, an organization of [...]

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Grenade injures 4 kids in South Cotabato market

Inquirer
Last updated 06:20am (Mla time) 06/30/2007
KORONADAL CITY—At least four children were injured in an explosion at the public market in Barangay Lamian in Surallah, South Cotabato around 5 p.m. on Thursday, police said yesterday.
Supt. Robert Kiunisala, South Cotabato police director, said the explosion was caused by a rifle grenade, which a group of children had [...]

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Bossi captors demand P15-M ransom–MILF chief negotiator

By Jeoffrey Maitem, Julie Alipala
Mindanao BureauLast updated 02:17pm (Mla time) 06/27/2007 
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines — Moro gunmen holding Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi are demanding P15 million in ransom money in exchange for releasing their captive, Mohagher Iqbal, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chief negotiator, said on Wednesday. 
Iqbal said their “troops on the ground” have reported the [...]

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(UPDATE 2) Bossi alive, kidnappers say in text to emissary

By Julie Alipala, Jeoffrey Maitem, Joel GuintoMindanao Bureau, INQUIRER.net
Last updated 03:58pm (Mla time) 06/26/2007 
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — The abductors of Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi have sent a text message to a government emissary that their captive was alive, a Marine general said on Tuesday. 
But Brigadier General Benjamin Dolorfino, chairman of the government’s Ad Hoc Joint [...]

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(UPDATE) 1 slain in attack on North Cotabato mayor’s home

By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau Last updated 02:31pm (Mla time) 06/26/2007  
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines — Unidentified armed men attacked the home of a North Cotabato town mayor on Monday, killing a civilian, police said on Tuesday. 
The attack on the residence of outgoing Banisilan Mayor Floro Alladooccurred around 10:30 a.m. 
Allado was inside his residence during the attack [...]

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Ex-general named chief gov’t peace negotiator with MILF

By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau, Last updated 01:58pm (Mla time) 06/26/2007
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines — Former Armed Forces vice chief of staff Rodolo Garcia has been appointed the government’s new chief negotiator to peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the head of the rebel’s negotiating panel said Tuesday. 
“I was informed early today [Wednesday] by an [...]

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1 slain in attack on North Cotabato mayor’s home

By Jeoffrey Maitem Mindanao Bureau, Last updated 01:36pm (Mla time) 06/26/2007 
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines — Unidentified armed men attacked the home of a North Cotabato town mayor on Monday, killing a civilian, police said on Tuesday. 
The attack on the residence of outgoing Banisilan Mayor Floro Alladooccurred around 10:30 a.m. 
Allado was inside his residence during the attack [...]

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Priest out as chief peace negotiator

Jeoffrey Maitem Mindanao Bureau
June 21, 2007 Updated 01:16:13 (Mla time)
MANILA, Philippines – President Macapagal-Arroyo’s peace adviser said the Catholic priest who, he claimed, had been appointed chief peace negotiator with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front had backed out from the post. 
Jesus Dureza, who earlier reported that Fr. Eliseo Mercado, OMI, had been appointed to [...]

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MILF: ‘Italian priest’s abductors Abu Sayyaf’

By Julie Alipala, Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau Last updated 07:09pm (Mla time) 06/11/2007 
ZAMBOANGA CITY — Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi was kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf bandits, a ranking official of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said. 
Mohagher Iqbal, chief negotiator for the MILF, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, parent company of INQUIRER.net, that Abdusalam Akiddin alias Commander [...]

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