MILF sees no peace pact this year

By Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer Last updated 06:00pm (Mla time) 08/01/2006
COTABATO CITY – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) does not see a peace agreement with the government being signed within this year because the government has not responded to their counter-proposal on the proposed territory of the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE).
The government had proposed an [...]

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PHILIPPINES: THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS DISPLACED BY FIGHTING IN MINDANAO

Midsayap, North Cotabato, Jan. 29 (AKI) – Thousands of residents were displaced in last week’s fighting between Filipino security forces and Muslim rebels in the southern Filipino town of Midsayap, a representative of the Red Cross told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Monday.
JeanLuk Jolial, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross sub-delegation, said [...]

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PHILIPPINES: REPORT QUESTIONS MILITARY CLAIM THAT U.S. USES ‘SOFT APPROACH’ IN MUSLIM MINDANAO

Cotabato City, 31 Jan. (AKI) – In the Philippines’s southern province of Maguindanao, where al-Qaeda affiliated militants and Muslim rebels are active, American soldiers are making use of a soft approach in order to win the hearts of local Muslims and gain their support in the global war on terror, a Filipino military official told [...]

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TERRORISM: U.S. ASKS PHILIPPINES MUSLIM REBELS FOR HELP

 Cotabato City, 16 Feb. (AKI) – Washington has asked the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group for help in the hunt for militants from the al-Qaeda affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah [JI] who are active in southern Philippines.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) vice chair for political affairs, Ghadzali Jaafar, told Adnkronos International (AKI) that US deputy head of [...]

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MUSLIM INSURGENTS URGES FELLOW MUSLIMS IN SOUTH TO PRACTICE MANILA’S BIRTH SPACING PROGRAM.

Cotabato City, 27 November (AKI) – In an effort to slow down the ballooning of the country’s population, the Philippines largest Muslim rebels has urged all Filipino Muslims to observe Manila’s birth spacing program. 
Eid Kabalu, spokesperson for the 11,900 strong Moro Islamic liberation Front (MILF), told AdnKronos International that the Assembly of Darul-Iftah, an organization [...]

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PHILIPPINES: TERRORISTS TRAINED MUSLIM REBELS SAYS ARMY OFFICIAL

Cotabato City, 20 Nov. (AKI) – A Filipino intelligence official has said that al-Qaeda affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants trained four local Muslim rebel commanders to carry out a series of bomb attacks in the southern Philippines.
Army Captain Carlos Sol told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the four rebels, Manap Medtang, Abdul Nasser, Jabidi Abdul [...]

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Remote control bomb wounds 10 in terminal

By Jeoffrey Maitem, Edwin Fernandez 
Inquirer, Last updated 04:02am (Mla time) 06/09/2007
MANILA, Philippines – Suspected Islamic militants remotely detonated a powerful bomb in a bus parked at a terminal in Cotabato Friday, wounding at least 10 people, police said.
 The device was placed in a carton at the back of the bus, police said. The blast seriously wounded [...]

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US experts find no traces of JI work in N. Cotabato blast

US experts find no traces of JI work in N. Cotabato blast
By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau Last updated 05:14pm (Mla time) 06/10/2007 
COTABATO CITY — Bomb experts sent by Washington have not found any evidence to show that the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah was behind the bomb blast in a bus parked at a terminal in Matalam, North [...]

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US helps bombing probe: 2 FBI experts sent to N. Cotabato after blast

US helps bombing probe: 2 FBI experts sent to N. Cotabato after blast
By Jeoffrey Maitem, Eldie Aguirre
Inquirer Last updated 03:42am (Mla time) 06/10/2007 
COTABATO CITY, Philippines—The US government has dispatched two bomb experts to help Philippine authorities in the investigation of the Friday explosion aboard a passenger bus in a terminal in Matalam, North Cotabato. I
nsp. Elias [...]

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Cotabato car bomb disarmed

Cotabato car bomb disarmed  
By Jeoffrey MaitemInquirerLast updated 08:47pm (Mla time) 06/13/2007 
SURALLAH, South Cotabato — Alert civilians here on Wednesday helped authorities prevent what could have been another bloody day for Central Mindanao as explosives experts successfully disarmed what was described as a car bomb designed to inflict maximum damage and injuries. 
Superintendent Roberto Kiunisala, South [...]

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