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JIhad |
Bali Bomber Reportedly Found Dead In Philippines -- A body believed to be that of Indonesian terrorist leader Dulmatin, wanted for the October 2002 Bali bombings, was recovered Monday afternoon by a joint military team in Tawi-Tawi province. Thes said the corpse was jointly identified by informants with notable wounds in the head, chest and right foot to include clothing in physical characteristics matched with previous revelations. |
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2/18/2008 |
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Philippines |
Officials Uncover Al Qaeda Plot To Assassinate Philippines President -- Security officials on Thursday reported uncovering plots to kill President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and bomb foreign embassies, just as opposition leaders were calling for more protests urging the unpopular Philippines leader to resign. Brig. Gen. Romeo Prestoza, head of the Presidential Security Group, said the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group and its allies were behind the planned attacks. |
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2/14/2008 |
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Largest Muslim Rebel Group "On A War Footing'" -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group (photo), has announced it is ready for war, if attacked. |
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1/11/2008 |
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Philippine Government Drafts Constitutional Amendment To Create Muslim Homeland -- This definition of what is called "the territory" is part of larger peace negotiations between the government the MILF, and was due to be formalized on December 15. |
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1/9/2008 |
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Jihad |
Man Arrested With "Christmas Day" Bomb -- POLICE in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato have arrested an Egyptian man allegedly plotting a bomb attack on Christmas day. The suspect, identified as Egyptian national Mohamad Sayed, was arrested during a raid on an apartment inside the Majad Islamic School in Cotabato. |
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12/19/2007 |
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Dhimmi |
Philippines in "Separatist deal" -- The Philippines government says it has reached an agreement with the country's main Islamic separatist group on boundaries for a Muslim homeland. |
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11/15/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Blast Rocks Phillippines’ Congress -- At least two people have been killed and six were injured after a powerful bomb blast ripped through the South Wing entrance of the Phillippines’ House of Representatives. The blast occured on Tuesday evening local time, just moments after a session ended. |
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11/13/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Ten Dead, 120 Injured in Manila Mall Bombing -- Norberto Gonzales, the president’s security adviser, said they had received an intelligence report that Abu Sayyaf was trying to raise funds abroad using the internet site YouTube and the blast could be used as part of this campaign. |
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10/21/2007 |
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Jemaah Islamiyah |
Gov’t Agents Foil Terror Plot by JI -- Government security forces foiled what could have been another bloody attack in Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat when they arrested a suspect linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) on Friday, military authorities said yesterday. The arrest of suspect Badrudin Guilison, who yielded three 60-mm shells when frisked, came a few days after Washington warned its citizens against traveling to Mindanao. |
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8/21/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Government Troops, Jihadists Killed in Southern Philippines -- Philippine military officials say 16 troops and about 30 Muslim extremists have been killed in clashes in the southern Philippines. The fighting was one of the bloodiest clashes on Basilan since 14 marines were killed in an ambush last month. |
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8/19/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Philippines Braces for Escalation -- A major military escalation on Jolo island in the southern Philippines threatens to undermine fragile relations with major insurgent groups and contribute to rising regional inter-faith tensions. A decision to end the policy of rapprochement with the rebels could unravel earlier post-peace deal achievements, and as such, planned August peace talks in Malaysia should be welcomed and encouraged by all stakeholders. |
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8/15/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Philippines Battles Extremists -- Violent Islamic extremist groups in the Philippines have killed or wounded more than one-thousand-seven-hundred people during the past seven years, according to Human Rights Watch, an independent human rights monitor. John Sifton, senior researcher on terrorism for Human Rights Watch, said that in the Philippines two Muslim terrorist organizations, the Abu Sayyaf Group and the Rajah Solaiman Movement, "have committed crimes on a massive scale." |
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8/15/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
U.S. Embassy Warns of Terrorist Attack in South Philippines -- The U.S. Embassy in Manila warned U.S. nationals on Monday against terrorist threat in Mindanao, southern Philippines. The embassy said in a notice posted on its website that terrorist threats may affect public places like bus terminals and shopping malls in central Mindanao, especially in Cotabato City there. The embassy also advised Americans living and working in central Mindanao to "reassess their personal security and to keep a low profile" and to avoid public gathering places. |
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8/13/2007 |
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Philippine Military Rushes Troops To Battle Islamic Militants in the South -- The Philippine government has relocated its military headquarters and stepped up its offensive against Islamic extremists in the south, sending hundreds of additional troops to the province of Sulu, where fighting in recent days left at least 25 Philippine soldiers dead.
A similar number of militants from the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf and the Moro National Liberation Front were killed in two fierce gunbattles after an ambush on a military convoy on Jolo Island, in the same province, on Thursday. |
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8/12/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Officials: 57 Killed in Clash With Al Qaeda-Linked Militants in Philippines -- Clashes between troops and suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants have killed at least 57 people and wounded 42 others on volatile southern Jolo island this week, the Philippine military said Friday. The death toll included 25 soldiers and 27 militants killed Thursday when suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists ambushed a truck carrying troops headed to get supplies, then fought a running gunbattle with soldiers in pursuit, said Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro, the military's spokesman. |
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8/10/2007 |
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Killers Swapped Messages with Wife of Marine -- AFTER her husband Marine Private First Class Reuben S. Doronio Jr. was killed in an ambush in Basilan last July 10, Jomarie Doronio received several text messages from her husband’s killers. One of them asked if he could befriend her. The others inquired about her well-being. |
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7/17/2007 |
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Philippine President Vows to Hunt Down Perpetrators of Beheadings -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo vowed on Thursday to hunt down those who killed 14 marines and beheaded 10 of them following an encounter between Moro rebels and the Philippine Marines in the southern Philippines. |
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7/12/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Rebels (Muslims) Behead Philippine Troops -- Islamic militants in the southern Philippines have killed 14 marines, beheading 10 of them, a military spokesman has said. |
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7/11/2007 |
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
The defeat of the leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MNLF) Nur Misuari in the Sulu archipelago's gubernatorial race could be a setback for peace |
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5/22/2007 |
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Islamofascism |
Blast in bus terminal in Philippine south, 13 hurt |
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5/18/2007 |
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Philippines warned of terror attack. |
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4/24/2007 |
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Abu Sayyef |
Philippine group beheads hostages |
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4/20/2007 |
