Boosting Counter-Terrorism in Mindanao

June 21, 2005

Marites Danguilan Vitug

  • Editor in chief of Newsbreak Magazine in Manila.

    IN Southeast Asia, terrorists don't usually operate on their own. This is evident in the Philippines where the Jamaah Islamiyah links up with local radical groups, either an insurgency movement like the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) or an extremist fringe like the Abu Sayyaf which works with militant Muslim converts.

    Intelligence officials in Manila say the

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