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                    [Title] => ‘RP has most number of terror groups in SEA’
                    [Summary] => A United States-based non-government organization has reported that the Philippines has the most number of terrorist groups in Southeast Asia and Oceania.


The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) posted this report on its terrorism knowledge base website. According to the MIPT, there are 11 known terrorist groups in the Philippines.

With 38 such groups listed in the Asia and Oceania region, the Philippines is just ahead of Indonesia’s 10 terrorist groups and Malaysia’s nine.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 296495 [Title] => Gullas pushes anti-terror bill [Summary] => Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas has sought the help of his colleagues in Congress in expediting the passage of a tough new anti-terrorism measure, as he said, that based on a new US government report, the Philippines now has the most number of known terrorist groups, among eight countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Gullas said the US National Counterterrorism Center, the primary office for US government analysis of international terrorism, has listed at least 11 foreign and indigenous terrorist groups now operating in the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 197453 [Title] => Vice mayor survives ambush [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — The vice mayor of a hinterland town here survived an ambush by suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels the other day.

The attack on Vice Mayor Antonio Gunsi of South Upi town, however, left his driver and one of his security men badly wounded, said Capt. Onting Alon, deputy civil-military relations chief of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 186384 [Title] => Soldier faces probe for harassing 2 Germans [Summary] => SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao — Two visiting German nationals inspecting a foreign-funded education program for Tiruray children here will return to Germany with a sad story to tell — that of being harassed by a soldier, who suspected them to be international terrorists, while they surveyed their project site here over the weekend.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185195 [Title] => Killings in Tiruray land over property row alarms Church [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — The Catholic community yesterday called on the police and military to promptly intervene in the spate of killings in Maguindanao’s South Upi town, regarded as the "last frontier" of the Tiruray natives.

A 50-year-old Tiruray tribesman was killed while three others were wounded when suspected partisans raked with combat rifles a World War II vintage 6x6 truck carrying high school students on their way to their hinterland village from the town proper of South Upi, Maguindanao Thursday night.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 170356 [Title] => Ex-MILF men blamed: ‘Armed lumad group not behind bombings’ [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol blamed yesterday a group of kidnappers, who used to belong to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and not the Indigenous People’s Federal Army (IPFA) for Monday’s bomb attacks in his hometown of Mlang. [DatePublished] => 2002-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 170238 [Title] => Bomb attacks cloud revelry in North Cotabato; IPFA blamed [Summary] => COTABATO CITY Two powerful bomb attacks perpetrated by the Indigenous People’s Federal Army (IPFA) marred the other day’s town foundation day revelry in Mlang, a historic town in the second district of North Cotabato. [DatePublished] => 2002-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 167761 [Title] => Military Warns Indigenous Army: ‘Don’t use firepower to further your cause’ [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — The Indigenous People’s Federal Army (IPFA) has the right to air its sentiments, but should not resort to the use of firepower in furthering its cause, a military spokesman said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 167618 [Title] => IFPA calls on gov’t to amend Charter [Summary] => SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao — The obscure Indigenous People’s Federal Army (IFPA) called on the national government the other day to amend the Charter to allow extensive involvement of the country’s tribal folk in exercising their "right to self-determination" and maximize the efforts of preserving their ancestral lands, culture and traditions. [DatePublished] => 2002-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166875 [Title] => MNLF group blocks meeting of indigenous people’s army [Summary] => SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao — As if taunting the obscure Indigenous People’s Federal Army (IPFA), members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) blocked what could have been the first clandestine meeting here last Sunday of the former group’s leaders, including its strategist, Roger Adamat, with selected members of the media.

The IPFA was tagged as behind hoax bombs found in Metro Manila and parts of the Visayas and Mindanao last January to dramatize its bid for the involvement of indigenous people in governance.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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