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                    [ArticleID] => 579115
                    [Title] => Rep. GMA to push Mindanao peace
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President Arroyo bared yesterday some of her legislative priorities when she assumes her new post as congresswoman of the second district of Pampanga, which would include measures to promote lasting peace in Mindanao.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 270562 [Title] => Pirates snatch 1 Pinoy, 2 Japanese seamen [Summary] => KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Three crewmen were kidnapped after a Japanese tugboat was attacked by pirates in the Malacca Strait late Monday, three days after a gas tanker came under a similar attack in the area, a piracy watchdog group said Monday.

"The tugboat’s crew put out a distress call. The attack is going on now," Noel Choong, regional manager of the Piracy Reporting Centre of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), told AFP at 7:20 p.m. (1120 GMT).
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245884 [Title] => Salamat’s legacy: MILF ties with JI [Summary] => PAGADIAN CITY — Hashim Salamat, the late founder of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, is gone but the links he forged with international fundamentalist organizations have become so strong that Muslim residents in many areas in Mindanao can see not only Arab-looking men, but Indonesians as well, in MILF camps built after his demise last year.

Salamat died last year from a heart attack.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226374 [Title] => New guerrilla training camp reported in Maguindanao [Summary] => Peace advocates want the government to first investigate the reported existence of a new training camp allegedly of combined Jemaah Islamiyah and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) recruits in a hinterland area northeast of Camp Abubakar in Maguindanao, before resuming formal peace talks with the separatist group.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226279 [Title] => RP ports sites of record number of pirate attacks [Summary] => KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Philippine ports are sites of a record number of pirate attacks, the maritime watchdog International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said yesterday.

As pirate attacks on seafarers worldwide hit a new high in the first nine months of the year, the IMB said the ports of Manila, Callao, Chennai, Chittagong, Dakar and Lagos continued to record a high number of attacks.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204150 [Title] => Jakarta, Mindanao bombings linked? [Summary] => President Arroyo vowed yesterday to help Indonesia hunt down the "terrorists" behind last Sunday’s Jakarta airport bombing that wounded 11 people.

She did not rule out the possibility that the attack may be connected to recent terrorist bombings in Mindanao, including one at Davao City’s international airport last March 4.

"Terrorism has shuttled between Indonesia and the Philippines, and we are both determined to fight it tactically and strategically," Mrs. Arroyo said in a statement, condemning the attack. [DatePublished] => 2003-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 189522 [Title] => RP may reduce troops in Aceh [Summary] => President Arroyo might cut the number of Filipino troops deployed as peace monitors in Indonesia’s rebellious Aceh province after a separatist leader questioned the neutrality of the Philippine government.

However, Presidential Spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao said Mrs. Arroyo has not yet decided whether to withdraw or reduce the number of Filipino troops in Aceh.

"Not really withdrawing but we are emphasizing that we’re invited there on the basis of our being neutral and that is a very accurate assumption," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 189391 [Title] => Aceh rebels reject RP peace monitors [Summary] => BANDA ACEH (AFP) – Two more deaths were reported yesterday in Indonesia’s troubled Aceh province despite a ceasefire pact as separatist rebels voiced their objection to peace monitors from the Philippines.

The bodies of two civilians believed murdered were found on Wednesday in separate locations in Aceh, humanitarian workers told AFP.

Meanwhile, a senior member of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Sofyan Ibrahim Tiba, said his group rejected Philippine peace monitors on the ground. He said they were not expected to be neutral.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 188368 [Title] => AFP prepares to send 8-man peacekeeping team to Aceh [Summary] => An advance team of military observers prepared to leave for Indonesia’s Aceh province yesterday to monitor a peace accord between government troops and separatist rebels.

The eight-man team is the first of 25 military observers from the Philippines who will join a multinational force of 150 peace monitors in the troubled province, where a peace deal recently brought an end to a 26-year civil war.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 148592 [Title] => Bail for 2 ‘al-Qaeda men’ OK’d [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — A General Santos City court has allowed two suspected Filipino members of the al-Qaeda international terrorist network, who yielded a ton of explosives and 19 M-16 assault rifles during a raid on their hideout early this month, to post P200,000 bail each.

The Mindanao Cross, a Catholic newspaper, reported yesterday that the suspects, Mohammad Al-Moqtar and Maulidin Malagat, may soon be free if they can raise the amount.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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