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• Mixed reactions to AFP ‘humanitarian offensive’

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:10 am

  Tags: Human Rights, Governance, In The News, Abu Sayyaf, Armed Forces Of The Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Humanitarian Offensive, Karapatan, Mindanao Peaceweavers, Philippines

  IN line with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s order to launch a “humanitarian offensive” in Basilan and Sulu, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has recently created the National Development Command (NDC) — a move that has drawn mixed reactions from human rights workers and peace advocates. The Mindanao

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• 9 Killed in Blast at Manila Shopping Mall

  Published: October 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Killed, Blast, Manila, Shopping, Mall, Abu Sayyaf Group, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Manila Bay, Mario Em, Norberto Gonzales Jr, Raynold Rosero, Al Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiya, Philippine Bomb Data Center

  MANILA, Oct. 19 -- A powerful blast ripped through three floors of a shopping mall in the Makati commercial district of Manila on Friday, killing nine people and injuring more than 100, authorities said.

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• Marietta Bomb Blast Leaves Too Many Questions

  Published: October 20, 2007, 3:08 am

  Tags: Books Movies Media, Southeast Asia, Wmd, Abu Sayyaf, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Manila, Marietta, Philippines, Plastic Explosives, Rdx, Shopping Mall, Terrorism

  administration is blaming Abu Sayyaf for a bomb blast at a upscale shopping mall in Manila because of an investigation revealing the presence of a military-grade explosive, RDX. Speculation is increasing, including plenty of theories and eyewitness accounts from MLQIII and Postcard Headlines. Caffeine Sparks also has plenty of eyewitness

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• 14 Convicted In Abduction At Resort in Philippines

  Published: December 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Convicted, Abduction, Resort, Philippines, Martin Burnham, United States, Abu Sayyaf Group, California, Florida, Gracia Burnham, Manila, Palawan, Robert Courtney, Al Qaeda, U S Department Of Justice

  MANILA, Dec. 6 -- A Philippine court convicted 14 Muslim radicals Thursday and sentenced them to life in prison for abducting a U.S. missionary couple and 18 others in kidnappings in 2001 that led to the deaths of one of the missionaries, another American and other hostages.

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• GMA Orders AFP, PNP to Locate 3 ABS-CBN TV Crew

  Published: June 10, 2008, 2:27 am

  Tags: News, Abs Cbn, Abu Sayyaf, Ces Drillon

  President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has instructed the Armed Forces and National Police to exhaust all means in locating and securing the “missing” group of broadcast journalist Cecilia Victoria “Ces” Ore a-Drilon in Sulu. (more…)

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• Ces Drillon and 2 ABS-CBN Cameramen Missing in Sulu

  Published: June 10, 2008, 2:23 am

  Tags: Headlines, Kapamilya, News, Abs Cbn, Abu Sayyaf, Ces Drillon

  ABS-CBN corporation has released an official statement confirming that their three journalists namely Ces Drillon, Jimmy Encarnacion and Angelo Valderama are missing in Sulu. (more…)

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• Ces Drilon, Jimmy Encarnacion Released by Kidnappers

  Published: June 18, 2008, 12:15 am

  Tags: Headlines, News, Abu Sayyaf, Ces Drilon, Jimmy Encarnacion

  ABS-CBN senior correspondent Ces Ore a Drilon, her cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion, and their guide, Prof. Octavio Dinampo were released by their abductors in Sulu province Tuesday night. (more…)

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• Staying alive

  Published: June 19, 2008, 11:11 am

  Tags: In The News, Media Issues, Abs Cbn, Abu Sayyaf, Ces Drilon, Freedom Fund For Filipino Journalists, Jolo, Journalists, Pcij, Philippines

  ordeal as a captive of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu. Presented to the media at yesterday’s press conference following her release, a remorseful Drilon blamed herself for endangering not only her life but those of her companions — cameramen Jimmy Encarnacion, Angelo Valderama, and Mindanao State University professor Octavio Dinampo —

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• What's common in C-130 plane crash, Sulpicio Lines' sinking & the MOA-ancestral domain controversy

  Published: August 31, 2008, 7:39 pm

  Tags: Totie Mesia, Milf, Military, Martin Burnham, C 130, Sulpicio Lines, Justice, Philippines, Navy, Abu Sayyaf, Death, Moa Ad, Philippine Airforce, Airforce, Abu Sabaya, Crash, Laws, Moa

  The Philippine Air Force (PAF) symbolic coffins of people presumed dead in a C-130 cargo plane crash bring a message. Barely a week has passed that the 9 military personnel went missing. Many think... You are part of the growing UP Ibalon Web Community (www.upibalon.com).

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