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In accusing a Filipino general of colluding with the Abu Sayyaf bandit group, Gracia Burnham has joined at least two other former hostages who have made the same claim.

Former Abu Sayyaf hostage Raul Recio agreed with Burnham that there was indeed Abu Sayyaf-military collusion, as claimed by Burnham in her newly released book on her captivity by the Abu Sayyaf, In the Presence of My Enemies.
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The 500-person “humanitarian mission” the Arroyo government insists on sending to Iraq may not have any legal basis at all in that no one asked for it: not the U.N., not the Iraqis who now have no government to call their own, and not even Iraq’s current overlord, the United States.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of lawless violence in Davao City and surroundings last April 2. Apparently, however, it’s not only Davao or just other parts of Mindanao that’s in that state. There’s also Mindoro, where early this week two human rights activists among five who had been abducted were murdered.
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As expected, the overwhelming military might of the United States and its partners is prevailing over the troops of Saddam Hussein.
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The U.S. justifications for attacking Iraq?which have metamorphosed into just one today, and that is, to “liberate” the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein?have not been convincing except to the converted.
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The Philippine government declared last week its support for the US attack on Iraq after a few days of feigned agony over the issue. That its agony was feigned was evident from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s statements, made since a month ago, that were clearly supportive of the US position on the Iraqi crisis.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced the other day during a TV interview that the Philippine government had created a P500 million fund. Called the Mindanao Peace and Development Fund, Mrs. Arroyo made it clear that the Fund would be used for—war.

The Fund, she said during its Malacañang launch in a speech worthy of Orwell’s 1984, would be “a big step” in fighting “terrorism” because it would make the Armed Forces and the police “even more effective.”
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