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Military stumbles upon rebel leader’s love affair

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MANILA, Philippines?A love triangle involving a ranking New People’s Army leader and a suspected NPA member was inadvertently unearthed with the capture of Tirso Alcantara, commander of the communist armed rebel group’s Southern Tagalog operations. Read More

Investigator welcomes reopening of Glorietta blast probe

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MANILA, Philippines?A former police officer who led the investigation of the 2007 Glorietta 2 explosion welcomed calls for a reinvestigation of the incident after the leader of an Army Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit claimed that the official probe was a cover-up. But retired police Director Geary Barias, who was chief of the National Capital Region Police Office at the time, stood by the findings of a multi-agency task force that investigated the blast and insisted it was caused by… Read More

Gunmen kill left-wing activist in Philippines

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MANILA, Philippines – Gunmen killed the leader of a left-wing party in the Philippines on Monday, one week after President Benigno Aquino III took office vowing to put an end to political assassinations. Read More

PortaSwitch Procinctus Provides Class 5 Hosted IP on Three Continents for Cordia Communications

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Filipino abductors free 10 hostages, want murder charges dropped before releasing 47 others

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MANILA, Philippines – Government-armed former militiamen freed 10 more hostages seized in the remote southern Philippines, and their leader demanded Friday that murder charges against them be dropped before they release 47 others. The abductions Thursday by 15 gunmen raised new questions over the Philippines’ long-standing policy of arming civilian volunteers to protect against insurgencies. Just a day earlier, 100 other militiamen in the south were named suspects in the killing of 57 people in the country’s worst political massacre, prompting the government to order a review of its security policy Read More

Damaged goods

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By Alejandro LichaucoANALYSIS 09/24/2009 Fidel V. Read More

Fiction, part 2

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MR. EXPOSE 09/24/2009 In his first privilege speech last week, Sen. Ping Lacson charged President Estrada of using soldiers to harass and coerce Alfonso Yuchengco to sell his PTIC (PLDT) shares to First Pacific, a corporation headed by Manuel V Read More

More of the same for Baitullah’s fighters

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By Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD – With speculation still swirling over the fate of the leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baitullah Mehsud, possibly killed in a US Predator drone attack in the South Waziristan tribal area last Wednesday, the viability of his group has come into question. Some analysts say the TTP, the main Taliban militant umbrella group in Pakistan primarily in conflict with the central government, will fall apart and that its various groups will operate as stand-alone outfits. The Pakistan army’s Inter-Services Public Relations Department has also weighed in with some stories about the TTP, which need Read More