Posts Tagged by rebel

MILF’s Eid Kabalu takes back position of spokesman

ILIGAN CITY, Philippines?The leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has reinstated Eid Kabalu as its spokesman for military affairs, a news release from the rebel group said… Read More

2 killed in CamSur encounter

LAGONOY, Camarines Sur ? A soldier and a suspected New People’s Army rebel died Saturday afternoon in an encounter in Lagonoy town in Camarines Sur, an Army official said in a report… Read More

Unrealistic

FRONTLINE 02/20/2010 Can an incumbent president bind her successor to what she agrees to with an Islamic secessionist group, by way of a ?package of obligations?? The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which has nixed a peace accord with Gloria Arroyo, apparently thinks so, as the rebel group is now saying that the peace deal it seeks with the government can push through with the incoming government as long as whatever is promised by Arroyo to them before she leaves Malaca Read More

Getting away with charges

BACKBENCHER 02/20/2010 Maybe it is a waste of time for presidential candidate Sen. Manuel ?Manny? Villar to push his luck in wanting to become president of this seemingly God-forsaken land of ours. We can be candid in our opinion not because we have an accurate assessment that he will not make it, but the hard truth that even if elected, there remains a serious pending charge against him. Read More