The furthest extent of the Islam empire reached into Mindanao.
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- Bojinka plan by 9/11 co-conspirators Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to assassinate the pope and blow up a dozen airliners over the Pacific with liquid explosives.
Graffiti near the front gate of Camp Navarro in Zamboanga urges U.S. troops to leave the area. Members of the U.S. task force at the camp keep a low public profile while advising the Armed Forces of the Philippines in its battle against transnational terrorist groups.
the definition of terrorism used is drawn from the United Nations General Assembly condemnation of "Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them," is used.[6]
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- A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. joined the Philippines’ battle against al-Qaida-linked groups in the country’s impoverished southern Mindanao region, calling it a new front in the war on terrorism.A decade later, the number of terrorists has been winnowed down to a few hundred, their major leaders are dead and movements are confined primarily to the dense southern jungles on the islands of Jolo and Basilan.“This has been a success story over here in the Philippines,” said Col. Mark Miller, commander of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, established in 2002 after the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group carried out a mass kidnapping at an upscale resort that included three Americans and dragged on for a year.One of the Americans, Guillermo Sobero, was beheaded shortly after the abduction. Missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham of Wichita, Kan., were dragged through the jungle the entire time. Martin was killed during the Philippine military’s rescue effort that ended the saga. Gracia Burnham was wounded but survived.the country’s past links to international attacks.“A lot of the plots that were hatched in the ’90s traced their roots or traced some transitory piece through the Philippines,” Miller said. “Either there was some planning conducted or it was a safe haven.”Those plots included the foiled Bojinka plan by 9/11 co-conspirators Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to assassinate the pope and blow up a dozen airliners over the Pacific with liquid explosives.in mid-September when about 3,000 Filipino Muslims burned U.S. and Israeli flags to protest the anti-Islam film that triggered large demonstrations and violence in other parts of the world.
In the Philippines, protesters carried placards saying, “Americans are satanic” and “Israeli Jews ... enemy of Muslim Ummah (community),” according to media reports. No Americans were injured..Islamists
- Mindanao. History. In the middle of the 14th cent. Islam spread from Malaya and Borneo to the Sulu Archipelago, and from there to Mindanao.The arrival of the Spanish in the late 16th cent. united the various Muslim groups in a war against the conquerors that lasted some 300 years. The Moros likewise resisted American domination; fighting between U.S. garrisons and Muslim groups occurred early in the 20th cent.
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Poor and lawless, the southern Philippine region of Mindanao has for decades hosted criminal gangs engaging in everything from gunrunning to extortion to kidnapping. It has also provided a haven for insurgent groups seeking to establish Islamic or communist states. Hardly a week goes by without a firefight, a bomb attack or a snatching. Just last Tuesday, the Philippine military unleashed yet another full-scale offensive near the town of Pikit against Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) militants, resulting in the deaths of at least 160 guerrillas and eight soldiers, and prompting the exodus of some 40,000...
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