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2009-11-12 Southeast Asia

"General Pershing made me do it "says local militants

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Posted by Classer 2009-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I read this until coming across the phrase, "US president George Bush's so-called 'war on terror'."

It's just the same, old, anti-American drivel -- from Africa this time.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-11-12 01:12|| 2009-11-12 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Um... I agree, except this is from the Philippines :).

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-12 01:33|| 2009-11-12 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 "The Abu Sayyaf are still well-entrenched in the jungle. They are capable of mounting terrorist attacks," said Rommel Banlaoi, executive director of the Philippine Institute for Political Violence and Terrorism Research think-tank.

Who's their aviation expert? Goering Cabanayan?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-11-12 01:36|| 2009-11-12 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Crazyfool, click the link. The article is about the Philippines -- but the news source is Africa (South).

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-11-12 02:05|| 2009-11-12 02:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Wiping out 60-70% of the enemy, including its leadership, is failure? If the Flip army keeps failing like that, Abu Sayyaf will be extinct as the Dodo bird.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-12 03:44|| 2009-11-12 03:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah your right scooter. I stand corrected.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-12 08:26|| 2009-11-12 08:26|| Front Page Top

#7 "If the gauge of success is the elimination or neutralisation of the Abu Sayyaf, then it would appear that the cooperation has been a failure," Wadi said.

Philippine authorities say the Abu Sayyaf's numbers have fallen from about 1 000 eight years ago to 300-400 now, thanks to the military campaign.

Cough, cough.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-11-12 11:04|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-11-12 11:04|| Front Page Top

#8 More than 80 percent of its members are below 25 years of age, many of whom are high-school drop outs lured by promises of monetary rewards from criminal activities by the group...The government's chief negotiator for the Muslim insurgency, Nabil Tan, said the Abu Sayyaf also took advantage of the bitter memories Jolo Muslims still felt from an American campaign of pacification in the early 1900s.

Prenatal memories of General Pershing?

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-11-12 11:06|| 2009-11-12 11:06|| Front Page Top

#9 If the actions of Gen. Pershing are still being remembered with dread, maybe we should repeat them.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-11-12 18:13|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-11-12 18:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Pershing knew the key to COIN. First, militarily defeat the enemy.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2009-11-12 22:06|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2009-11-12 22:06|| Front Page Top

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