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Southeast Asia
MILF leader says it is still a ‘revolutionary’ group
2015-02-11
[Gulf Today] A senior leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front said the front still considers itself a "revolutionary organization" pending full implementation of its peace agreement with the Philippine government.

In a letter addressed to a Senate committee, Mohagher Iqbal, the MILF's chief peace negotiator, said that while the front has signed a peace agreement with the government "after 18 years of intermittent war and negotiations, that peace agreement has yet to be implemented. Until that peace agreement is fully implemented, we will remain to be a revolutionary organization."

Iqbal wrote the letter to explain his absence from a hearing which is being conducted to look into the killing of 44 police commandos during a botched law enforcement mission on January 25.

In the same letter, Iqbal said the MILF's central committee had approved his appearance at a date which has yet to be scheduled as he requested that he be allowed to testify in a session closed to the public and media. But most of the senators opposed the request, saying this would not be fair to senior government officials and ranking security officers who testified in an open hearing covered live on radio and TV.

Still unconfirmed reports said weapons, including heavy guns, seized from the "fallen 44" by the MILF and BIFF members were being sold in Mindanao.
Posted by:ryuge

#11  De latest from MANILA TIMES ...

> SAME > "AQUINO HAMPERED RESCUE [SAF]OPERATION".
> "MARWAN" DEATH WILL NOT STOP TERROR RECRUITMENT.

* MANILA BULLETIN > BIFF WON'T YIELD [surrender] GUNS OF SLAIN SAF TROOPS.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed + hoping hard that PH President Aquino + POTUS Obama won't prove to be "red line" mirror-images of each other.

As per prophetic warnings from God + my Ancestors = 1960's-1970's Taotamonas, THE TIME TO CHANGE THE FUTURE OF GUAM-WESTPAC, EVEN AMERICA = AMERIKA, IS NOW WHILE IT STILL CAN BE CHANGED.

Better late than never.


Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-02-11 21:34  

#10  See also MANILA TIMES > [oVER] 250 MUSLIM FIGHTERS [MILF + BIFF] KILLED AT MAMASAPANO.

* SAME > "MARWAN PALNNED/PLOTTED TO KILL POPE" ARTIC [Pope Francis during PH visit] = Former SAF Commander Getulio Napanenas claims that MILF, Abu Sayaff, + BIFF all helped to covertly hide "Marwan" from arrest or capture by PHIL Govt-Army-Police authorities???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-02-11 20:13  

#9  LSMFT
Losing Sucks Make Taqqiya
Posted by: Shipman   2015-02-11 18:46  

#8  MILF? BIFF? These guys need new acronyms.

Cougar?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-11 18:04  

#7  Recruiting down from the younger, hipper groups?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-02-11 18:00  

#6  More like "we haven't sold out."
Posted by: Pappy   2015-02-11 16:52  

#5  In other words, "We don't want peace, just continued war".
Posted by: 49 Pan   2015-02-11 13:43  

#4  Illinois was only to collect tolls until their portion of the initial Interstate was paid off, or so they said at the time (1958).

We figure that would have been about 1965. Odd that they still collect tolls. ;)

They generate roughly $850 million in annual revenue (according to published sources) with a $700 million annual budget.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2015-02-11 12:07  

#3  MILF? BIFF?

These guys need new acronyms.
Posted by: Raj   2015-02-11 10:22  

#2   What we take in each day, month, year is none of your business. You gots any other questions, ask my brother Anthony at the next toll stop, 17 miles ahead. Now shut up and keep driving.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-02-11 08:10  

#1  Sort of like the Institutional 'Revolutionary' Party of Mexico which is sort of like the Donk party in Illinois, a corrupt mafia like organization that runs the place. Neat names but new boss same as the old boss.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-02-11 08:03  

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