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I remember a full front photo of her, I think in the "Sun". Can't remember where I was at the time, but the affair did make a stink worldwide.
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In Harry Harrison's satirical 1965 SF novel Bill the Galactic Hero, the eponymous "hero" serves aboard a warship named the Christine Keeler.
The novel also features much drunkenness, pilfering, and official incompetence, but very little actual heroism.
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From what I understand, John Profumo was an honorable man who made a mistake. According to Wikipedia "After his resignation, Profumo began to work as a volunteer cleaning toilets at Toynbee Hall, a charity based in the East End of London, and continued to work there for the rest of his life."
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All men make mistakes, even Tiger Woods. Profumo was an honourable gentleman because he publicly confessed his and did penance.
The Somali militant group Al-Shabab has been arming and training pirates in exchange for a share of their spoils, says a newly released Canadian intelligence document. Al-Shabab has formed a "relationship of convenience" with one of the two main pirate networks operating off the Horn of Africa, the "Top Secret" intelligence assessment says.
The report describes an "Islamist extremism-piracy nexus" that involves Al-Shabab providing "weapons, combat training and local protection" to the Mudug pirates of southern Somalia. In return, "elements of Al-Shabab continue to receive portions of the spoils from successful hijackings either in cash or seized weapons and materiel," it says.
Pirate attacks in the region have soared over the past two years but in addition to threatening international shipping, they are also apparently financing the Somali extremist group at the centre of several major North American counter-terrorism investigations. The FBI is probing at least 20 Somali-Americans who have left Minneapolis to join Al-Shabab, and the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service are investigating whether up to six Somali-Canadians who left Toronto in recent weeks were also recruited by Al-Shabab.
The report was written by Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, which is made up of representatives of Canada's national security agencies. A copy of was obtained under the Access to Information Act. It says 13% of the cargo that passes through Canadian ports transits the pirate-infested waters around the Horn of Africa. Last year, a shipment of Canadian iron ore was commandeered by Somalia pirates and released after the owner of the vessel, the Yasa Neslihan, paid a ransom, the report says.
Somali pirate attacks more than doubled last year to 115, 46 of which were successful. Given the millions worth of ransom payments involved, the "operation ties" between the pirates and Al-Shabab could earn significant sums for the militants.
The Somali-Canadians under investigation are in their early- to mid-twenties. Most left Toronto together in early November without informing their families or friends. Investigators believe they are already in Somalia. The Abu Huraira mosque, where some of them worshipped, has urged anyone with information to come forward.
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WWMD (What Would Mohammed Do)? Pretty much the same thing. Shabab better be taking 20% Profit's cut and the finest wimmen Filipino boys of they want to stay in good graces with allah.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Saudi fighter jest have launched another round of aerial bombardment of Houthi positions in northwestern Yemeni province of Sa'ada.
The Houthi fighters said on Wednesday that the intensified-airstrikes same a day after Saudi troops suffered defeat during a Tuesday ground incursion.
Houthi fighters, meanwhile, released new footage of seized Saudi firearms and ammunition.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has inspected southern Jizan province where the fighting between the Saudi army and the Houthis has taken place.
Riyadh claims it is acting to prevent the Houthis from crossing into the Saudi territory. The Houthis deny the claims, saying the are already engaged in an armed conflict with Sana'a and are not interested in opening another front.
The Shia fighters accuse Saudi Arabia of assisting the Yemeni army in its war against them.
The conflict intensified in August when Yemen's army launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the fighters in the northern province of Sa'ada.
The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as of large-scale corruption.
The Saudi air force has further complicated the armed conflict by launching its own operations against the Shia resistance fighters.
According to the fighters, Saudis use toxic materials including white phosphorus bombs against civilians in north Yemen.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that since 2004 up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'ada to take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.
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According to the fighters, Saudis use toxic materials including white phosphorus bombs against civilians in north Yemen.
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I think this calls for another "Goldstone Report"
Huh ? What do you mean Goldstone can't bite the saudi hand that feeds him ???
But.... But... the Saudi's are using phosphorous against these poor poor innocent Houtis - in the Name of Allan, please Goldstone sit downand write another biggoted report....
No ?....
Well, you can always say it is a ZIONIST PLOT (TM)..., you can say its the JOOOOOOS.....please...
Still No ??....
Well.... I tried (Sigh)
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[Bangla Daily Star] Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman and one of the founders of Indian separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), was arrested in Dhaka on Monday, reports BBC Bangla Service.
Quoting Indian intelligence agencies, the BBC Kolkata correspondent reports that the Ulfa chief along with three to four other leaders was arrested in Gulshan in the capital.
Contacted, the high-ups of Bangladesh Police, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Detective Branch (DB) and Special Branch (SB) denied such arrest.
A report of Indian state-run news agency PTI says: Home Secretary G K Pillai and his Bangladesh counterpart Abdus Sobhan Sikder, who is currently in India, pleaded ignorance about the detention of Rajkhowa.
"Because I am away from the country, I do not have such information till now," Sikder told reporters when asked about the development.
Pillai said, "We also have no official information of arrest of Arabinda Rajkhowa in Bangladesh or anywhere else".
Meanwhile, Indian English dailies the Hindustan Times and the Economic Times report that Ulfa chairman Rajkhowa, its publicity secretary Apurba Baruah and another separatist group National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) chairman Biswamohan Debbarma were also arrested in Bangladesh.
Quoting home ministry sources, the Indian media reports say efforts are on to get 53-year-old Ulfa Chairman Rajkhowa deported to India, writes our correspondent in Delhi.
According to reports published in the Hindustan Times and the Economic Times, the Ulfa and NLFT leaders were believed to have been arrested by the Special Branch of the Bangladesh police and are likely to be handed over to the Indian authorities along the Indo-Bangla border either in Tripura or in Assam soon.
The Ulfa chairman has reportedly been in favour of talks with the central government of India.
Talking to The Daily Star, Additional Inspector General of Police NBK Tripura, Rab Director General Hassan Mahmood Khandker, DMP Commissioner AKM Shahidul Hoque, Special Superintendent Meer Shahidul Islam of CID and SS Mahbubur Rahman of SB said they have no information regarding the arrest of any Ulfa or NLFT leaders.
Senior Ulfa leader Anup Chetia has been confined in Bangladesh jail since 1998.
According to PTI, with Rajkhowa's detention, Ulfa is now left with only two top leaders, commander-in-chief Paresh Barua and his deputy Raju Barua, who are yet to be arrested. It is believed that Paresh Barua now shuttles among China, Thailand and Malaysia.
Rajkhowa is among five people who founded the separatist group on April 7, 1979.
Accused in several cases, including that of waging war against India, Rajkhowa has an Interpol Red Corner notice against him. He has been out of India since 1992 and is said to have lived in places like Myanmar, Thailand, Bhutan apart from Bangladesh, added PTI.
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(Bloomberg) -- Leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are clashing over money and the direction the country's biggest guerrilla group should take, former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said, citing intelligence reports.
The rebels' leader, Alfonso Cano, and second-in-command Jorge Briceno, known by his alias "Mono Jojoy," are feuding over finances as Colombia's armed forces close in on them, according to Santos.
"Based on intelligence I've seen from the past months, there are some disagreements between these two," Santos told Bogota-based Caracol radio. "Their financial structure has been hit hard. Everyone's asking for money, people are complaining."
Since taking office in 2002, President Alvaro Uribe has led a campaign that has cut the rebels' numbers by half, according to the government. The FARC, as the rebel group is known, fund their activities mainly through cocaine trafficking.
"The FARC's command is very, very weakened, with communication and coordination problems," Santos said. "If these two disappear, one would think the structure of the FARC would be left very shaky."
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"If these two disappear, one would think the structure of the FARC would be left very shaky."
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The 3rd stewardess informed them that they were not to have electronic devices on at this time. To which one of the men said "shut up infidel dog!" She went to take the camcorder and he began to scream in her face in Arabic. At that exact moment, all 11 of them got up and started to walk the cabin. This is where I had had enough! I got up and started to the back where I heard a voice behind me from another Texan twice my size say "I got your back." According to this article it was a harmless misunderstanding.
Still, this is the same MSM that has been telling us not to pay attention to the man shouting "Allan's Snackbar" covering up Hasan's motivation. Something happened, and we might have to read between the lines of official accounts to get at the truth.
After 9/11 we started saying, "A pack, not a herd." This is another demonstration of that vow. By the way, Snopes says the incident took place on November 17th of this year. Go read the whole thing.
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Its clear and simple. Arabs are spitting in American's face and the TSA says it raining.
It is going to get worse.
As long as Obamba keeps threatening the Iranians with empty threats ( look, maybe if you dont negotiate with us we will consider putting some sanctions on you, Wink Wink).
God - How I miss Georde W Bush ! You need more Texans in Guv'mint.
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GWB would be preferable to the traitor currently in the WH but let's not forget that he was heavily into the "ISLAM is Peace" don't hurt the fluffy bunnies mode himself.
The Army charged the Fort Hood shooting suspect with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
These charges are added to the 13 premeditated murder charges filed against Maj. Nidal Hasan in the wake of the Nov. 5 shooting massacre at Fort Hood.
The Army said the attempted murder charges filed Wednesday were related to the 30 soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the shooting at a soldier processing center on the central Texas post.
Hasan's attorney, John Galligan, said Wednesday the additional charges may not affect Hasan's punishment, if he is convicted, because premeditated murder carries the death penalty. Authorities haven't said whether they plan to seek the death penalty.
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Just out of curiosity, what is the miltary form of execution for this crime? Still a firing squad or will they stretch a point and hang him?
I don't think the military has executed anyone since Pvt Slovik in WWII.
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Hasan's attorney, John Galligan, said Wednesday the additional charges may not affect Hasan's punishment, if he is convicted, because premeditated murder carries the death penalty.
Unless the court-martial convicts him on a single charge of attempted premeditated murder, busts him, boots him on a dishonorable, and turns him over to the Texas court system...
Lawyers for a terrorism suspect once held at Guantanamo Bay who is now facing prosecution in Manhattan asked a judge on Tuesday to dismiss his case on the ground that his nearly five years in detention denied him his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
The terrorism suspect, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, was captured in Pakistan in 2004, held for two years in secret prisons run by the C.I.A., and then moved in 2006 to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. During his detention, he says, he was subjected to cruel interrogation techniques and denied a lawyer.
Although Mr. Ghailani faces charges stemming from a terrorist act that predated the Sept. 11 attacks, his speedy trial motion could foreshadow issues that could arise in the prosecution of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the professed organizer of the 9/11 plot, and four other Guantanamo detainees who were recently ordered sent to New York for trial.
"We respectfully submit that this case presents possibly the most unique and egregious example of a speedy trial violation in American jurisprudence to date," Mr. Ghailani's lawyers said in a motion that was heavily censored because of its reliance on classified information.
The motion was originally filed several weeks ago with Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, but it was kept almost entirely under seal pending a review by the government. The new version, with many pages blacked out, was made public on Tuesday.
"This motion asks one primary question," the lawyers, Peter E. Quijano, Michael K. Bachrach and Gregory Cooper, wrote. "Can national security trump an indicted defendant's constitutional Right to a Speedy Trial? We respectfully submit that the answer is emphatically and without qualification, 'No.' "
Mr. Ghailani, a Tanzanian who is believed to be in his mid-30s, has pleaded not guilty. He has been charged with conspiring to help carry out Al Qaeda's 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, attacks that killed 224 people. The military has also said that he later served as a cook and a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
A spokeswoman for the United States attorney's office in Manhattan had no comment on the filing.
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[Dawn] Security forces arrested nine militants, destroyed six houses and three explosive-laden vehicles during an operation in Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency, on Wednesday.
According to security sources, the operation against militants in Bara Tehsil has been going on for the last nine days.
A curfew has also been imposed in the area.
Sources also said that at least 65 militants have been killed and 96 arrested during the last nine days of this operation.
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[Dawn] Two militants including a key militant commander, Mula Launcher were killed in Kurram Agency on Wednesday, according to official sources.
Two militants were also injured and three were arrested in Spairkot, Khelwat and Dombaki areas of central Kurram Agency during a military operation.
Security forces also arrested 12 local and foreign militants and recovered a huge cache of ammunition and explosive material from the Badama area of central Kurram on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, militants blew up a bridge on main Thall-Parachinar road in Arawali area of lower Kurram. Reports state that security forces will face problems commuting in the area due to the destruction of this bridge.
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[Dawn] According to the Islamabad Police, the traffic mishap the chief justice and his family narrowly escaped was actually an attempt on the lives of the members of his convoy.
A police report registered in the federal capital accuses two Islamabad Traffic Police officials of attempted murder.
Assistant Sub Inspectors Fazal Karim and Liaquat Ali, who had parked their police car in the middle of the highway where the chief justice and his security convoy was traveling, have been arrested.
As Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his family narrowly escaped injuries, sixteen security personnel of his convoy were injured in the accident, some of them seriously.
Police sources say that the two arrested officials will be produced before a district judge on Thursday.
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[Dawn] Ten militants were killed and 128 wanted criminals were arrested from various parts of Hangu district in a joint operation conducted by police and frontier constabulary, DPO Abd ur Rasheed told DawnNews.
The operation was carried out along the border areas of Hangu with Orakzai Agency including Thall, Doaba, Shahu Khel, Kahi, Naryab and Kotki. The arrested men include criminals wanted in kidnapping for ransom, murders and carrying out bomb blasts. The militants were killed in an encounter with the forces.
The DPO of Hangu, Abd ur Rasheed told media on Wednesday that law enforcement agencies seized three remote controlled bombs, one rocket launcher, two hand grenades, 19 Kalashnikovs, 18 rifles, 17 shot guns, 24 pistols, ten kilograms of hashish and thousands of cartridges.
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[Dawn] A suicide bomber struck near the naval headquarters Islamabad on Wednesday, police said, killing a navy official.
The attacker walked up to a checkpoint at the entrance to the complex and detonated his explosives when challenged by security forces, scattering bits of flesh across a busy road in central Islamabad, police and witnesses said. 'The bomber was about 17 to 18 years old. He was wearing a suicide jacket. He came to the gate and tried to enter the complex,' Fazeel Asghar, Islamabad's top administration official, told reporters.
'Security officials checked him and one navy police constable, Mohammad Ashraf, asked him to take off his coat. The bomber then blew himself up and the navy constable died in the blast,' he said.
Two other navy personnel were critically wounded, he added.
Witnesses described the scene in the aftermath of the blast.
'I was in a nearby street when I heard a loud explosion,' said witness Imtiaz Ali.
'When I reached the main Margalla Road there was smoke near the navy complex. I saw three soldiers lying wounded.'
Navy officials were seen rushing towards the gate. Two ambulances reached the blast site and shifted the injured to the navy hospital inside the complex.
The windows of several cars were shattered in the powerful blast, and police sealed the road and diverted traffic.
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The only insurgents interested in the Pak Navy would be in Baluchistan, opposed to the port at Gwadar. This might indicate an upcoming shift of the insurgent center of gravity from the NWFP to Baluchistan.
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A part of the 911 planning also took place in Manila. There were AQ funded training camps on Mindanao as well as funds, training and support from AQ went to the ASG on both Jolo and Basilan.
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49 Pan is a wonderful resource for that part of the world, 746, as he spent time there dealing with exactly that bunch. Lots of that kind of thing here at Rantburg. :-)
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Sorta missed the Narco War in Mexico. Which also points out the big blind spot in MSM when it comes to countries in this hemisphere and south of the border. You have to watch Univision to find out anything going on down there. Which also contributed to the absolute ignorance on what happened in Honduras - it wasn't a military coup, but simply their Constitutional process to address the real coup being staged by Zelaya.
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see link for work done in Zambo with orphanage
Gorgeous, 746. There are some seriously photogenic children there, and someone definitely knows how to wield a camera. I knew about the orphanage, but had not seen those. Thank you for so generously sharing.
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TW, I think I know who this 746 is, shoots cig adds. He does take some great photos. My favorites are the first one and the last one. The first is a Malaysian girl, the bigger round faced girl, she had been gang raped by the Malaysian military at seven. We hide here in Zambo. The last photo was a retarded child. The starkness of the photo really captured the orphanage and how it looked when we first got there, hopeless. The place was a sanctuary for some kids that love through some real horror. I have seen the hardest of men break into tears at that place.
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lived not love, sorry
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They were good men then, 49 Pan. I'm sure those kids make all of you proud in ways small and large.
[Straits Times] FORMER Muslim separatist leader Nur Misuari was acquitted by a lower court on Wednesday of leading a brief 2001 rebellion that claimed about 100 lives in the southern Philippines, officials said.
The court ruled there was insufficient evidence that Misuari and seven other defendants were behind the attacks on military targets on the island of Jolo. The other defendants were also acquitted, court officials said.
'The prosecution has failed to discharge its burden of showing proof beyond reasonable doubt that the crime of rebellion was committed by the accused and that they are guilty thereof,' the Manila regional trial court judge, Winlove Dumayas, wrote in his ruling.
Misuari, founder of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) that launched a decades-long separatist rebellion in 1971, could not be reached for comment. After his arrest in Malaysia, where he fled following the Jolo revolt, he was detained at a police camp south of Manila before being granted house arrest.
He had been free on bail since last year and on Tuesday he registered as a candidate for governor in Sulu province, which includes Jolo, in the May 2010 elections.
The MNLF signed a peace treaty with the government in 1996 in exchange for limited Muslim self-rule in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic nation. Misuari was later elected governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which includes Sulu, but he lost that post when the government backed a rival candidate in subsequent elections.
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Misuari was in Zamboanga at the time of the attacks on Jolo. There was conciderable fighting there at his palace as well. I wonder if he was acquitted on just the Jolo event, the ones on Zamboanga, and the ones that the MILF did in support of Nur at the same time.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Five British yachtsmen detained in the Gulf last week by Revolutionary Guards were freed Wednesday after it was determined they had inadvertently strayed into Iran's territorial waters, Iranian media said.
"The five Britons who had illegally entered with their vessel into the territorial waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran and who were arrested near the Siri Island have been freed hours ago, state radio quoted a statement by the Guards as saying.
The elite force whose navy patrols the Gulf waters said the five sailors were interrogated and "after investigation it became evident that their illegal entry was a mistake."
"So they were freed after taking the needed written commitments."
The five had been held since Nov. 25 and on Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie warned they would be dealt with "firmly" if found guilty of illegal entry into Iranian waters.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki late on Tuesday and called for formal consular access to the men and their speedy release. They were detained on Nov. 25.
Relations between Britain and Iran have been dogged by tension in recent years over a range of issues, from Tehran's nuclear program to Iranian allegations of British involvement in post-election violence in June this year.
Britain stressed the five men were civilians and played down parallels with an incident in March 2007 when Iran seized eight British Royal Navy sailors and seven marines off its coast.
Miliband had also demanded consular access to them, saying they appeared to have "inadvertently" strayed into Iranian waters.
He also said the incident has "nothing to do" with politics or the standoff over the Islamic republic's nuclear program, which the West suspects has military aims despite Tehran's denial.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Somali militant group Al-Shabab has been arming and training pirates in exchange for a share of their spoils, says a newly released Canadian intelligence document. Al-Shabab has formed a "relationship of convenience" with one of the two main pirate networks operating off the Horn of Africa, the "Top Secret" intelligence assessment says.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Saudi fighter jest have launched another round of aerial bombardment of Houthi positions in northwestern Yemeni province of Sa'ada. 
The Army charged the Fort Hood shooting suspect with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
Lawyers for a terrorism suspect once held at Guantanamo Bay who is now facing prosecution in Manhattan asked a judge on Tuesday to dismiss his case on the ground that his nearly five years in detention denied him his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
[Dawn] A suicide bomber struck near the naval headquarters Islamabad on Wednesday, police said, killing a navy official.
[Straits Times] FORMER Muslim separatist leader Nur Misuari was acquitted by a lower court on Wednesday of leading a brief 2001 rebellion that claimed about 100 lives in the southern Philippines, officials said.
