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...Moro Islamic Liberation Front: The largest Philippine Islamist guerrilla group, with more than 12,500 members, the MILF has launched attacks and bombings for four years. Analysts suspect that al-Qaeda now has links to the MILF...
...Philippines, however, there are increasing signs of a very real terrorist threat and much fresher links to Osama bin Laden's organization. TIME has uncovered evidence linking two Palestinians and one Jordanian, who are a part of an al-Qaeda cell, with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest separatist rebel faction in the country. The three were picked up last Nov. 23, their arrests barely making the newspapers. All three are being held at Camp Creme in Manila, officially for violating immigration laws. At least one member of this cell, Ahmed Abed Uthman Masrie, according...
...Afghan jihad, Khalifa is believed to have first visited the southern Philippines in 1988, setting up Islamic charities and a rattan business while recruiting Muslim youth to fight in Afghanistan. In Cotabato, his Islamic Relief Organization (IRO) opened offices in town opposite the bishop's residence. Embarrassingly for the MILF?which has angrily denied links with international terror?Khalifa's associate Selamah had been in regular touch with the Front. Reports from local sources, including some MILF commanders, point to the Palestinian Koranic scholar as having visited the MILF's main base at Camp Abubakar on several occasions before...
...Bojinka Plot, and has apparently become Khalifa's successor as al-Qaeda's point man in the insurgency-wracked south. Intelligence analysts tell TIME that while al-Qaeda assisted in the training of Abu Sayyaf in the mid-90s, bin Laden's network was closely monitoring the MILF as a larger and better organized vehicle for Islamic revolution. In the second half of the '90s the MILF, under the leadership of its chairman Hashim Salamat, was also developing its own contacts with Islamist and overtly jihadi groups across Southeast Asia and beyond. Indeed, today the MILF has emerged...
...question now being debated is whether the MILF has been importing terrorism as a matter of policy, or whether rogue elements have taken matters into their own hands. "The MILF is a loose collection of commanders and warlords, political leaders, religious people and others," says a Western diplomat. "There are certainly personal connections with Indonesia, Malaysia and the Middle East, but to see Hashim Salamat and the central committee as part of a network of terror around the world?I think the record is less clear there." The MILF is not Southeast Asia's version of the Taliban...