Word: moros
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...urges that drive us, it's the passion to be held that makes itself known first. If a baby is startled fresh from the womb, German pediatrician Ernst Moro discovered in 1918, its arms will fly up and out, then come together in a desperate clutch. Holding is good, and floating free is bad--a lesson that's not so much learned after birth as preloaded at the factory. In fact, doctors have long known that babies who aren't held simply fail to thrive. Not surprisingly, it's a need we never outgrow. In one way or another...
...EGYPT Police arrested two members of Italy 's ultra-leftist Red Brigades group convicted in absentia of terrorist activities by Italian courts. One of the two, Rita Algranati, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 1978 kidnapping and murder of two-time Prime Minister Aldo Moro. In the Crosshairs MIDDLE EAST Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and threatened to resume assassinations of Palestinian militants after a Hamas suicide bombing - the group's first carried out by a woman - killed four Israelis at a border crossing. Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Zeev Boim named Hamas' spiritual leader...
...Ermita himself has noted, Manila is in a delicate position when it comes to JI. The government is still attempting to negotiate a cease-fire with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), whose 12,000 guerrillas are fighting to gain autonomy for sections of Mindanao. In earlier peace talks, the MILF foreswore any contact with JI, and its leaders say they will help Manila hunt down the group's members if they seek sanctuary within MILF territory...
...Philippines has jumped from $38 million in 2001 to $114 million this year?making it the fourth largest recipient of U.S. military aid. Last week President Bush promised development money for the southern island of Mindanao if a peace pact can be secured between Manila and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...Despite these small victories, it is still just the beginning of a difficult battle to root out terrorism in the Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a homegrown Muslim separatist organization in Mindanao with some 12,500 members. While attempting to harass Abu Sayyaf into extinction, Arroyo has also been trying to end years of bloodshed by negotiating a peace treaty with the MILF...