Terrorism and Insurgency – Philippine military says over 1,000 rebels killed (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Philippine military says over 1,000 rebels killed (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
More than 1,000 Muslim separatist guerrillas have been killed in fighting in the southern Philippines over the past year, the military said Saturday, but a rebel leader denied the claim.

Press Releases: Designation of Kataib Hizballah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (U.S. Department of State)
Designation of Kata’ib Hizballah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Bureau of Public Affairs Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC July 2, 2009 On June 24, 2009 Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg designated Kata ib Hizballah (KH) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended (INA). Deputy Secretary Steinberg also …

Despite U.S. tactical shifts in Afghanistan, Taliban terror continues (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
SHARANA, Afghanistan 1st Lt. Chip Heidt, his wire spectacles sliding down his wet nose in the hot midday sun, was walking with a purpose amid a stretch of the 20-foot-high mud walls in this Afghan town opposite Pakistan’s lawless Waziristan tribal area. Heidt, 25, a scion of the Scripps newspaper family in Cincinnati, was on a foot patrol to gather local intelligence.

America’s freedom fighters: Marines battle terrorism far from home this Fourth (New York Daily News)
The lives of thousands of the bravest Americans are on the line and the security of the world’s most fertile breeding ground for terrorists hangs in the balance, as U.S. Marines press a momentous offensive against the Taliban.

Communist rebels seize guns from police station in the Philippines (EARTHtimes.org)
Manila – Communist rebels on Wednesday raided a police station in a southern Philippine town and seized several firearms, a regional police spokesman said. Senior Superintendent Nestor Fajura said at least 50 heavily armed guerrillas swooped down on …

Newsmen deny taking money from group linked to MILF (Sun Star)
KIDAPAWAN CITY — Journalists who joined last week’s three-day coverage of the plight of the evacuees in Maguindanao denied reports they were given “pocket money” by groups related to Moro rebels. read more

Filipino rebels claim killing hundreds of troops (AP via Yahoo! News)
Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines said Thursday they have killed more than 500 government troops in 10 months of fighting since the collapse of peace talks, a claim the military dismissed as propaganda.

Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib… Bagram? (CommonDreams.org)
by Ian Pannell, BBC Afghanistan Correspondent NOOR HABIB’S hands shake as he draws a picture of how he says he was abused. He claims that he was taken to a small, darkened cell where his arms were tied to the ceiling and he was made to stand in waist-deep water for six hours at a time. He says he was beaten, threatened with dogs, and deprived of sleep. He also claims there was nothing unusual …

Philippine Eduardo in anti-Hezbollah raid! (p2pnet.net)
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Military: MILF rebels using IDP communities (GMA News)
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – The Philippine military has stumbled upon another roadblock in its fight against the Moro Islamic Liberation Group (MILF): the rebel group has reportedly penetrated evacuation sites in parts of Mindanao and uses them as areas for its reserved forces.”

Magda Abu-Fadil: Ex-AP Hostage Terry Anderson Back in Beirut to Teach U.S. J-Students How to Report Accurately on … (The Huffington Post)
The aviator glasses are a bit rounder. So is the man. But the dry humor that helped ex-marine Terry Anderson overcome near seven years of…

Kenya: Find Out What Mungiki’s Grievances are (AllAfrica.com)
Nairobi As I often say, to understand is not necessarily to endorse. I fully understand the causes of the movements that have terrorised the Middle East since the end of World War II.

MILF rebels urge govt to revive peace talks (Gulf Times)
Muslim rebels want the Philippine government to halt an offensive in the southern Mindanao region and revive peace talks to end a decades-old conflict that has killed more than 120,000 people, a rebel leader said yesterday.

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