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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031230/lf_nm/religion_philippines_islam_dc_1

Philippine Brand of Islam Faces Foreign Influence
Tue Dec 30, 8:12 AM ET
By Manny Mogato

COTABATO City, Philippines (Reuters) - After 15 years, Amir Baraguir has taken up smoking again.

He doesn't particularly enjoy it, but he likes the message of defiance it sends to Muslim clerics on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao who are trying to instill a much stricter version of Islam than he and many others are used to.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031230/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_anti_terror_1

U.S. Trains Indonesian Anti-Terror Squad (Associated Press)
Gunfire crackles and smoke wafts across a valley as an elite police unit storms a house filled with terrorists, rescuing the hostages and shooting dead the abductors.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031230/ap_on_re_as/philippines_americans_arrested_4

U.S. Brothers Arrested in Philippines (Associated Press)
Authorities were set to deport two American brothers who were arrested for suspected links to terrorism, immigration officials said Tuesday.