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Posted on 07/31/2011 11:02:58 AM PDT by americanophile
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. dispatched a military team to the Philippines to help the Manila government root out militant Islamic extremist groups. The terrorist threat is seen as much diminished since then but still active. The military mission remains in the Philippines as part of the U.S.-led global anti-terrorism campaign.
Rocky Zeender spent two years on what he calls the “forgotten front” of the war on terrorism - the Philippines.
"Nobody knows about it. Right now all the funding and all the military support is going into the Middle East. And by no means is the Philippines as large of a front as the Middle East. However, it does provide an enormous safe haven for some radical members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah to come and train in," Zeender said.
As a member of the U.S. Special Forces, a “Green Beret”, Zeender slogged through the jungles and across mountains of the southern Philippines with Philippine troops from 2008 to 2010 looking for militant Islamist groups, some of whom have had links to al-Qaida.
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I guess it isn’t “quiet” anymore.
The Phillipine government and US special forces need to go in and wipe them out. Turn the Phillipine’s over to the people.
“”Nobody knows about it.
I do, Every week when my Fil sis-in-law grabs the latest weekly pinoy’ rags and I read them. Well, mostly to check out the hot celeb chicks but that’s another story. The Philippine congress (the vocal attention-seeking ones’) bitched about their presence for years and the usual part is that even the Aussie SBS is operating in close proximity with the US Spec Ops in their neck of the woods.
Those of us in California do too, when we see them working in TSA uniforms searching Americans.
Me too. My wife is from the Philippines, so I follow things over there quite closely.
MILF hunting...not always quite the same thing in the Philippines.
I laughed at that too.
I’m planning to buy a condo in Makati (the financial district of the country) or in Eastwood, the tech capital aside from Cebu. For 20K, you already have a penthouse suite of your choice either way.
Hands down the loudest New Year’s celebration on earth, and I’ve been to Times Square.
PI Ping
Everyone in the Phillipines knows about the Moro movement.
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exactly.
the USA has been “maintaining” a counterterrorism effort in the Phillipines, since Blackjack Pershing.
...it will continue doing so, until Islam is eliminated, or Islam wins.
even if we killed EVERY single terrorist there today,
it will start all over, when the next batch ripens.
if we keep treating the symptoms, instead of the root cause, we will never succeed.
The root is Islam
We may retire there, but I like Tagaytay, because of the cooler weather. I don't like the hot weather much. We just have to watch out for that Volcano in the lake.
Regards
Leonard Wood had a solution to the Moro problem.
If you want ‘cooler weather’, Baguio city is your place LOL. I hear ya’ about the hot weather, it’s so humid I was sweating buckets. Those air-conditioned buses and jeeps/pajeros come in handy.
I’m also going to retire to the Phils.
Most likely, Olangapo, which is near Subic Bay.
It is very “westernized” and one of the cleanest and safest cities in the Phils. Subic is a former US Naval base.
Either that, or Boracay. Sugar white sand, Windex blue water.
The Muslims are waaaaay south in the Sulu Islands and not a concern.
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