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A team of military intelligence and police drug enforcement units rounded up some 50 Muslim residents of the Al-Salam Mosque Compound in Barangay Culiat, Quezon City as part of intensified operations against illegal drugs and firearms in the metropolis. Senior Superintendent Procopio Lipana, chief of the Central Police District-Criminal Investigation Unit (CPD-CIU), said 12 suspects remained under their custody while the rest were released. Lipana identified the 12 as Dawabe Ben Albi Maulana, businessman from Basilan; Musa Sabaddin Abdurahman, 27; Awop Wadja Ignus, 26; Radjail Karawan Tirih, 34; Raquel Francisco Mabajo, 26; Pamaran Alain Awali, 48; Abubakar Cuevas Zunco, 34;...

Review - Regions: New Aceh War PhaseNovember 16, 2003 10:06 PM, Laksamana.Net -  Though deploying 35,000 troops, the government and the military (TNI) have been disillusioned after promising a quick war against an original strength of 5,225, rebel Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters. The military claim there are only 2,665 left with 1,683 firearms. Jakarta had said the martial law administration implemented on May 19 would have a four-pronged strategy. A military offensive to crush the rebels would be backed by a humanitarian mission to help war casualties. Greater influence of the national police, particularly in GAM-controlled areas, and the strengthening...

<p>VaxGen's experimental AIDS vaccine couldn't block HIV infection among volunteers in Thailand, the Brisbane company said Wednesday, in another blow for the closely scrutinized drug.</p> <p>The vaccine, dubbed AIDSVAX, had no noticeable effect on infection rates among the 2,546 intravenous drug users in Bangkok who volunteered for the study. Nor did it slow the disease's progress among volunteers who took the vaccine and later contracted HIV.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kim Yong seemed to have it all. He was a trusted lieutenant colonel in a North Korean police agency and worked for a company that exported fish to Japan. He had access to dollars, foreign goods and a chauffeur-driven car. Then one day, North Korean authorities learned that Kim had been living for decades under an assumed name. He actually was the son of a man who, decades earlier, had been executed as a spy for the United States. Kim was immediately sent to a detention facility in Pyongyang, where he was forced to kneel for...

China developing `paralysis warfare'By Brian HsuSTAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Oct 08, 2003,Page 1 China's military is changing its strategy from deterrence to pre-emption, planning to use "paralysis warfare" against Taiwan in the future, the Ministry of National Defense said in a report delivered to the legislature's defense committee yesterday. "Paralysis warfare features Web-based information warfare, saturation ballistic missile attacks, joint precision strikes and seizure of the enemy's capital city by special operations units," the report says. "Such tactics will become a major option for the Chinese military in its choice of modes of attack against Taiwan in the future," it says....

<p>North Korea has admitted reprocessing 8,000 fuel rods from its Yongbyon nuclear reactor to boost its nuclear capabilities in response to threats from the United States.</p> <p>In a rare interview, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon told CNN of the move, saying North Korea's nuclear deterrence was not intended to attack other countries, but as a means to safeguard the country's territory.</p>

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JAKARTA, Sep 12, 2003 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- The Indonesian government on Friday opposed a proposal by the Philippines to revive two military multilateral organizations to boost security in Southeast Asia, including in countering terrorism. "Indonesia is always consistent with its position and its free and active foreign policies...We don't believe that efforts to counter terrorism can be solved through military pact approaches," Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told a press conference. "So, the Indonesian government will not support any efforts to revive the two organizations," he added. During an annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Chief of Army...

MANILA, Philippines, -- U.S. President George W. Bush's visit next month "will further seal our pact against terrorism and poverty," Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Friday. Arroyo, one of Bush's closest allies in Asia, said Filipinos look forward to the visit "with anticipation and gladness," and while the expected eight-hour stop may be short, "the expected gains are undiminished." "It will symbolize the conjoined strategic objective of the Philippines and the United States for global peace, security and development and continuing U.S. engagement in Southeast Asia," she said in a statement. She said the visit will solidify the Philippines'...

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines, Sep 13, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Soldiers killed two suspected members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group and seized pictures of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and documents in Arabic after storming a rebel camp in the southern Philippines Saturday, a military commander said. The soldiers also recovered weapons at the camp in the mountain village of Matalang outside Sumisip town on Basilan island, said Maj. Gen. Trifonio Salazar, commander of the army's 1st Infantry Division. He said field officers reported that the documents were "voluminous" and were going to have them translated. He had...

Official: NKorea Developing New Missile By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials in the Bush administration have evidence that North Korea has been using Russian technology to develop a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching targets in the continental United States, an administration official said Thursday. The official, asking not to be publicly identified, estimated the potential range at 9,400 miles. The distance from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to San Francisco is about 5,500 miles. In theory at least, the new missile could strike any target on U.S. soil, the official said. There had...

United States Ambassador to Australia Tom Schieffer has called on Indonesia to join other countries and ban the radical Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). His call comes on the second anniversary of the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks in the United States. Mr Schieffer says there will be a ceremony at the US Embassy in Canberra in the ACT this evening to commemorate the people who died in the September 11 attacks. The US Ambassador says there has been a lot of progress in the fight against terrorism since 2001 but he wants to see Indonesia ban JI. "I think that...

<p>BALI, Indonesia &#8212; The man who was the "intellectual mastermind" of last year's Bali nightclub bombings was sentenced yesterday to face a firing squad after being found guilty of the attacks that killed 202 persons, mostly foreign tourists.</p> <p>As the verdict was read by Judge Wayan Sugawa, Samudra, who uses only one name, shouted "God is great".</p>

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Sep 10, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Students and teachers from a Muslim school fought with members of an Islamic militant group who were distributing leaflets in their village, urging people to join an armed "jihad," or holy war, to make secular Bangladesh an Islamic state, police said Wednesday. Police used batons to stop the fighting and arrested 13 members of the Hizbul Tauhid militant group. About 45 people were wounded. Ten of them, including two police officers, were hospitalized, a police officer said on condition of anonymity. The villagers were opposed to the Muslim activists because...

International team to observe MILF truce By Rosli Abidin Yahya An international peace mission will be formed to monitor a cease-fire agreement between the Philippine government and the rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary, Blas Ople, was quoted by Radio Australia as saying that Muslim countries like Malaysia, Libya, Bahrain, Brunei and Bangladesh have agreed to send representatives with the monitoring team. He said that Malaysia is expected to head the observer mission. Moro Islamic Liberation Front Chairman Ghadzali Jaafar also said that the United Nations would most likely send a peace monitoring team...

AKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 10 — A defiant Islamic militant was sentenced to death today after being convicted of playing a major role in the Bali nightclub attacks that killed 202 people last year. The defendant, Imam Samudra, 33, was described by a panel of five judges as the "intellectual actor" behind the bombings. He is the second man to be convicted in the Bali case. After hearing the sentence, Mr. Samudra, who has shown a belligerent demeanor throughout his three-month trial, shouted, "America, Australia go to hell!" In particular, he directed his anger at an Australian who waved an Australian...

Philippine troops slay top Abu Sayyaf guerilla involved in US hostage killing ZAMBOANGA -- A Muslim Abu Sayyaf guerilla suspected of involvement in the 2001 killing of a US hostage was shot dead and two other rebels captured in separate police operations in the southern Philippines, an official said on Wednesday. Senior Abu Sayyaf leader Que Alkisam Alfa was killed in a gunbattle on Monday when troops caught up with him in a coastal town in southern Tawi-Tawi province, regional police chief Acmad Omar said. Alfa had escaped from nearby Basilan island last year amid a massive military manhunt. He...

BANGKOK, Thailand (DPA): Indonesia and Malaysia have provided Thai police with photographs and other information related to 19 suspected members of two radical Islamic groups that may be planning terrorist attacks on next month's APEC summit in Bangkok, news reports said Wednesday. Police at checkpoints along the Thai-Malaysian border have been put on alert to ensure the terrorist suspects do no enter Thailand, according to security officials quoted by the Thai-language daily Khom Chat Luek. Indonesian authorities gave Thai police a list of 11 people suspected to have been under the command of the Indonesian terrorist suspect Hambali before...

BALI, Indonesia - An Islamic militant was sentenced Wednesday to be executed by firing squad after judges found him guilty of being the "intellectual mastermind" behind last year's deadly nightclub bombings on Bali island. "Imam Samudra has been clearly proven to have planned a terrorist act, and we hand down the sentence of death," Judge Wayan Sugawa said. Samudra shouted "God is Great" after the verdict was read, while several people in courtroom cheered. MORE

CLAVERIA -- Military troops overran a New People's Army (NPA) camp in this Misamis Oriental town Thursday, wounding in the process three communist rebels and seizing five firearms, sophisticated communication devices and subversive materials. The communist insurgent camp in Sitio Dugo-dugo in Claveria was being used to spy on military communications in Mindanao, an Army commander said. An undetermined number of communist rebels escaped in the gun battle for the camp although bloodstains indicated the rebels suffered casualties in the fight, said local battalion commander Colonel Rainer Cruz. A team from the 9th Infantry Battalion's Bravo Company led by 2Lt....