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| Philippines: MILF welcomes independent inquiry into bloody clash |
| 2007-07-20 |
| (AKI) - The Philippines' largest Islamic rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, has welcomed news that Malaysia will head an international monitoring team (IMT) to investigate the clash between the army and rebels in Basilan, in the southern province of Mindanao last week. Peace talks between the MILF and the government are now at risk following the bloody conflict, in which five members of the rebel group and at least 14 soldiers - ten of whom were decapitated. "This move is very significant if we are to know the truth of the decapitation of the soldiers and the imam Alkanul," said Mohagher Iqbal, the the head of the MILF negotiating team said on the group's website. Alkanul is the religious leader killed and mutilated hours before the conflict between the MILF and the army that took place in Basilan in on July 10. The MILF has denied having decapitated the soldiers even though it has never denied the deaths took place during the bloody conflict. The conflict occurred while the military was conducting a search and rescue operation for Giancarlo Bossi, an Italian priest abducted in Tipo-tipo town in the island-province of Basilan in June. The IMT will also try and veryify whether the MILF has breached the truce that was the basis of peace talks that were underway since 2001. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I can never read one of these stories without laughing. Do these Brave Jihadi Warriors know what that acronym means to any infidel whose mind is remotely close to the gutter? |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2007-07-20 11:07 |