MNLF seeks release of Abu Sayyaf hostages
The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) said it sent emissaries on Monday to negotiate the release of foreign and Filipino hostages being held by al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf gunmen on southern Jolo island.
The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) said it sent emissaries on Monday to negotiate the release of foreign and Filipino hostages being held by al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf gunmen on southern Jolo island.
Malacañang on Monday dismissed Moro leader Nur Misuari’s threat to enlist the support of Middle East leaders in his rejection of the framework agreement signed by the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), saying the peace plan had the full backing of Arab Islamic leaders.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile described the Tripoli Agreement that resulted from a “secret” meeting between First Lady Imelda Marcos and Libyan President Moammer Gadhafi in November 1976 as an “unmitigated and unpardonable sellout” of Philippine sovereignty to the rebel Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday praised the agreement on a peace accord ending a decades-long Muslim separatist insurgency that killed 150,000 people, offering UN aid “as needed.”
An official of the Moro National Liberation Front in Sulu decried Thursday a claim by the local police that a senior MNLF leader as among the people allegedly holding Jordanian TV journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani and his Filipino crew.
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—At least four Malaysians were among the gunmen, including former members of the Moro National Liberation Front, that figured in a clash with government forces in Talipao, Sulu, last Sunday, a junior Marine officer who survived the battle said. In fact, one of the Malaysians was killed in the two-hour firefight, in which [...]
