Jan. 25 (EIRNS)—Six Southeast Asian nations—Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand—have launched an intelligence-sharing pact aimed at combatting Islamist militants and improving cooperation on security threats at a meeting held at Jakarta today, Reuters reported. At the meeting, Indonesian Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said other nations could be invited to...
Sept. 3 (EIRNS)–An explosion has killed 14 people and injured at least 70 others at a night market in Davao City in the southern Philippines, the hometown of the President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte’s current full-scale war on drugs and terrorism is based on his successful cleaning out of that filth in Davao as mayor or vice-mayor of that city for 30 years, before his election as...
Nov. 20 (EIRNS)–Malaysian police acknowledged the validity of a leaked police memo reporting on a meeting held in Sulu, southern Philippines, last Sunday between ISIS, Abu Sayyaf (the brutal al-Qaeda branch in southern Philippines), and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF, one of the Islamic groups in the southern Philippines which backs the Philippines’ claim to the Malaysian...
{The following two articles, which appeared in the Jan. 20 and Feb. 3 editions of {EIR Online} magazine, respectively, provide the essential documentation on the British Empire’s spawning of the “color revolution” strategy, which has been implemented by “democracy” thinktanks and other irregular warfare operatives throughout the world. They have been slightly...
July 2, 2014 (LPAC)–“This explicit, shameless backing of ISIS demands Obama’s immediate impeachment,” Lyndon LaRouche said today upon being briefed on the latest developments in Iraq. “ISIS is the detonator for thermonuclear war.” Indeed, the developments of the past 24 hours or so look like a cauldron ready to boil over, and everything coming from in and...
July 15, 2013 (EIRNS)–Bill Roggio of the {Long War Journal} reported today on the arrival in Myanmar of a brigade of Mujahideen from Burma (or Myanmar), Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan under the leadership of Abu Safiya and Abu Arif, citing a statement released at Kavkaz Center, a propaganda arm of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Caucasus Emirate. The pair were identified as...
Sept. 6, 2011 (LPAC) — According to recently released Wikileak documents, former US Ambassador to the Philippines Francis Ricciardone accused the Saudi envoy in Manila of interfering in cases against Saudi subjects who were under investigation for supporing terrorists in the southern province of Mindanao. The US Embassy in Manila, in a May 4, 2005 cable classified as secret and sent by Ambassador...
May 5, 2011 (LPAC)–Indonesia, currently the chair of ASEAN, is hosting an ASEAN Summit this weekend in Jakarta, for the heads of state of the ten-nation association (Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Singapore). Major security precautions are being prepared, of which the following is relevant background. One of the leading actors in the 2002 Bali bombing...