I. BANNER STORIES
‘Hunt rebels; talk peace’
Gov’t takes two-track position on MILF
By Michael Lim Ubac, Jocelyn Uy, Alcuin Papa
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:52:00 08/21/2008
MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is pursuing a two-pronged policy in Mindanao—hunt down relentlessly those responsible for the recent wave of violence and keep peace talks open.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080821-155874/Hunt-rebels-talk-peace
War or peace: GMA gives MILF ultimatum
By Paolo Romero
Thursday, August 21, 2008
President Arroyo apparently issued an ultimatum yesterday to the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) challenging the rebels to choose between war or peace, following the guerrilla attacks in Lanao del Norte and Sarangani that left scores dead last Monday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820113
3. Manila Times
MILF declares ‘all-out war’
Rebels vow to block arrest of Bravo, Kato
A Muslim rebel commander behind deadly attacks in southern Philippines declared on Wednesday an “all out war” against the government, saying his fighters will fight to the death.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/aug/21/yehey/top_stories/20080821top1.html
4. Malaya
Palace junks MOA, eyes re-negotiations
MILF balks, says pact a done deal
BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR
PRESS Secretary Jesus Dureza yesterday said the proposed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front would no longer be signed.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/aug21/news1.htm
Typhoon Karen kills 7
Baguio and Cordillera hit by 20 landslides
7 persons die as typhoon Karen hits N. Luzon
By DEXTER A. SEE
BAGUIO CITY – Seven persons, including three children, were killed while a woman was injured when landslides triggered by the heavy rains and strong winds of Typhoon Karen buried their houses in this mountain resort city and in the nearby town of Itogon, Benguet, and in La Union, yesterday morning.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008082067
7. Abante
UBOS KUNG UBOS!
(JB Salarzon/Al Jacinto/Rose Miranda/Romeo Braceros/Eralyn Prado)
Magsusukatan ng puwersa ang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) at grupo ng Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) sa ilalim ni Kumander Bravo makaraang kasahan kahapon ng huli ang ‘all-out war’ ng pamahalaan laban sa kanila.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/aug2108/default.htm
NPA HIT SQUAD KUMANA SA QC
Jethro Sinocruz
Tinadtad ng bala ang dalawang security guard dahilan upang agad na masawi ang isa habang sugatan ang kasamahan nito nang pagraratratin ng mga nagpakilalang taong labas sa Quezon City kahapon.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/aug2108/crime1.htm
MOA ibinasura!
Nina Rudy Andal At Malou Escudero
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wala ng balak ang Malacañang na pirmahan ang kasalukuyang draft ng Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) bagkus ay isang bagong kasunduan ang ilalatag.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008082067
10. Journal
COME AND GET US!
Rogue Commander Bravo taunts military, declares all-out war vs government
A DEFIANT Moro Islamic Liberation Front ground commander Abdurahman Macapaan, alias Commander Bravo, yesterday declared an “all-out war” against the government, saying his fighters were willing to die in battle.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-08-21&sec=1&aid=70548
11. Business World
Attrition law to finally take effect this year
A LAW AIMED AT SACKING inefficient tax and customs officials while rewarding those who exceed revenue goals will finally be implemented this year, with the Finance department ordering the two main revenue agencies to submit a list of people to be dismissed for failing to meet targets in 2007.
http://bworldonline.com/BW082108/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
SC upholds cigarette tax law
By Joel R. San Juan
Reporter
THE Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of Section 145 of the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC), which imposes higher excise taxes on brands of cigarettes that entered the market after 1996.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/08212008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
Senators want MILF tagged as ‘terror group’
By Christina Mendez
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Senators urged the government to classify the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as a terrorist organization following the deadly attacks in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820114
Widow’s appeal: Finish them off
By Ramil Bajo
Thursday, August 21, 2008
KORONADAL CITY – The wife of Army Lt. Col. Angelo Benitez who was among those killed by marauding Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas last Monday, called on President Arroyo to use the full force of the military to wipe out the rebels.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820115
Erap fires Lim as PMP head
By Jose Rodel Clapano
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim has been removed as president of former President Joseph Estrada’s party, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820117
Yellow orchid named ‘Ninoy’
By Katherine Adraneda
Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is naming a new breed of flowering plant after the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, an icon of democracy, as the nation remembers his 25th death anniversary today.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820116
6 hurt in Zambo blast
By Roel Pareño
Thursday, August 21, 2008
ZAMBOANGA CITY — At least six people were wounded when a grenade exploded last night on a busy street in the downtown business district of this city.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820118
Typhoon ‘Karen’ leaves 5 dead
By Helen Flores and Jaime Laude
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Typhoon “Karen” (international codename Nuri) pounded northern Luzon yesterday bringing strong winds and continuous rains that left five people, including three children, dead.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820119
Investors, tourism not affected by Mindanao violence
By Elisa Osorio and Mayen Jaymalin
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Foreign investors are not affected by the brewing tension between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
“There is no immediate effect,” Robert Sears, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (Amcham) said in an interview.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820121
Make sure motion is based on facts, GSIS chief legal counsel told
Thursday, August 21, 2008
The chief counsel of the Government Service Insurance System was rebuked yesterday after she admitted to a Supreme Court investigating panel that she had Court of Appeals Justice Vicente Roxas inhibit himself from hearing the Manila Electric Co. vs. GSIS case based on information from an anonymous caller that the justice had talked to a Meralco lawyer.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820122
Mindanao bishops pray for peace
By Evelyn Macairan
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Mindanao bishops are praying for peace even as four of their priests and a seminarian were reported as among those abducted by Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels but later escaped last Monday in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820123
Palace to review, renegotiate MOA with MILF
By Paolo Romero
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Malacañang will review the controversial Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), officials said yesterday admitting the accord had flaws.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820124
CHR urges ceasefire
By Katherine Adraneda
Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) appealed yesterday to both the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for a “temporary ceasefire” in Mindanao to allow the evacuation of thousands of civilians who fled their homes at the height of last Monday’s pillaging by Muslim rebels.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080820125
SPECIAL REPORT
Less than 10 people in plot; 5 core, 5 others ‘in the know’
By Fe Zamora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:17:00 08/21/2008
(First in a series)
(Editor’s Note: The first part is based on interviews with Vir Pablico, former CIS [Criminal Investigation Service] investigator, now chief of the legal division of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group; retired Judge Jesus Guererro, special prosecutor at the retrial of the Aquino-Galman case; and ex-Col. Irwin Ver, former commander of the Presidential Guards, the uniformed component of the Presidential Security Command during the Marcos dictatorship.
Palace on MOA: No renegotiation, only review
By Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:19:00 08/21/2008
MANILA, Philippines—What’s the difference between renegotiation and review?
Malacañang Wednesday said it would not renegotiate the deal on an expanded Bangsamoro homeland but only “review it and undertake negotiations that will lead to the crafting of a peace agreement within the context of the Constitution.”
‘Commissioner’ and ‘dirty’ swap insults at CA probe
By Leila Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:21:00 08/21/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The two key figures in the bribery scandal rocking the Court of Appeals (CA) faced off at a hearing Wednesday, trading barbed remarks and essentially accusing each other of lying.
Here, People Power began
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:46:00 08/21/2008
TWENTY-FIVE years ago today, Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. came home seeking “no confrontation” with those who had imprisoned him under the Marcos dictatorship for seven years and seven months and caused his three-year self-exile in the United States.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080821-155914/Here-People-Power-began
Here, People Power began
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:46:00 08/21/2008
TWENTY-FIVE years ago today, Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. came home seeking “no confrontation” with those who had imprisoned him under the Marcos dictatorship for seven years and seven months and caused his three-year self-exile in the United States.
AFP launches air strikes vs rebs; civilians arming
By Jeoffrey Maitem, Inquirer Mindanao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:49:00 08/21/2008
SHARIFF AGUAK, MAGUINDANAO—The military Wednesday launched air strikes against suspected rebel positions after guerrillas fired rocket grenades at an Army outpost in the latest flare-up of violence in Mindanao that sent thousands of civilians fleeing.
Kenney prefers peace talks to Erap’s call for all-out war
By Marlon Ramos, Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:50:00 08/21/2008
MANILA, Philippines—US Ambassador Kristie Kenney Wednesday said she respected former President Joseph Estrada’s opinion but that she preferred peace negotiations with Moro rebels “than seeing violence and destruction.”
Word war: MILF leader calls Estrada ‘utak pulbura’
By Inquirer Mindanao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:43:00 08/21/2008
COTABATO CITY—“Utak pulbura” (war freak).
This was how the chief peace negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) described former President Joseph Estrada for suggesting that the government should declare an “all-out war” against the rebel group like what he did in 2000.
False text messages in Iligan send hundreds in panic
By Rex Ortega, Inquirer Mindanao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:45:00 08/21/2008
ILIGAN CITY—At least 400 people ran out of their homes on Tuesday night, dragging their children with them, following reports that Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels had already entered the city or were at its doorsteps.
It’s safe to return home now, military tells evacuees
By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:46:00 08/21/2008
TUBOD, LANAO DEL NORTE —Thousands of families forced to flee atrocities can now safely return to their homes with the withdrawal of Moro rebels, military officials said Wednesday.
Thousands of evacuees return; but others pack up and leave
By Inquirer Mindanao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:49:00 08/21/2008
KOLAMBUGAN, LANAO DEL NORTE—More than 1,000 people packed their belongings and left for Misamis Occidental on Tuesday to stay with relatives or join other evacuees in Ozamiz City and nearby Clarin town.
Zubiri on Arroyo’s noted temper: It’s just motherly love
By Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:50:00 08/21/2008
MANILA, Philippines—It is just “motherly love.”
Take it from Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, who himself had personally experienced the temper of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo several times.
“I have known her for eight years and for me that is just normal of her,” Zubiri said in a phone interview when asked to comment on Ms Arroyo’s recent display of her temper.
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