home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text>
- <title>
- Philippines: Global Terrorism
- </title>
- <article>
- <hdr>
- Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
- Asian Overview: Philippines
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The Philippine Government made major strides in its
- counterterrorist efforts in 1991, arresting over 80 middle- and
- high-level members of the Communist Party of the Philippines
- (CPP) and its military arm, the New People's Army (NPA). Those
- arrested include Romulo Kintanar, chief of the NPA's General
- Command, and most of the other members of the General Command.
- The government also successfully prosecuted two NPA operatives
- for the murder of US Army Col. James Rowe in April 1989. Both
- were sentenced in February to life imprisonment.
- </p>
- <p> Primarily because of the arrests, the communists were able to
- conduct only sporadic terrorist operations. The only attack
- against US interests occurred early in the year on 31 January,
- when the NPA planted bombs at the Voice of America (VOA)
- transmitter in Tinang; the devices were successfully disarmed.
- Communists in northern Luzon, however, continue to hold an
- American, Arvey Drown, who was kidnapped there in October 1990.
- They demanded the suspension of Philippine government military
- operations in the region and the release of captured NPA
- members.
- </p>
- <p> CPP leader Jose Maria Sison continues to reside in exile in
- the Netherlands. We believe that he is involved in raising money
- for his movement, mostly from sympathetic European leftist
- groups.
- </p>
- <p> Philippine authorities aggressively worked against
- terrorists during the Persian Gulf war, particularly Iraqis who
- planned to conduct operations against Western targets in Manila.
- On 19 January, a bomb exploded close to the Thomas Jefferson
- Cultural Center in Manila, killing the man carrying the device--an Iraqi national--and seriously injuring his partner, also
- an Iraqi. Following the attempted bombing, the Consul General
- of the Iraqi Embassy was expelled. Manila also rejected the
- credentials of an arriving Iraqi diplomat and forced him to
- depart. Two Iraqi students were also expelled.
- </p>
- <p>Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-