Jihadi threat looms over Philippine peace hopes
Peace remains an elusive target on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, where violence is an everyday occurrence and the line between revolutionary movement and jihadi terrorism hard to discern. A central government delegation and a team from the moderate Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are soon to meet in Malaysia to talk peace in the seventh exploratory meeting since formal peace talks were halted after former president Joseph Estrada’s all-out war in 2000. Full Story