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U.S. KEEPS CPP-NPA ON INTERNATIONAL TERROR LIST MANILA, February 4, 2005 (STAR) By Marvin Sy - The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and New People's Army (NPA) will remain on the US government's list of foreign terrorist organizations, US Ambassador Francis Ricciardone said. "This is not an issue of labels for us," he said. "This is an issue of identity. When an organization kills and boasts about killing and threatens to kill, and burns capital investments and livelihood for people... when it murders mayors and soldiers of your country who are delivering disaster relief, that is terrorism." The CPP and NPA are still engaged in terrorist activities and are known around the world as terrorists, he added. Ricciardone said the CPP and NPA have been placed on its list of foreign terrorist groups because of their own actions, and their removal from the list will depend on their actions. "It is not an arbitration by my government or the EU (European Union)," he said. "The entire world recognizes them for what they are and what they do." In fact, he added, the CPP and NPA's classification as terrorist groups were created by the rebel movement's own activities. Ricciardone said the US government supports Philippine efforts to talk peace with the CPP-NPA, but their removal from the list of foreign terrorist groups at this time is out of the question. "What the US says or doesn't say or what the EU says or doesn't say is not going to change the fact that an organization that keeps on destroying livelihoods and kills people are murderers," he said. The Philippine government is working on restarting peace talks with communist rebels, which the National Democratic Front (NDF) unilaterally suspended in August last year. The NDF is the CPP's political arm that is engaged in peace talks with the government. A high-level delegation comprised of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, presidential adviser on the peace process Teresita Quintos Deles and presidential chief of staff Norberto Gonzales just concluded a six-day visit to the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Norway as part of government efforts to resume the peace process. The NDF has demanded that the Philippine government make representations before the US and European Union for the removal of the CPP-NPA, NDF and exiled communist rebel leader Jose Ma. Sison from their lists of foreign terrorist groups. Reported by: Sol Jose Vanzi ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
