In ARMM: U.S. Behind A Philippine Election?

(Tuesday, March 27) - A highly anticipated gubernatorial election in the southern Philippines' insurgency-prone Sulu province set for mid-May is being viewed as a rare democratic referendum on the US-led "war on terror" in Southeast Asia. The polls will pit US-linked incumbent Governor Ben Loong against a prominent rebel leader, Nur Misuari, founding chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), an insurgent group created in the early 1970s with the aim of establishing an independent ethnic Moro state from minority Muslim areas in the region... (Asian Times) ...full story here