26th POST MORO STUDIES

January 31, Thursday
Few hours before my UP class

While rummaging thru my box of junk newspaper clippings I got hold of the following article in the Manila Bulletin newspaper undated... I need to dump all these in the garbage else my room will end up like a bote diyaryo bakal junk shop HAR!

This is old & paso na but still worth thinking about... It may have been a counter-propaganda by Misuari's group or a genuine matter-of-fact reporting. We do not know...

For every good or bad clipping I can provide an alternative bad or good clipping... WHICH IS THE TRUTH???

Can you blame me why I DO NOT tRUST BOTH GONZALES & MISUARI & even this BENANING (We had an old woman maid from Zambales named "Aling ANING" whom we hired for a few months & later fled after borrowing some amount of money...!!!
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PALACE AID PLOTTED DIVISION OF MNLF, PROTESTS MISUARI
Norberto Gonzales meddling in Muslim affairs?
by Marvyn Benaning
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Chairman Nur Misuari of the Moro National liberation Front (MNLF) has accused
a top Palace aide for plotting the division of the MNLF and for instigating the
breakaway within the front, an action which he regretted was aimed to isolate him
and dislodge him from an organization that he had led for a long time.
However, Misuari said the door is still open for memvers of the so-called 15-man
"Executive COuncil" to rejoimn the MNLF mainstream leadership, suggesting that it
was Presidential Adviser on Special Concerns, Norberto GOnzales, who had sown
disunity and fivisiveness among the MNLF leaders and the Bangsamoro people.

Misuari charged Gonzales of being principally responsible for encouraging some
memvers of the MNLF Central COmmittee to divide the leadership of the front and
oust him as chairman of its Central committee.

He condemned Gonzales' action and likened him to a "worm that penetrates the rank
and file of the MNLF to destroy them using his money."
The MNLF leader delivered his scathing attack before his uniformed troops during the
Extraordinary Session of the Bangsamoro Peoples's National congress in Cotabato City.

Misuari also isssued a very strong directive to the MNLF not to allow Gonzales to
step in Bangasamoro territory, "adding this man is also instigating President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo not to give autonomy to the MNLF because it is already a spent force."

"This man is evil-minded. He is from Bataan. What rigth sdoes he have to interfere
in our internal affairs in Mindanao? IOf this man will come do not allow this man
to step in our sacred land. Tell him to go back to Bataan, he has no place in Mindanao.
Kilalanin niyo ang mukha niya," said the irate Misuari.

Misuari, who is also the governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),
related that at one time he met Gonzales in Makkah, Saudi Arabia to perform haj or
pilgrimage, GOnzales then claimed that he had converted to Islam.

While blasting away at Gonzales, who is a leader of the Pilipino Democratic Socialist Party (PDSP)
Misuari nevertheless offered a hand of peace to the members of the MNLF breakaway group
that reduced him to chairman emeritus, a largely symbolic and toothless position.

The MNLF has this policy of reconcilition with elements who may have been misled, or who had
fallen to the blandishcments of Gonzales. "With due apology to the good elemtnts in that
group (Executive COuncil). I pray to almighty Allah that they will be given wisdom, so that
one day they will return back to our fold. They are welcome anytime."

He urged the MNLF leaders and supporters to talk to this group.

Misuari appealed to these people to encourage the group that split to return and "kowtow
to the money and influence of Norberto Gonzales." He said Gonzales was responsible for
the appointment of some of the members of this group to high government positions.

Misuari exhorted his supporters not to plant the seeds of hatred with those "who deviated
from our path' and asked all of them to see the problem as a challenge to the unity and
solidarity of the MNLF leadership and the Bangsamoro people.
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MY COMMENT:
I ASK THE MNLF ALL FACTIONS (MBG, EC 15, ICC etc etc MILF MNIF MLNF MLIF etshetera:

SINO'NG NAGPAPASOK KINA GONZALES (& the late MANGLAPUS???) SA KAMPO NG MNLF SA JAMPIRAS, SABAH?!
WHO INVITED THE PDSP INCLUDING GONZALES TO STAY INSIDE MNLF's JAMPIRAS CAMP IN SABAH???!!!

Well, you can consider me an out-of-touch-with-reality DREAMER -
an original TOP 1 member of the ORIGINAL, PURE, UNSULLIED 1969 MNLF!
[Kaso mo HISTORY na lang ito...]

Will write my own ideas about the MN, MI, ASG, MORO etc. that will give EYE-OPENING LESSONs to MINDANAW MOROs
SAMPLE: Moro kayo ng Moro eh ni hindi ninyo kilala o kinikilala ang pinaka-unang tinawag na mga "Moro" ng mga Kastila sa kapuluang ito - yung mga taga MAMBURAO MINDORO!!!...

PAHABOL: THE VERY FIRST MOROs I became acquainted with/befriended more than a decade ago were MISUARI's MNLF...