The Word Unheard has an interesting post covering North Korean arms shipments to the hilariously-named Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Philippines. Astuteblogger has further reports.
North Korea's utterly failed economy, appetite for cash, and willingness to sell weapons to anyone are all well known. If they are in fact arming al-Qaeda affiliates, it adds a new dimension to debates about their nuclear and missile programs.
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This puts a whole new spin on the term" MILF Hunter" LOL
TBone65
ROTFLMAO!
My God! Call Team America! Alec Baldwin is behind it all!
Wow! I get a lot of spam-mail about MILFs, but I never realized...... Wow!
It's definitely troubling, to say the least. What is somewhat ironic, though, is the fact that these arms could eventually be used against Korea by the mujahideen. Communism is, after all, shirk government.
The interesting question begging to be answered, assuming the reports are correct is where did the MILF get the reported $2.2 million to pay for the arms shipment? Jema’ah Islamiyah?
This is exactly like what the BBC's Humphrey Hawksley predicts in The Third World War. And I don't like the ending.
Where would N.Korea get 10,000 M-16 rifles anyway?
Haroldaaron:
MILF has been linked to many other terror groups, namely Abu Sayef, al Qaida and, as you suggested, Jeam'ah Islamiyah. They control a fair amount of Mindanao.
Mark Benson:
Many of them left behind in the Vietnam war, many of them likely black marketed from others we have armed (teh ARVN's of the world). Not too difficult, really. But 10,000 is a lot (comes out to one for every MILF terrorist on Mindanao).
It's the mini-sub that should be alarming to us.
I have updated the story several times.
My finsl (srt of final) post has a link to a story reported in 2003 that sounds nearly verbatim like the one reported last week. This is recycled news. That does not bother me. What bothers me is that I missed this the first time around (the intelligence was gathered FEB03, not NOV04). Doesn't change the threat at all.
How'd we miss this?
Thanks for the link, WoC, and thanks for everyone's interest. This is a big story getting no consideration. Shame on us for that.