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Since 2000, more than 20 bombings have rocked this politically unstable town, home to some 30,000 Muslims and Christians.


Parang Mayor Talib Abo, chairman of the municipal peace and order council, said he was stunned to receive such an extortion letter.


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The latest to undergo drug tests at the ARMM police crime laboratory here were Talib Abo, a mayoral bet in the hostile and controversial town of Parang, Maguindanao, and his running mate, re-electionist Vice Mayor Adnan Biruar. 


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VICE MAYOR ADNAN BIRUAR

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Since 2000, more than 20 bombings have rocked this politically unstable town, home to some 30,000 Muslims and Christians.


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Maguindanao town’s top execs get extortion letters

By John Unson | September 21, 2005 - 12:00am

PARANG, Maguindanao — The police and the military have tightened security in this municipality after its mayor and vice mayor both received extortion letters threatening to bomb populated areas if they refuse...

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Only 4 of over 1,000 ARMM bets undergo drug tests

By John Unson | February 7, 2004 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — Only four out of over a thousand aspirants for elective positions in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have so far submitted themselves to mandatory drug tests for candidates in...

Nation