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		<title>Justice Secretary Agra, why did you throw out an eyewitness report implicating Zaldy Ampatuan?</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/04/19/justice-secretary-agra-why-did-you-throw-out-an-eyewitness-report-implicating-zaldy-ampatuan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra exonerated Muslim Mindanao Governor Zaldy Ampatuan of the Ampatuan, Maguinandao massacre because he said Governor Zaldy was not there at the scene of the crime. Governor Zaldy had a plane ticket and cellphone records to prove this, he said. But no witness ever said Gov. Zaldy was at the massacre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice from a suspected Abu Sayyaf co-founder and the Mindanao challenge for the next President</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/04/14/advice-from-a-suspected-abu-sayyaf-terrorist-the-mindanao-challenge-for-the-next-president/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2010/04/14/advice-from-a-suspected-abu-sayyaf-terrorist-the-mindanao-challenge-for-the-next-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti=terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindanao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdul Basir Latip]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamic revivalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Raissa Robles Following today&#8217;s bombings in Basilan, I would like to share this piece I wrote on: What an alleged c0-founder  of the Abu Sayyaf  told me about the terrorist group; Why a failed peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front would not result in an outbreak of conflict (unless provoked by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo about sex was easier than asking about politics and her feelings</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/01/31/an-eat-and-tell-story-about-a-rare-dinner-date-with-president-gloria-macapagal-arroyo/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2010/01/31/an-eat-and-tell-story-about-a-rare-dinner-date-with-president-gloria-macapagal-arroyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asking Pres. Gloria Arroyo about sex...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ex-defense secretary Gilberto Teodoro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Benigno Aquino III]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly eight years ago I asked President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,  “I’m sure a lot of women are dying to ask you this question.” “And since you are not a widow, they would like to ask you this question. You don’t have to answer this if you don’t want to, but a lot of women are dying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2: FOCAP members are told how the Ampatuans became rebels instead of suspected monster murderers</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/15/part-2-the-ampatuans-are-the-type-of-rebels-that-foreign-media-have-not-encountered/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/15/part-2-the-ampatuans-are-the-type-of-rebels-that-foreign-media-have-not-encountered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presidential powers - Martial Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andal Ampatuan Jr.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maguindanao massacre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before Martial Law was imposed in Maguindanao, the Ampatuans were known worldwide as the prime suspects in the deliberate liquidation of 57 people, 30 of  them journalists. This has set a world record for the worst one-day killing of media men in peace time, while covering a democratic exercise. To understand how stupefied many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yikes! President Arroyo imposed martial law  by citing the wrong Republic Act establishing a village school</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/05/yikespresident-arroyo-imposed-martial-law-using-a-law-establishing-a-village-high-school-as-one-of-her-basis/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/05/yikespresident-arroyo-imposed-martial-law-using-a-law-establishing-a-village-high-school-as-one-of-her-basis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citing the wrong law as the legal basis shows that this  martial law is so sloppily put together.  I fear the suspected murderers can get away with murder by exploiting precisely this sloppiness. In this instance, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Proclamation 1959 using the following as her basis for declaring Martial Law: the Constitution and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted urgently: another backhoe to dig up the 58th missing massacre victim in Ampatuan, Maguindanao</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/03/wanted-urgently-another-backhoe-to-dig-up-59th-missing-massacre-victim/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/03/wanted-urgently-another-backhoe-to-dig-up-59th-missing-massacre-victim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peruvian forensic anthropologist  aDr. Jose Pablo Baraybar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We need a backhoe to empty out the previously excavated mass graves to sift through the debris to ascertain whether an untouched part of the grave may still hold some human remains,” according to Peruvian forensic anthropologist Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar who is helping gather forensic evidence to use in the coming court trial. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lakas-Kampi Party standard bearer Gilberto Teodoro knows part of the reason why the Maguindanao massacre happened</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/11/26/266/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/11/26/266/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ex-defense secretary Gilberto Teodoro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A source who personally knows members of the Ampatuan family has just told me this piece of disturbing news: First, assuming the son Andal Ampatuan Jnr. carried out the crime, the son is NOT the mastermind. The son reportedly carried it out on someone else&#8217; orders.  The key to finding the mastermind is the back [...]]]></description>
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