Jade Verde
JADE VERDE is a Featured News Writer in Zamboanga City of the Philippines. He is also a member of the Zamboanga Press Club and the Zamboanga Columnists' Club.
Articles by Jade Verde
May 23, 2010
(The Media Center of the Silsilah Dialogue Movement, in collaboration with its Founder, Fr. Sebastiano D´Ambra, PIME, is grateful to have allowed the publication of this Condensed Article, a specific event in the Silsilah History. For more information about the Silsilah movement, see their web (www....
January 15, 2010
(The Ampatuan Massacre---after the surname of the suspected chief perpetrators, and of the place where the mass graves were found---happened on the morning of November 23, 2009, in the town of Ampatuan in Maguindanao province, in Mindanao of the Philippines. The victims were about to file a Certific...
November 09, 2009
IT IS SO righteous for bonafide Filipino citizens to go out of their way to join in Anti-terrorism campaigns of various ways---from print to broadcast, to the 'Parliament of the Streets.' Effective aftermath will not be an overnight process, but, as the saying goes, 'the journey of a thousand miles ...
August 28, 2009
THE GOVERNMENT of the Republic of the Philippines and law-enforcing authorities, a joint set of disciplinary implementers, was intended to focus concern on terrorism-related civilian tragedies that we believe has not been given the full attention it deserves. This is due to the fact that media and "...
August 21, 2009
AUGUST 26 is the worldwide celebration day of the Foundation Day of the International Zeta Phi Omega Fraternal Society-1975. This year marks the fraternal society's 34th year of pleasant friendship and camaraderie among peoples from all faiths, and from many walks of life.
Bonafide peace-advocati...
May 28, 2009
A NEW LEGISLATIVE initiative can require the Philippine government to publish and disclose in an Online Database all national and local governmental contracts, grants, and other forms of financial transaction.
I like to think of this prospective law as a ´Crystal-clear Glass to Government Expendi...
April 04, 2009
ON THE EVENING of January 8, 2009, bakery owner Eliseo "Toto" Hablo Jr. was forcibly abducted by unidentified male persons outside his residence at Governor Camins Avenue, Barangay Canelar, in Zamboanga City of the Philippines.
In the morning of February 10, Police Forces finally rescued him, in ...
March 23, 2009
THE CHAIN OF 16 MUNICIPALITIES that was once gravely burdened by various types of Terrorists Abuse, is now displaying a reciprocation of Peace and Economic Gain. It is no other than Zamboanga Sibuguey of the Philippines.
Zamboanga Sibuguey was formerly a part of rebel-infested Zamboanga del Sur. ...
February 11, 2009
BECAUSE of the ineffective 'No Ransom Policy' to the demands for ransom of the Moro terror abductors, Philippine Congress should pass and approve the Bill calling for the allotment of a percentage amount of the annual Intelligence Fund, as ransom money for the release of kidnap victims in Zamboanga ...
January 05, 2009
(The Philippine Hizzoners are the sole authorities in disposing the unaccounted Intelligence Funds which are to be used in exchange for the accumulation of vital information and services (from the Intell communities), to maintain countrywide sound peace and order situation. Currently, these top loca...
December 21, 2008
IN a past writing here, I mentioned about elements of a packed Community Intell Network who go to the extent of hacking people's e-mail addresses in the attempt of Trying Hard to discover Classified Information.
This is the reason why I yield my space today to elaborate further on the aspect of ...
November 18, 2008
IT IS A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT for the Philippine Intelligence communities to pool up their resources, to purchase the country's Intell Visual and Auditory Documentation Satellite.
In this manner, the country will have its own Bird Of Espionage (which could be modified for the Philippine setting) to ...
October 21, 2008
FIGHTING the wars on Terrorism in the Philippines (and even other third world countries) should only be left to the Effective Performance of the United States of America.
The Philippine government, in particular, has long been battling Moro rebel forces in the Southern part of the country---and,...
September 14, 2008
THE US Intelligence Visual and Auditory Documentation Satellite was recently restored with new espionage amenities by American space-age engineers.
The elite technical experts supplemented extraordinary technological engineering with the satellite and set it to full operation.
The technologica...
September 06, 2008
THE ISSUE of a woman allowing herself to be raped could surely be a much debated and misunderstood one. I am not trying to settle any debates here because I know that is a petty thing to do. I only wish to present to you, my reading publics, my personal opinion of what is most likely to happen to AN...
August 06, 2008
ILLEGALLY CAPTURED terrorists and other leftists involved with terrorist crimes are usually transferred from one Intell group to another, for Interrogation that rises to the level of Torture.
This is commonly done through Strictly-guarded Abductions (Plan A) and Secret Transfers (Plan B), by whic...
August 01, 2008
HOPEFULLY, there shall be the countrywide rise in the number of critics on the alleged flaws of the Philippine Intelligence groups. And hopefully, when this time comes, the Intell echelons shall refrain from imposing any form of restriction on information articles from the outfits of print, radio, t...
July 24, 2008
(Whenever I write about the Philippine Intelligence units in critical terms, I get e-comments from the reading public, no less, who share my views. This is the reason why I continue to fill my space today with the latest Intell predicament that needs a total "rehabilitation".---BY THE WAY, who's th...
July 19, 2008
THIS WRITING reminds me of the good-mannered Col. Darwin Z. Guerra of Task Force Zamboanga (TFZ). Lately, he successfully organized Intell Network Groups in crime-infested barangays in Zamboanga City, Philippines.
The communal groups aim to widen the authorities' awareness of whereabouts of terro...
July 13, 2008
THERE IS A NEED to impose strictly limited Classified Responsibility on Intelligence Contractual Employees. Philippine Congressional Representatives with prime interest for sound Intelligence safety should say so in a new Bill for the 2009 Intelligence Program. In this manner, the propensity to fiel...
May 28, 2008
THE PHILIPPINE CONGRESS must seek to continuously ban the country's Intelligence communities from fatally interrogating Non-terroristic Captives.
I categorically suggest that there should be the special banning of Flat Iron Torture, and other Third Degree methods of interrogation with Non-terror...
April 16, 2008
FINANCIAL GAIN, no matter how perverted, is the top factor in motivating Philippine Intell agents to betray the Filipino peoples and the allied foreign countries such as the United States of America, Canada and Australia.
However, Intell agents' DIVIDED LOYALTIES for both the Right and Left wing...
April 13, 2008
THE PHILIPPINE INTELLIGENCE groups' unwritten memo on the alleged killings and tortures of terrorists and other enemy combatants [that were orally passed on through the years] exemplifies the violation of Military Procedure System.
The disappointment that the Philippine publics will most likely ...
April 06, 2008
I STRONGLY suggest for the legislation that will bring to existence the provision of Philippine Intell-documented State Secrets for Civilian Consumption in various sectors of society.
Since the Philippine Intell documents, in their simplicity, DO NOT contain sensitive national security informatio...
April 02, 2008
WILL Philippine President Gloria Arroyo finally sign the Land-granting Peace Pact with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as legacy to the Muslim tribes? In less than three years before she consummates her term in 2010, the country's biggest rebel group, the MILF, is skeptical whether La President...
March 03, 2008
TO KEEP the Philippine publics abreast with issues of Intelligence works on the various leftist and terroristic cases in the country, the Intelligence communities should launch a website containing all the documents of their highly classified fulfilled activities.
The Intel organizations should a...
February 18, 2008
THERE IS A GREAT NEED for the legislation that will specifically penalize and punish (and even decapitate) radical and left wing Philippine mediamen who, in any manner, (1) Downgrade the country's well-reputed status in their respective medium of communication, (2) Take sides with politically opposi...
February 17, 2008
"More bombings in Mindanao coming. Brace yourself for more bombings."
This is the gist of a latest Philippine Intel report which also identifies the Al-Khobar Extortion Group as a chief perpetrator of the bombings.
In a statement, the Kilusang Mayo Uno warned of the repercussions from the poss...
January 26, 2008
FOR THE PENTAGON to lead in establishing full civilian control of the Philippine Intelligence communities will be the CIA's crucial challenge and far-flung milestone.
Among the other Asian third world countries, the Philippines has not taken the much-needed initiative in this direction.
As the...
January 22, 2008
LET this writer unleash himself from besetting socio-political reservations with this candid article, hence:
Abangan! This is the dawning of the age of Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) in the United States of America.
The Pentagon Defense Department must therefore submit a plan of proposal to Mala...
December 27, 2007
THE ABILITY of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines to assess the honesty and integrity of the country's Intelligence communities can be questioned by Filipinos who are capable of seeing the Intel groups' departure from the norms of accepted Intelligence conduct.
This includes the Ad...
December 13, 2007
WAHAB M. AKBAR (April 19, 1960 - November 13, 2007) was governor of the province of Basilan from 1998 to 2007. He was killed in a well-orchestrated bomb explosion at the outer ground of the Philippine Congress on November 12, 2007.
Akbar was 47 years old. He was survived by his four wives and hi...
November 13, 2007
BEAT RESPONDENTS based in Sulu, the southernmost part of the Philippines, claimed that this region has now become a Moro Islamic Liberation Front-Abu Sayyaf Group (MILF-ASG) region.
They said the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) has steadily decided to "lay low", and remain as a "flawless"...
November 02, 2007
IT WAS during this year's fasting month of Ramadan that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) had decided to proceed with their all-out war against the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
Indeed, because of the right choice of time, they continually succeed in their efforts to gradually gun down a lot o...
October 30, 2007
CONTRARY to the arbitrary description of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Armed Forces of the Philippines' Civil-Military Approach to the Mindanao insurgency problem is neither "lethal" nor "brute force". This is the main geist of the Philippine military's statement of clarification i...
October 08, 2007
ONE of the most effective ways to be pleased with current religious-cum-political situations in the Philippines, and in any country of the world, is to condition oneself to be pleased with national government decisions, without expecting to meet one's need and expectation.
This is to imply that t...
August 20, 2007
THIS ARTICLE is the result of a thorough research study that chronicles the kinds of terrorists and acts of terrorism in the Philippine setting. It vividly features bits and pieces of the peculiar exploits, as well as the way of life, of every Filipino terrorists, from their motives of attacks in ev...
August 15, 2007
BEGINNING in the 21st century, with the abductions-for-ransom of foreign and national tourists, the killing of American servicemen, the bombing of corporate institutions, and the bombing of the MV Superferry passenger vessel, we have witnessed the most serious wave of terrorist violence in Philippin...
June 13, 2007
THE ABU Sayyaf ("Bearer of the Sword") Group was founded by Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani (the original link of the Philippine terror group to the Al Qaeda international terror organization). He was killed in a shootout with CIA-inspired Philippine police authorities in 1998.
Subsequent leader wa...
February 02, 2007
(Resources and information of this specific article are based on candid interviews with beat respondents in Zamboanga City, Philippines.---ED)
THE GOVERNMENT of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), through the Department of Education (DepEd), must be sensitive enough to feel the "sincerity of r...
December 11, 2006
(Resources and information of this specific article are based on clandestine interviews with beat respondents in the neighboring outskirts of Zamboanga City, Philippines.---ED)
I HAVE been quietly gathering data from beat respondents about the constant secret funding of money to prospective terro...
November 15, 2006
(Resources and information of this article are based on the one-on-one interviews with police beat respondents on the witness stand, in Zamboanga City, Philippines.---ED)
FOR THE PAST WEEKS, policemen and militarymen alike were killed in agressive gun attacks in Zamboanga City, in the Southern Ph...
November 09, 2006
(Resources and information of this article are based on the complaints of Zamboangueña artists Claudina Mendoza and Lorna Fernandez, and Balikatan Serviceman Major Troy Ellis, in Zamboanga City, Philippines.---ED)
I'M NOT IMPRESSED with the Jambangan Junior Chamber International Jaycees Club in t...
October 22, 2006
(Resources and information of this article are based on an exclusive beat interview with officials of a Philippine Information Agency (PIA) branch office, in Southwestern Mindanao, Philippines.---ED)
MORO FAMILIES in the Philippines had over and over again engaged in bloody battles against eac...
September 09, 2006
(Resources and information of this article are based on the ELECTRIC POWERLINE ANTI-PILFERING PROGRAM of the Philippine National Transmission Corporation [Transco] in Iligan City, Philippines.---ED)
TWO LINKING FACTORS lead to the continuous breakdown of electrical power facilities within the Phi...
August 05, 2006
AS OF PRESSTIME, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) already made the full assessment that the 'Land Grant Peace Talk Process' with the Philippine government will not be fulfilled this year, despite repeated follow-ups by several rebel group officials to finally consummate the September 2006 ti...
July 31, 2006
THE MORO National Liberation Front (MNLF), Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), and all the other Al-Qaeda-linked extremist groups in the Philippines had now run doubtful of yet unused strategies for piracy and other forms of terrorism, since many of their terroristic plots ...
July 26, 2006
IN BEHALF of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), it's Communications Deputy Chairman predicted that the Philippine government will not be capable of terminating the communist-inspired National Democratic Front (NDF) and New People’s Army (NPA) in the Philippines.
He said "the CPP/NDF/NPA gr...
July 22, 2006
TO THE SURPRISE of the wary publics, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are traditionally unified in their ranks, and they rally their efforts and act jointly for any development (peaceful or otherwise) among the Bangsamoro people. This fact is not...
July 20, 2006
IT IS indeed fitting and effective to constantly monitor the presence of the Al Qaeda (AQ) and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist mentor networks in the Philippines, particularly in Mindanao.
The AQ and JI presence in the country is NOT A DEAD ISSUE. In fact, these two foreign terror culprits are a...
July 18, 2006
"THE MAN who gunned down Isabela City Mayor Luis Biel II is a Secret Fatwa Accomplice."
These are collective statements from the predominantly Moro beat respondents in Isabela City and the nearby municipalities of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), in the Southern Philippines' p...
July 15, 2006
ADMITTED OR NOT, only the Moro terrorist groups are behind the spate of bomb blasts in the Philippines since time immemorial.
These series of explosions killed and wounded so many innocent non-Muslim persons and institutions along the annals of Philippine history.
It is a practice for each t...
July 13, 2006
PHILIPPINE days ahead are keenly monitored by the whole world as a whole, and the Filipino people in particular. The present situation, no matter how homely, has not deprived the country from remaining to be a comforting sanctuary to the Filipinos. This is made possible by an effective government co...
July 04, 2006
"REPENTANT" Philippine Moro Terrorists, who had long been deprived of the normal peaceful life, and had been cold-blooded criminals for many years, are up to ten times more likely to commit other related crimes than the general population of society's criminals. This is a collective testimony of bea...
April 26, 2006
POLICE authorities in Zamboanga City have recently uncovered a clandestine fraternal practice of mauling innocent civilians with aluminum and wooden baseball bats, by drug-crazed moro fratmen, during the unguarded hours of the night.
Officials said that the plot was discovered following the captur...
April 22, 2006
THE MOROS all over the Philippines, especially in war torn Mindanao, clamoring for the pullout of military forces in the Muslim-dominated areas, treacherously declare that it's a big risk for the Philippine government to continue to deploy these forces in their midst. "In case of legal persistence,"...
April 11, 2006
YOUNG ASPIRANTS in clandestine terrorist camps throughout the Philippines, who are jointly trained on the varied subjects of Terroristic Warfare by Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah terror cell instructors, are graduating one-after-the-other from their training courses.
Despite the forging of the ...