THE latest about this issue is that Malacañang has debunked the statements made by former president Fidel V. Ramos that, per his sources, some 100 Filipinos have joined the extreme jihadist Islamic State (IS) that has established a caliphate in Iraq.

Mr. Ramos in a television interview said that men of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a break-away army from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, have gone to Iraq to undergo training and will return to the Philippines and wreak havoc and destruction.

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