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02-19-2003, 01:12 AM

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The separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said yesterday they will not stage sympathy attacks on US targets if Washington goes to war in Iraq.

"We will not participate (in sympathy attacks). We have a hands off policy insofar as the Iraq issue is concerned," MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu said.

Kabalu said fears that Islamic militants, including the MILF, would launch sympathy attacks are "baseless."

Local communist guerrillas earlier vowed to launch attacks against government forces to help out the beleaguered MILF rebels.

The New People’s Army (NPA), through its spokesman Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, warned they would launch sympathy attacks if the United States carried out its threat to strike Iraq.

Notwithstanding their losses in which their stronghold in Pikit fell to government control last week, Kabalu said the MILF wanted "peaceful negotiations" to end the Iraq crisis.

The 12,000-strong MILF has been waging a 24-year insurgency in Mindanao.

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