11.   The OIC has increasingly been playing a role as a peacemaker, including mediating an end to a Muslim rebellion in the Philippines last month.

12.   The Philippines is also besieged by a Muslim separatist rebellion in the poor, violence-prone south.

13.   Mindanao is a hotbed of three decades of Muslim separatist rebellion in this largely Roman Catholic Southeast Asian nation.

14.   Muslim separatist rebellions in the south, communist guerrilla attacks and violent kidnappings are turning away productive capital.

15.   Pakistan denies Indian allegations that it foments the Muslim rebellion.

16.   She said Interior Secretary Jose Lina will lead the task force in eastern Mindanao, which has been largely free of Muslim rebellion.

17.   The Abu Sayyaf, a small but ruthless gang of kidnappers that behead many of its victims, was bred amid three decades of Muslim separatist rebellions.