Podcasts about Abu Sayyaf

Captain Gene Yu is a West Point graduate and served in the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets). He was initially kicked out of SERE school for breaking protocol and ordering pizza during a training exercise- a story that garnered a lot of attention within the special forces community.  Yu was eventually permitted to finish his training, and he deployed to Korea, Japan, Iraq, and the Philippines in the 2000s. He also played a key role in planning Operation Ultimatum, an attempt to capture or kill top Abu Sayyaf operatives.  In 2013, a family friend of Yu's named Evelyn Chang was kidnapped and held for ransom in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group. Evelyn's husband was killed in the ambush. Despite having separated from the military, Yu utilized his special forces skills, connections, and familiarity with Abu Sayyaf to rescue Evelyn. Thanks to his efforts, a group of 80 Abu Sayyaf terrorists, including three leaders, were taken out.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nerds Talking: Deadpool and Wolverine Hit Theaters, Joker 2 Trailer, Land of Bad Review, and Olympics Debate This week on Nerds Talking, we dive into the highly anticipated release of Deadpool and Wolverine! The movie has finally hit theaters, but will you watch it? Carlos already has, but he's keeping tight-lipped to avoid any spoilers. The excitement doesn't stop there; the trailer for Joker 2 has just dropped, and Marie has some strong opinions about the upcoming film that you won't want to miss. Next, we review the intense American war film *Land of Bad*. Directed by William Eubank and co-written with David Frigerio, this film stars an impressive cast including Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth, Ricky Whittle, and Milo Ventimiglia. The story follows Captain Eddie "Reaper" Grimm, a US Air Force drone pilot, and Staff Sergeant Nia Branson as they provide air support for a US Army Delta Force team on a mission to rescue a CIA spy in the southern Philippines. Amidst a fierce firefight with the Abu Sayyaf, Sergeant JJ "Playboy" Kinney, a young Air Force TACP Airman attached to the Delta Force team, is seemingly the only survivor and must rely on the Reaper's remote air support to reach the extraction point. Lastly, we turn our attention to the Olympics. We debate the inclusion of certain "sports" in the games—are they truly sports, or just games? Join us as we break down what belongs in the Olympics and what doesn't. Tune in for all this and more on this week's episode of Nerds Talking the Podcast! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nerdstalking/support

On this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Gene Yu, Founder & CEO of Blackpanda.Gene has a diverse background, with early roles at Palantir's Asia office and Credit Suisse on Wall Street. He also served as a team leader in the US Army Special Forces, completing four combat tours in Iraq and the Southern Philippines. Gene is an active angel investor, renowned for leading the successful rescue of Evelyn Chang from Abu Sayyaf terrorists in 2013. He graduated with top honors in computer science from West Point and has attended Johns Hopkins University and Stanford's Executive Program.Gene's book, about the incredible rescue of Evelyn Chang, can be purchased here.

Three months after being released on bail, former senator and prisoner of conscience Leila de Lima describes in graphic and terrifying detail the day in prison when she was held captive by an Abu Sayyaf inmate known for beheading hostages.  She reveals that after the hostage taker was shot dead and she was rescued, she received a concerned call from President Marcos, an early sign that his alliance with the Dutertes could be cracking.  That was her scariest moment, she says, but not among her darkest, which were the times she wasn't allowed a furlough from jail to attend the wakes of close friends, including PNoy.  Not originally a cat lover, she adopted stray cats in prison to keep her company. She took several home after her release and one of them insisted on joining her for this interview.  Otherwise, she was in solitude for nearly seven years while imprisoned in Camp Crame and one of the rare VIP inmates without a mobile phone. "I wanted to follow the rules," she tells Howie Severino. She also was not allowed access to the Internet, so she kept up with the outside world through print newspapers and printouts of online articles delivered by her senate staff.  She says she never lost faith in the judicial system, which she's confident will vindicate her and declare her innocent of all charges.  Yet for the alleged crimes of former President Rodrigo Duterte, she says the only recourse is the International Criminal Court because there is a "clear demonstration of the unwillingness and inability" of the Philippine justice system to investigate.  "That's one of the reasons why nagwawala na si Duterte. Out na ang antagonism niya kay President Marcos because I think he suspects the BBM administration is really cooperating with the ICC." Meanwhile, as she vows to assist the ICC gather evidence, de Lima is back to teaching law and spending time with her aged mother, who was never told by her protective family what her famous daughter went through. 

Three months after being released on bail, former senator and prisoner of conscience Leila de Lima describes in graphic and terrifying detail the day in prison when she was held captive by an Abu Sayyaf inmate known for beheading hostages.  She reveals that after the hostage taker was shot dead and she was rescued, she received a concerned call from President Marcos, an early sign that his alliance with the Dutertes could be cracking.  That was her scariest moment, she says, but not among her darkest, which were the times she wasn't allowed a furlough from jail to attend the wakes of close friends, including PNoy.  Not originally a cat lover, she adopted stray cats in prison to keep her company. She took several home after her release and one of them insisted on joining her for this interview.  Otherwise, she was in solitude for nearly seven years while imprisoned in Camp Crame and one of the rare VIP inmates without a mobile phone. "I wanted to follow the rules," she tells Howie Severino. She also was not allowed access to the Internet, so she kept up with the outside world through print newspapers and printouts of online articles delivered by her senate staff.  She says she never lost faith in the judicial system, which she's confident will vindicate her and declare her innocent of all charges.  Yet for the alleged crimes of former President Rodrigo Duterte, she says the only recourse is the International Criminal Court because there is a "clear demonstration of the unwillingness and inability" of the Philippine justice system to investigate.  "That's one of the reasons why nagwawala na si Duterte. Out na ang antagonism niya kay President Marcos because I think he suspects the BBM administration is really cooperating with the ICC." Meanwhile, as she vows to assist the ICC gather evidence, de Lima is back to teaching law and spending time with her aged mother, who was never told by her protective family what her famous daughter went through. 

Three months after being released on bail, former senator and prisoner of conscience Leila de Lima describes in graphic and terrifying detail the day in prison when she was held captive by an Abu Sayyaf inmate known for beheading hostages. She reveals that after the hostage taker was shot dead and she was rescued, she received a concerned call from President Marcos, an early sign that his alliance with the Dutertes could be cracking. That was her scariest moment, she says, but not among her darkest, which were the times she wasn't allowed a furlough from jail to attend the wakes of close friends, including PNoy. For the alleged crimes of former President Rodrigo Duterte, she says the only recourse is the International Criminal Court because there is a "clear demonstration of the unwillingness and inability" of the Philippine justice system to investigate. "That's one of the reasons why nagwawala na si Duterte. Out na ang antagonism niya kay President Marcos because I think he suspects the BBM administration is really cooperating with the ICC." Meanwhile, as she vows to assist the ICC gather evidence, de Lima is back to teaching law and spending time with her aged mother, who was never told by her protective family what her famous daughter went through. The Howie Severino Podcast reached out to former President Rodrigo Duterte's camp. As of posting, there is no comment yet from his office. Producer: Aubrey Delos Reyes Researcher: MJ Cerillo Editor: Jayr Magtoto

Three months after being released on bail, former senator and prisoner of conscience Leila de Lima describes in graphic and terrifying detail the day in prison when she was held captive by an Abu Sayyaf inmate known for beheading hostages. She reveals that after the hostage taker was shot dead and she was rescued, she received a concerned call from President Marcos, an early sign that his alliance with the Dutertes could be cracking. That was her scariest moment, she says, but not among her darkest, which were the times she wasn't allowed a furlough from jail to attend the wakes of close friends, including PNoy. For the alleged crimes of former President Rodrigo Duterte, she says the only recourse is the International Criminal Court because there is a "clear demonstration of the unwillingness and inability" of the Philippine justice system to investigate. "That's one of the reasons why nagwawala na si Duterte. Out na ang antagonism niya kay President Marcos because I think he suspects the BBM administration is really cooperating with the ICC." Meanwhile, as she vows to assist the ICC gather evidence, de Lima is back to teaching law and spending time with her aged mother, who was never told by her protective family what her famous daughter went through. The Howie Severino Podcast reached out to former President Rodrigo Duterte's camp. As of posting, there is no comment yet from his office. Producer: Aubrey Delos Reyes Researcher: MJ Cerillo Editor: Jayr Magtoto

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PATREON PREVIEW - In this episode of Atlas Analysis, we speak to Andi Muhammad 'Vio' Basro (one of our writers) about Abu Sayyaf, also known as the IS' East Asia Province. Full episodes of Atlas Analysis only available at patreon.com/moderninsurgent

For a long time, the island of Jolo, one of the southernmost points of the Philippines archipelago, was off limits. It was the stronghold of one of the most violent terrorist movements in the world, Abu Sayyaf. In 2000, a group of 20 tourists were kidnapped in Malaysia and taken to Jolo. Journalists who covered the kidnapping were then also captured. Negotiations for their release took several months. Today, after 30 years of fighting with the Philippine army, Abu Sayyaf is almost defeated and the island has begun to find peace. FRANCE 24's Constantin Simon, Alexis Bregere, Sherbien Dacalanio and Aruna Popuri report.

Today, Megan is sitting down with Gracia Burnham. If you don't know her already, Gracia is a Christian missionary who was held hostage and was in captivity for 375 days by Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group in the Philippines. She has an incredible testament and aspiring story as she has found herself in some of the most tragic and difficult situations that a Christian can endure. Gracia is a widow, mother, grandmother, speaker, author, and friend of Megan's Grammy who led way to their introduction. This is an episode that you won't want to miss. Links Gracia's book, In the Presence of My Enemies - https://rstyle.me/+wI0YytM1Sm1SwB8P5hAEXA https://graciaburnham.org/ Get 10% off your first month of Christian Online Counseling with Faithful Counseling: faithfulcounseling.com/shelivespurposefully Crunchi: Get $10 your first order of $50 or more at crunchi.com/meganedmonds She Lives Purposefully Bible Studies (Ruth, Esther, Psalm 23 and 1, 2 & 3 John) https://www.shelivespurposefully.com/slp-studies/ Girl, Read Your Bible FREE Bible Studies Tool Guide https://mailchi.mp/3628f0c0cad7/read-your-bible Shop She Lives Purposefully Crewnecks and Totes: https://www.shelivespurposefully.com/products/shop/ My Bible Bibles and Journals I Love Daily Grace Co Prayer Journals: https://rstyle.me/+_xjG2-XhNRl63D-mA-Cx8Q Daily grace Co Prayer Collection: https://rstyle.me/+ysYDgFWu0tpRq6jNFqeS8g Shop my favorite Christian Living Resource: https://www.shelivespurposefully.com/resources/

Rakyat Filipina memilih. Pemilu presiden Filipina tahun 2022 akan mempertarungkan beberapa nama, tapi ada dua yang paling unggul: Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Sr dan Leni Robredo. Marcos diunggulkan, tapi Robredo terus mengejar. Apakah Filipina akan jatuh kembali ke tangan klan Marcos? Warisan Rodrigo Duterte mana yang akan langgeng? Bareng Rafi, Ikhlas, Hafizh, dan Shofwan, dengerin di Podcast Bebas Aktif! Kita ngomongin: Filipina memilih! Siapa aja yang bertarung dan siapa yang unggul? (4:45) Bongbong Marcos adalah anak dari diktator Filipina di Ferdinand Marcos. Tapi, justru Bongbong yang jadi unggulan di pemilu kali ini. Kenapa bisa gitu? (8:00) Whitewashing sejarah oleh Bongbong Marcos melalui sosial media, termasuk TikTok. (12:04) Ada keinginan sebagian besar rakyat Filipina akan seorang "strongman" yang bisa menstabilkan kondisi. Ada semacam paralel dengan Suharto, sepertinya. (12:58) Apa iya Marcos menawarkan stabilitas? Apa bedanya dia dengan Rodrigo Duterte? (18:54) Presiden Filipina selalu ditantang untuk menyeimbangkan pengaruh Cina dan Amerika Serikat dalam kebijakan luar negerinya. Gimana dengan Marcos dan Robredo? (21:32) Harus seimbangkan AS dan Cina, seberapa penting sih Filipina buat para great powers ini? Ngomongin juga soal Laut Cina Selatan yang gak kelar-kelar. (30:57) Apakah pemilu ini akan mengubah kondisi soal kelompok militan di Mindanao seperti Abu Sayyaf atau Moro? (44:10) PREDIKSI PEMILU FILIPINA 2022: Marcos or Robredo? (49:09) Instagram: @kontekstualcom Twitter: @kontekstualcom YouTube: Kontekstual Kunjungi kontekstual.com untuk berita HI paling aktual!

Maria Ressa, co-founder, president and CEO of Rappler, the top digital news site leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines, discusses the challenges to independent journalists, especially women, in southeast Asia, the Middle East and worldwide; the impact of hi tech social media companies in stifling free media; her experiences covering Abu Sayyaf, and how terrorist organizations exploited social media platforms to promote violence; and more. Ressa, author of the forthcoming Standing up to a Dictator and other books, won the 2021 Noble Peace Prize for her “freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country.” Rappler:https://www.rappler.com/ Subscribe to Reading the Middle East with Gilles Kepel at your favorite listening platforms: Podbean: https://almonitor.podbean.com/Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ulr2pxiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/2XSB84UStitcher: https://bit.ly/3CTjSeXSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Residents of Afghanistan's capital have been queuing up for hours to withdraw strictly limited amounts of cash from their bank accounts. Prices for basic goods are skyrocketing. Also, since 2002, the US has backed the Philippines in fighting Islamist rebels trying to take over the tropical islands. Nearly 20 years on, and the rebels are still there, including a group called Abu Sayyaf, which sympathizes with ISIS, and can be just as vicious. And Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is in Washington today to meet with President Joe Biden. Zelenskiy's plans to meet with then-President Donald Trump were derailed by the impeachment scandal.

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Mike Maroney was a Pararescueman in the United States Air Force from 1996 to 2017. He enlisted on September 11, 1996, after 2 years in the Pararescue/Combat Control Pipeline. He graduated in 1998, was assigned to his first duty station at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia and was stationed there from 1998 to 2002 with the 41st  RQS (Rescue Sqadron) which would later become the 38th RQS.  During his time at Moody Air Force Base he deployed to Operations Northern and Southern Watch in Turkey and Kuwait enforcing the Northern and Southern No Fly Zones. Following his year 2000 deployment to Turkey, he was redeployed while enroute home to a super typhoon in Mozambique.  When the War on Terror began he was in Pakistan during the invasion of Afghanistan. In 2002, Mike pcs'd (permanent change of station) to the 320th  STS (Special Tactics Squadron) at Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa. While there he deployed to Mindanao in the Philippines in the War Against Terror where he was on the Quick Reaction Force attached to an Operational Detachment Alpha fighting Abu Sayyaf.  Mike also trained Thai Pararescuemen and Combat Controllers in Thailand. In 2004, he was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas with the 66th RQS, where he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan twice. In 2006, Mike took an assignment as a Civilian Instructor at the Pararescue CRO Indoctrination Course, joining the 308th RQS, relieving himself from active duty choosing to raise his two young sons as a single parent. Mike was deployed to Afghanistan as well as North and South America for numerous training assignments during this time. Due to pararescue related injuries, accumulated over multiple years, Mike retired in March 2017 as a Master Sergeant with the 308th RQS. Mike is currently working at the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.   Mike is credited with having saved 5,324 lives during his career. Although each of his rescues are equally important, he is most famously known for his rescue during Hurricane Katrina, of LaShay Brown, who he was reunited with on the daytime show, The Real, in 2015 after a long search for her.  In 2017, Mike was featured in People Magazine honoring his service and rescue. Mike naturally shy's away from the press and media and chooses to use his talents and wisdom to train future military and civilian leaders in his free time.  Mike is a motivational speaker, to private and military sector professionals. He uses his experiences in theater as well as his life journeys to teach others the practice of learning, resiliency, follow through and how to maintain a positive, never quit attitude in the most dire of circumstances.  Mike has a passion for surfing, having grown up in Southern California, and travels the world riding waves whenever possible. He has a strict fitness routine of yoga, pilates and swimming. He desires to share his message with as many people as possible showing that a life a service, whether military or  otherwise will contribute to making our world a better place, while building character, a rising tide that raises all ships. Let's Go!!!!!

Gracia Burnham joins me to discuss on her missionary life with Martin, being held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf, and God's provision during the 20 years since being freed from the jungle and losing Martin. Questions Gracia and I Discuss: (4:38) You met and married Martin and eventually moved to the Philippines where you served as missionaries for 17 years.  Tell us what led you to the Philippines and what ministry looked like for you and your family while there. (7:56) What makes you say Martin was born to fly in the jungle? (10:01) You and Martin decide to take a rare trip alone as a couple to celebrate your 18th wedding anniversary.  Walk us through what happened on May 27, 2001 at the Dos Palmas resort.  (12:17) Who were the Abu Sayyaf?  (17:30) You and Martin, along with many other captives were held hostage by Abu Sayyaf, but the majority were released.  Why did they keep you and Martin for another year?  (19:51) How would you describe the conditions overall? (22:37) What thoughts about your kids would go through your mind during captivity? (24:27) Martin often was the one that would kind of pull you up when you were down.. What were some of the things he would say to point you back toward the Lord? (26:02) 911 put you and Martin in the forefront of people's minds. What happened after 911?  (29:56) How did the events of June 7, 2002 unfold Quotes to Remember: "Our job to run a good flight program and Martin wasn't just an ordinary pilot. He was born to fly in the jungle. And he loved what he did." "Martin just knew how to get a loaded Cessna down on a short jungle strip and get it stopped in the next few hundred feet." "These militant Muslims stormed the resort. There was a banging on the door. Before Martin could even get to the door these three guys within M-16's broke the door in and one took him right out. One of them came over to the bed and lowered his weapon at me and yelled, 'Go go go!'. And I said, 'No, no, no, I'm not dressed properly.'. They took me out to after I put on what I'd worn to the beach that night.""At the very beginning, they told Martin we will deal with you last. You'll be political prisoners." "For the most part, we hiked. We moved all the time, because we were trying to stay in front of the Philippine military who were trying to rescue us." "Every once in a while, we would come to a place where we thought we were safe....and we would spend weeks. During those days [we were] totally bored. We were either exhausted or we were bored and witnessing the atrocities." "This huge gun battle, number 17 (we've been through 16 of these before), this Rambo style shooting up the camp... and before I could hit the ground...I was shot in the leg and kind of slid down the slick grass....I came to rest beside Martin and I looked over at him and he was bleeding from his chest. I knew from experience that leg wounds might heal, but chest wounds don't." SHOW NOTES cont. Connect with Gracia Burnham at graciaburnham.org ------------------------------------------------------ Follow Grace Enough Podcast on IG and FB and www.graceenoughpodcast.com ------------------------------------------------

This is the first of many episodes in the Callie and Monique, Taken hostage series. Where we will be focusing on what the married, South African couple went through while being 2 of the 21 hostages that were abducted by Abu Sayyaf rebels on 23 April 2000. An in depth look at the tragic events they and the rest of the hostages experienced during their time in captivity. Also a special shoutout to a True Crime Bones Patron, Debbie from the Right Shoe Podcast. You can also find her on Instagram @shopaholicdeb44 and website www.therightshoepodcast.com Please consider joining the Patreon if you would like to support this podcast and also get a special shoutout. Link is available down below or on truecrime.bones Instagram bio. https://www.patreon.com/truecrimebones Thank you so much for listening. Your host Marissa Bones --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marissa-bones/message

For missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham, a night of celebration turned into a nightmare. On May 27, 2001, they were kidnapped from a resort in the Philippines by the Abu Sayyaf. They were held hostage for more than a year, forced to march through the jungle with little food, no clean water, and witnessing atrocities along the way. It was a year that would test their faith beyond anything they had experienced before.

Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Terorisme, BNPT, menyatakan akan menelusuri lebih jauh jaringan pelaku pemboman bunuh diri di Filipina, di tengah penyelidikan pihak berwenang setempat tentang apakah salah seorang janda adalah perempuan Indonesia. Kepala staf angkatan darat Filipina, Jendral Cirilito Sobejana menyebut dua pengebom bunuh diri pada hari Senin lalu adalah dua janda militan kelompok Abu Sayyaf. Pengeboman itu menyebabkan 14 orang meninggal dan 75 terluka. Kepala BNPT, Boy Rafli Amar mengatakan belum dapat memperkirakan jumlah warga Indonesia yang terlibat dalam kelompok radikal, Abu Sayyaf di negara itu. Namun, ia menekankan kerja sama intelijen enam negara ASEAN untuk anti teror masih berjalan. Menurut seorang mantan kombatan, yang menjalani pelatihan militer di Filipina Selatan, akses menuju negeri jiran itu amat mudah bagi orang yang ingin bergabung dalam jaringan terorisme di negara itu.

On July 3, the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, signed into law the Anti-Terrorism Bill of 2020, commonly known as the “Anti-Terrorism Law.” The bill, which broadens the definition of terrorism, takes effect July 18. Historical context The National Democratic movement in the Philippines has waged a struggle for liberation and democracy against three basic problems: imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism. It is the primary mass movement in the Philippines. The Philippines has been in a state of revolution since the late 1960s and early 1970s with the beginning of a protracted people’s war. The re-founded Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, have been fighting a civil war non-stop since 1969 for the liberation of the Filipino people. The Communist base of power has grown each year, and the NPA now has a presence in a majority of the provinces of the Philippines. As this war developed, groups like Kabataang Makabayan (Patriotic Youth), an organization of youths and students, and MAKIBAKA (Struggle), a militant women’s rights group, organized mass protests, from January to March 1970, against then-President Ferdinand Marcos, who sought to consolidate his power by implementing martial law. The series of mass actions, known as the First Quarter Storm, saw millions of Filipinos take to the streets to challenge the dictatorship. These groups were later forced to go underground during martial law but continued their resistance against Marcos. While they were unafraid of the word “communist,” the legal implications meant death. The protracted people’s war continued and alliances developed, including between the NPA and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, as the revolution increased in strength. However, in 1991, in the southern island of Mindanao, a faction split from the MILF called the Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic separatist group that engaged in bombings, extortion, drug trafficking, and assassination. In 2014, the group swore allegiance to ISIS. In 2016, the Philippine government bombed the city of Marawi, displacing thousands of people. Duterte implemented martial law throughout the island as a means to combat ISIS but, more insidiously, to stifle the revolutionary movement where its forces were most consolidated. In the past two years, overseas Filipinos in the United States have fought tirelessly for the liberation of the homeland. Due to their efforts, the United Nations published a report on Human Rights in the Philippines and more than 300 people mobilized in Washington, D.C., to condemn Duterte’s crimes and war on the people. An episode of NBC’s Superstore had an entire plot line revolving around Duterte’s “War on Drugs,” exposing its violence. Read the full article: https://www.liberationnews.org/philippine-president-duterte-signs-anti-terrorism-bill-into-law/

Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 1Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 2Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 3FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript  References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Getaway Takes a Wrong Turn Guest:                         Gracia BurnhamFrom the series:       In the Presence of My Enemies (Day 2 of 3)  Bob: Back in 2002, for more than 12 months, missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham were held hostage, having been kidnapped by an Islamic terrorist group.  Gracia: For the first few weeks, we were both chained together to a tree. Then they saw that I wasn't going to go anywhere without Martin, and they quit chaining me. Bob: The Burnhams lived for months in the remote jungles of the Philippines, always under the watchful eye of their captors and always on the run. Gracia: We never knew when the guns were going to start blaring—you know, they had found us again; and we would start running. Many times, we would lose everything in one of those gun battles because we weren't prepared every moment. When there are bullets whizzing over your heads, you don't think, "Oh, I have to get my brush, and I need to get my clothes that are drying on the bushes." 1:00 Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, July 2nd. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. We'll talk today with Gracia Burnham and hear a dramatic, compelling story of her life in captivity. Stay with us. And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. We're spending some time this week revisiting a program that was originally recorded and first aired in 2003, as we had the opportunity to sit down with Gracia Burnham. She and her husband Martin had been in the news that year because they had both been kidnapped and held by Islamic terrorists in the Philippines for more than a year. That capture had ended with a rescue attempt. Gracia's husband, Martin, was actually killed in that rescue attempt. 2:00 Gracia shared her story in a book she had written called In the Presence of My Enemies. Honestly, the story she shared was so powerful, it's one of those programs that listeners have talked about for years since it was aired. We wanted you to hear the story again. So here is Part Two of our conversation from 2003 with Gracia Burnham. [Previously Recorded Interview] Dennis: Gracia Burnham has joined us here for a second day. She is the author of In the Presence of My Enemies. She and Martin served in the New Tribes Mission Ministry in the Philippines for more than 17 years. Gracia—welcome back to FamilyLife Today. Gracia: Thank you very much. 3:00 Dennis: When we left off on the story yesterday, you had decided to greet Martin to help him get over his jet lag at a nice, romantic island; but in the middle of the night, you were awakened by a terrorist group who kidnapped you and threw you on a boat, along with 20 others? Gracia: Yes, there were 17 others—there were 20 of us. Dennis: In a boat that was not that large. Gracia: Yes, it was totally overloaded, which is typical for the Philippines, though. They overload everything.  Dennis: The boat ride lasted how long? Gracia: All day long—sun-up to sundown. And then, they transferred us onto a fishing vessel that they had commandeered—which was bigger—but by the time you got 20 hostages—and I think there were about 20 Abu Sayyaf and 10 or 20 fishermen—that vessel was overloaded too. For the next three days, we were out across the ocean on that fishing vessel. Bob: What did you and Martin talk about as you were on the boat? I mean, you had to be kind of trying to figure out: “What's going to happen? How long is this going to go? How do we get out of this?” 4:00 Gracia: You know, we weren't doing a whole lot of talking because we were trying to figure things out. We were trying to listen more than talk. Dennis: You said that, on that boat, the hardest thing, however, were your three children— Gracia: Yes, yes. Dennis: —and the memory of what was being taken away from you, at that point. Gracia: Yes. Right away, the words I'd spoken to my kids: "We'll be gone for one week," came back to me. I knew we weren't going to be gone for just one week. I knew it was—this was going to take a while. I felt so bad for them, and I started praying for them. Bob: And did you think that the ordeal would end—did it typically end with a ransom being paid?  Is that what had happened with the Europeans? Gracia: Yes. It always ended with a ransom being paid. 5:00 Bob: And so, did you think, “That's what will happen—somebody will come up with the ransom”? Gracia: Well, when they were going around the hostages—talking to each one, asking them, you know: “How much can your family pay for you?”—they got to Martin and me. They said: "We will treat you differently. We will ask for political concessions for you, and we will deal with you last." I kind of wish now that we had just said, "Well, you give us the phone; and we'll try to get a ransom together."  Bob: Yes. Gracia: We knew that New Tribes Mission would not pay a ransom. We never expected that because that would put all the missionaries in danger. Bob: Yes, I want to ask you about that because, after you got back, there was an article that appeared in Christianity Today—. Gracia: Oh, yes. Bob: —just because some folks may have read that. Gracia: Yes. Bob: There was some concern that maybe your heart was that New Tribes should have paid a ransom. Gracia: Yes, I don't know how that happened.  6:00 We had a really great interview, but somehow what I meant to say never got communicated in Christianity Today. That article really broke my heart because, in that article, it basically said I had issues with New Tribes Mission; and if they had paid a ransom, Martin would still be alive; and Martin had died needlessly. I never said those things—that's not my heart. The thing that bothered me most about the Christianity Today article is that I don't feel like God got any glory from that article. If that doesn't happen, we wasted a year in the jungle. Bob: Yes. Gracia: That's what hurt me most, I think. Bob: So your heart was—New Tribes should not pay a ransom— Gracia: No. I knew they wouldn't. Bob: —and it's appropriate not to—it puts other missionaries in jeopardy, as you said.  Gracia: Yes. 7:00 Bob: And so if they're not going to do that, you're there at your own peril. Gracia: Oh, yes; and we knew that / we understood that. Bob: It's what you'd signed up for at one level. Now, you never expected it would happen—it doesn't happen to most missionaries—but in the back of your mind, you always knew there is, at least, the possibility that “We could be in danger,”—and that was okay. Gracia: Yes, for sure. Yes, that's part of the job. Dennis: You landed on an island. That began, really, your jungle trek. Gracia: Yes. Dennis: I mean—on, and on, and on you ran from the Philippine Army.  Gracia: Yes. Dennis: Explain to our listeners what the living conditions were like. I mean, it was as primitive as I've ever heard anyone describe it. Gracia: Well, we basically had the clothes on our back. We would walk all day, trying to get to a safe area—"safe."  8:00 Now, most of the Abu Sayyaf guys had hammocks. When it got time to rest or time for the night, they would put their hammocks up between trees. For the first six months, Martin and I just slept on the jungle floor—wherever we happened to be. We didn't have possessions—we didn't have soap—we didn't have, really, anything. Bob: Were you given time to bathe in a river / to shampoo your hair?—there was no shampoo. Gracia: Well, every once in a while, they would let us take a bath.  Bob: Was that a weekly bath that maybe you got? Gracia: Maybe weekly—not usually weekly—every several weeks. I remember—once, Martin went six weeks without a bath. Dennis: The things you treasured were what I found interesting—I mean, a bar of soap/ a toothbrush— Gracia: —a toothbrush, a brush for my hair / a comb—those were wonderful things to have. Bob: And were you wearing the same pair of shorts / same t-shirt that you had put on the night you were captured? How long did you wear that? 9:00 Gracia: Well, pretty much that's what I wore for weeks and weeks. I should explain that our clothes would come and go. You know, what you had on your body is what you had. We never knew when the guns were going to start blaring—you know, they had found us again—and we would start running. When the bullets start whizzing— Dennis: —and when you say, "they had found you again," we're talking again about the Filipino Army. They were in pursuit of this terrorist group, trying to catch them, and free you all. Gracia: Yes. And we never knew when another "encounter"—they called it—was going to start. Many times we would lose everything in one of those gun battles because we weren't prepared every moment. When there are bullets whizzing over your heads, you don't think, "Oh, I have to get my brush— Bob: "I need to pack now." [Laughter] 10:00 Gracia: Yes; "I need to get my brush, and I need to get my clothes that are drying on the bushes." So, our belongings would come and they would go.  Dennis: Many times, Martin would sleep chained or tied to a tree. Gracia: He was always chained to a tree. They had handcuffs for him. At night, they would put a chain through the handcuffs and chain him to a tree. Dennis: But not you? Gracia: Well, for the first few weeks, we were both chained together to a tree. And then they saw that I wasn't going to go anywhere without Martin, and they quit chaining me. Bob: I'm guessing that sleeping with handcuffs on, chained to a tree, is not your preferred method—not the most comfortable way to try and sleep. Gracia: Oh, no; and neither is the jungle floor—you know, we could always find the root if there was a root on the ground—we would find it right where our ribs were. It's like we could never find a flat place—there was always something poking us. 11:00 Dennis: Were you covered with mosquito bites? Gracia: Oh, yes. Oh, for sure. Dennis: I think of the Philippines—I mean, did they just buzz you all night long? Gracia: Yes, they did. We had, for most of our time, what we called malongs. They are big, long pieces of material that have been sewn up the middle to make a tube. Dennis: Kind of like a sleeping bag? Gracia: Kind of—just one-ply—one piece of material. Dennis: Right. Gracia: And that was our blanket. We would just cover as much of us as we could with those malongs to keep the mosquitoes off; but it is also the tropics—and you just start sweating in there. You know, the sweat just starts dripping. So, you can choose to have mosquitoes in your ears and all around, biting you; or you can choose to be sweaty and hot. Dennis: And it would rain too. 12:00 Gracia: Yes, many times we walked and sat in the rain, and we would just be soggy until we drip-dried. Bob: Did your captors feed you? Gracia: They fed us when they had food. There was never enough food. When we first started out, there were about 120 Abu Sayyaf; and that's a lot of people to feed.  Bob: Yes. Gracia: That's a lot of sacks of rice. Bob: So, you would go sometimes days without anything to eat? Gracia: Yes; yes, we would. Bob: Gracia, there had to be, in the midst of this—nights, or days, or times when you are physically exhausted, you are starving, you are covered with mosquito bites—and you are crying out and going, "Lord, I cannot survive this." Gracia: Yes, I said that a lot. And the crying out—I cried a lot. You know, the Abu Sayyaf didn't even like to see that. They hated to see me sitting around crying, but I did it a lot. 13:00 Dennis: Were they cruel to you? Gracia: Yes; I don't know how you define cruelty. On one hand, they were very kind; and if they ate, we ate. But I remember—like, one instance, my reaction to the stress, and the gun battles, and the living conditions was stomach trouble and diarrhea—you know, I always had problems.  One night, I knew I was going to have to go into the forest in the night because I had diarrhea. I told the guy, as he was chaining me: "Could I just be free tonight?  I won't go anywhere. I'll be here in the morning." They refused, and they chained me anyway. I had to go to the bathroom in the night—I thought, “What do I do?” I called my guard, who had the key—who could let me free—he wouldn't let me free.  14:00 To me, that was cruel. They could have let me go to the bathroom. Bob: Their hope with you and with the other hostages was that someone would step forward and pay a ransom. Was that happening? Were there hostages being set free because ransoms were being paid? Gracia: Yes. One by one, the hostages were set free when their families came through with a payment. As time went on, we saw that these political concessions they wanted were not going to happen for us. Bob: Yes. Gracia: And it got to be where they wanted a ransom. Bob: How soon was the earliest hostage set free? Was it a month into the ordeal—do you remember? Gracia: No; one couple was released like less than a week into our captivity. Dennis: Yes. Gracia: And it took about another week for a couple more / and another week for a couple more—then it was several months. 15:00 Bob: How long before it was just you and Martin? Gracia: Six/seven months. Actually, it wasn't just me and Martin—it was me, and Martin, and Ediborah Yap, a Filipina nurse, who had been taken with us, until the end. Dennis: Even in the midst of the cruelty / the suffering, there were moments of brilliant sunshine. It came one day in the form of some letters from your children. Gracia: Yes. Four times during our captivity, mail came into camp in the jungle. How did that happen?—I have no idea. Bob: The Filipino government can't get in and rescue you, but they can get the mail through—alright. Gracia: But mail did come through. That was so neat, and we always loved those letters. We would read them over, and over, and over. Dennis: Well, I want you to read Jeff's letter to you guys— .Gracia: Okay. Dennis: —because I want our listeners to hear this letter.  16:00 I want you to explain the conditions in which you were reading it. Gracia: Okay. The night before, we had been in a gun battle that had lasted all day. We had kind of been trapped by the military in a field. Each way we would go, new gunfire would erupt; and then, under the darkness of night, we snuck out of there and walked all night. Every time we were stopping for a rest, I would go to the bathroom. I took my backpack off once to go to the bathroom. When I came back, the line was starting to move already. I just got in line behind Martin, and then I realized I'd left my backpack behind. I turned around to get it—I could see it. There was a new guard with the group, and he pointed his weapon at me. He said, "No, you go." I said, "My backpack—it's right there," and he wouldn't let me get it.  17:00 I had just lost everything—you know, I had a sheet, I had toothpaste, and I had some underwear. I had just lost everything, and I was heartbroken. I said to Martin: "Oh, Martin, how can you ever forgive me? I've lost everything." And Martin said, "I forgive you, and now you need to forgive yourself."  So, that night—just the heaviness of having lost everything—the next morning we got to a Muslim village. They cooked for us and carried off the wounded for us. As we were sitting there, like, a backpack came into camp with stuff for us. Inside were letters from our children, and every single thing that I had lost the day before was replaced. I couldn't believe it—God just did that for me.  Inside were letters from the kids. Jeff—he was 13 at this time.  18:00 His letter reads: "Hey, my cool parents. We are having fun here with Grandma and Grandpa and all our cousins. Aunt Felicia took us to rent movies just now. It was great. I didn't really enjoy the movie we got, but that's okay. I just wanted to say hi and that I'm looking forward to seeing you again. I'm praying for you. Bye, Jeff (the cool one)." [Laughter] But the letter I love is Zachary's—Zach was 10. He said: "Dear Mom and Dad, how are you? I am fine. We went to Walmart® today. It is fun here. At Mega Mall, we bought two computer games. I will write you back. Love, Zach." “I will write you back,”—[Laughter]—we laughed and laughed. We said: "No! Don't write us back. We're going to be out of here—don't write us back." Dennis: I read those, and I thought how surreal that must have been—to be in the jungle and be hearing about shopping at Walmart.  19:00 Gracia: Yes, it gave us a little glimpse into our children's lives. Bob: Video rentals and computer games. Gracia: Yes, I love it. Dennis: Wow! Bob: Did it also, though, not tear your heart out? Gracia: Oh, yes. Yes, but— Bob: —“they're safe”? Gracia: —but we knew they were fine, and we knew life was normal for them. It felt so good. Bob: But you still gotta get out of there. Gracia: I know. Dennis: I mean—a mother's heart, at that point—that's what, as I read your story here, I just, again, pictured Barbara and how her heart would want to be—“be with my kids / to be with my children—to be a mom—to be a family again.” Gracia: Yes; yes. Dennis: And yet, that had been taken away from you. Bob: And to think, again, Dennis, that this wasn't something that happened because Martin and Gracia were on a vacation—but they were in service for Christ.  Dennis: Right. Bob: This was the reason for the ordeal—because they were faithful followers of Jesus Christ and willing to—even when they went to the field for the first time—to say, “The world behind me, the cross before me—  Dennis: Right. Bob: —you know, “no turning back.” 20:00 Dennis: And I think it's at these points we need to re-read what it means to be a disciple. Jesus said, “If they hated Me, they'll hate you” [John 15:18]. If you're a Christ-follower, then you should expect persecution / you should expect trials and difficulties. Yet, it's in these moments that the Scripture comes back to remind us of the truth: "Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me,” [John 14:1]—Jesus said.  Bob: I think about, Gracia—you reading stories about Amy Carmichael as you were growing up. Gracia: Yes. Bob: And I think about the kids, who are growing up today—they're going to be reading this story. Dennis: Yes. Bob: Yes, Mom and Dad ought to be reading it to them. Gracia: How cool! What a good thought! Dennis: Oh, it's happening. I'm going to tell you—it's going to happen because there needs to be another generation of missionaries. And I believe, Gracia—someday, there will be a young lady who will tell of reading your story— 21:00 Gracia: Oh. Dennis: —and having had God touch her life profoundly to give her the courage and the faith to step out. In fact, I don't believe there will be one lady—I believe there will be many men and women who have drunk deeply from your life, and Martin's, and your courage and your faith. That's really what we wanted to do, here today, on FamilyLife Today—is to challenge families to raise the next generation of missionaries. We have a shortage of missionaries around the world, and we have the greatest news that's ever been proclaimed. If there has ever been a time when it needs to be proclaimed, it's today.  Bob: Yes. Dennis: And I think we just need to be giving our children a vision and a heart for the Great Commission. [Studio] Bob: Yes, and this is a book that can be a tool to help do that. In fact, this is a book that families may want to read together, a chapter at a time, at the dinner table or on vacation this summer. The book is called In the Presence of My Enemies.  22:00 In the ten years since all of this happened, Gracia has had the opportunity to do a revised and updated version of the book that includes information about a trip back to the Philippines—a secret trip that's all in the new version of the book In the Presence of My Enemies. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com if you'd like to request a copy. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner of our website that says, “GO DEEPER.” You'll see a copy of Gracia Burnham's book, In the Presence of My Enemies. Again, the website is: FamilyLifeToday.com. 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Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 1Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 2Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 3FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript  References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Rescued! Guest:                    Gracia Burnham           From the series:   In the Presence of My Enemies (Day 3 of 3)  Bob: Back in 2002, there was a story that made international news—the story of missionaries, Martin and Gracia Burnham, who had been taken hostage by Islamic terrorists in the Philippines. They were being held primarily for money—the terrorists wanted a ransom. Others, who had been taken captive with them, had ultimately been freed because that ransom had been paid. Here is Gracia Burnham. Gracia: My family arranged a ransom. Some of the money came into camp, and there was so much excitement. The leaders of the group called us over, and Martin and I sat down beside them. They said, "There's a ransom been paid for you, but we've decided that it's not enough."  They said, "We're going to ask for more." I begged them not to do that—I told them: "This is not going to end well. Please don't do this." 1:00 Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, July 3rd. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. Gracia Burnham had no idea how prophetic her words to her captors were. We'll hear today about the concluding days of her captivity. Stay tuned. And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us on the Friday edition. Back in 2002/2003, many of us were praying for a husband and wife who had been captured by Islamic militants. They were being held for ransom somewhere in the Philippines. We had heard about this capture—we were praying for Martin and Gracia Burnham.  And then the news came that there had been a rescue attempt.   2:00 I remember it was in USA Today—it made national news—as U.S. forces, together with Philippine forces, attempted to rescue the hostages being held by these Islamic militants. It was not long after that rescue attempt that we had the opportunity to sit down with Gracia Burnham, who had shared the story of her captivity and the rescue in the book she'd written called In the Presence of My Enemies. That conversation is just as compelling, today, as it was back when it just happened, more than a decade ago. This week, we have been listening back to our interview as Gracia Burnham shared her story of the capture and the rescue attempt that happened back in 2003. [Previously Recorded Interview] Dennis: Gracia, welcome back to FamilyLife Today. Gracia: Thank you very much.  Dennis: She has written a book called In the Presence of My Enemies. Gracia, I remember that news report Bob's talking about.  3:00 In fact, I can still remember where I was standing in my kitchen, looking at you on TV, hearing you plead for someone to pay the ransom for you to get out. I remember weeping with you—I thought, "Here is a sister in Christ, and a brother." You know, we had no idea the conditions you were living under, obviously. Bob: You had been taken captive by a terrorist group in the Philippines—a group with ties to al-Qaeda. They had captured you, along with 17 other people for the purpose of funding their operation. This is kind of their annual fundraising drive—is to take hostages and get the payoff. In your case, there wasn't going to be a payoff. Tell us about the videotape that Dennis saw. What were the conditions that led to that being shown on television? 4:00 Gracia: Oh my. Well, one morning, out of the clear blue, we were in a camp. It must not have been too far from civilization because there had been people come in and out of camp—just civilians—bringing notes and stuff like that. They came to us one morning and said: "There is a television reporter here to interview you. This is your chance to make a plea.” Then Abu Sabaya—one of the head guys—turned to me and said, "Gracia, if you could cry or something—that would help."  I looked at him and I said, "Sabaya, how many days of this captivity have you not seen me crying?"  [Laughter] And he said, "Oh, yes, that's going to be no problem for you." Bob: You'd been captive now for six, seven, eight months? Gracia: Yes, seven months, I think. Bob: All the other hostages, with the exception of one other woman— Gracia: —they were gone. 5:00 Bob:   So it was you, and Martin, and this other woman. The funding sources had dried up. This reporter was there to try to help them finish up their fund drive, basically. Gracia: Yes, and we were out of money. A lot of the other leaders had gotten tired of the whole thing and gone home—and taken the money with them—so, we were on our own. We were depending on supporters of the Abu Sayyaf in different villages to feed us. We were going from farm to farm, eating unripe fruit—just whatever we could find.  Bob:   It's hard to imagine a scenario where a television reporter can come in and videotape something; and yet the Filipino government, which had been trying to affect a rescue, couldn't come in and rescue you guys.  Gracia: That is hard to understand, except when you've been in the jungle. You can be several hundred feet from something and not see it for the foliage and everything. I remember—one day, we could hear the military over on the next ridge; but there was no way they could see us or we could see them.  6:00 It's just dense jungle—so it's not that difficult—maybe if their intelligence had been a bit better, they could have found us—but just by sight, trying to find us the way they were finding us, it was going to be a chance thing. Dennis: You mentioned earlier that in order to feed the number of captives, along with your captors, it took a lot of food. They actually killed civilians to be able to provide food for you. Gracia: Yes. There was one day they had us rest in this—kind of a logging area. A group of guys went off. As the day wore on and we sat there, I started to wonder. Then I heard gunfire not very far away. This group came back, and all of them were carrying food—you know, sacks of rice, and treats, and stuff.  7:00 As we got out of there, we started to hear the story—they had waited by the road until a jeepney came along that had just been to the marketplace. They were going to get the food from the jeepney, but someone had a gun on the jeepney and had pointed the gun. They didn't use rifles to shoot that guy—they used machine guns—and just mowed everybody down. It was a massacre. Dennis: It killed like eight civilians. Gracia: Yes. It ended up that some of those civilians—they were Muslims, and some of them were relatives of these guys who had killed them—but you know, they just kind of shrugged their shoulders and said, “That was their destiny.”  8:00 That was always their answer if they killed someone else—“It was their destiny,”— but if anyone ever killed a Muslim, that was an atrocity. I never quite understood how— Bob: Yes, how one works one way— Gracia: Yes, one's an atrocity and one's a destiny. Bob: What were you and Martin thinking, at this point, would be the end game?  I mean—here it's been weeks now—did you figure: “These guys are going to get tired and go home, and we're going to just be released”?  What did you think? Gracia: You know, by then, we didn't know what to think—it had gone on for so long. We just kept asking the Lord to deliver us. It seemed like God would answer every prayer but for us to go home. You know, there would be days we would say, "God, could You just do something really special for us to show us that You still love us?"  Something freaky would happen—like a Coke would come into camp. The other guys wouldn't take it—they'd give it to us—you know, just a gift from God. That happened so many times.  9:00 One day, I told Martin, "Okay, I'm going to start praying for a hamburger because that means, if I get a hamburger, I'm outta here."  And Martin would look at me, with a twinkle in his eye, and say, "Have you prayed for your hamburger today?" You know, right about Easter time, a ransom was paid for us. My family arranged a ransom, and some of the money came into camp. There was so much excitement, and the leaders of the group called us over. Martin and I sat down beside them; and they said, "There is a ransom been paid for you, but we've decided that it's not enough." I begged them not to do that. They said, "We're going to ask for more."  I told them: "This is not going to end well. Please don't do this."  But they hardened their hearts—and they were greedy and asked for more money—but there was money then.  10:00 They hired a fishing vessel to get us off the island we'd been on—Basilan, which by this time, was overrun with soldiers. We were running all the time. They took us to another island. For less than 24 hours, we were in a little fishing village near a city. Someone went into the city to their version of McDonald's®—Jollibee® they called it—and brought Martin and me a hamburger, French fries, and a Coke. It's like God took a baseball bat and hit me over the head and said: "Can't I provide a hamburger for you in the jungle?  Couldn't I get you out of here if I wanted to get you out of here?" 11:00 I think it's then that Martin and I started thinking neither of us was going to get out of the jungle. Our prayers started to change. Our prayer—of course, we always asked God to get us out of there—but our prayers were more focused on, "Lord, would You please teach us what You have to teach us, right now, and help us to be good learners so You can get some glory?" He started to do it—I know it was Him because I had tried and couldn't bring that up, but the Lord put that in me.  Dennis: You didn't have a Bible. Gracia: No. Dennis: There was no access to the Scripture. Gracia: There was nothing—it was what we had in our hearts—and we realized how little we knew. Dennis: All of us have experienced, Gracia, the—well, a prayer that goes unanswered; or a prayer where God says, "No"; or he says, "Wait."  As I was reading your book, I kept thinking, "What must she have been thinking as this ordeal continued on, and on, and on?"   12:00 And you prayed—you prayed on the boat, you prayed on the island, you prayed on the second island / you were being chased. What keeps a person from losing hope in those circumstances? Gracia: I don't know—I remember one of my hardest days—we had prayed with the young girls that weren't married because, one by one, the leaders of the Abu Sayyaf—they would "sabaya" them—that's the word they used. Sabaya means you become their booty of war. One guy would pick one girl, and she would have to live with him—you know, share his hammock and sleep with him. We would pray with these girls, and we would beg God to not let that happen. One by one, that happened. I thought, "How can this be God's plan for these girls?" And you know what?  I guess I don't have any answers.  13:00 I know some things from my experience [emotion in voice]—I know that God will not test you above what you are able. He will, with the testing, make a way to escape, that you can bear it [1 Cor. 10:13]. I chose to believe that God was not going to bring anything our way that we could not bear. The other thing I decided was true is that God is good. I may not feel, right now—like God is good—but He is [Ps. 100:5]. My feelings don't matter. I don't have a lot of answers about unanswered prayer. You know, I haven't become a real theological person through this; but I have become a trusting person—and I'm clinging to what's true. 14:00 Dennis: But the thing I don't want our listeners to miss—you did not lose hope. You may have had a lot of prayers that seemingly went unanswered, or the door was slammed shut, but you never stopped praying. Gracia: No, that's all we had to cling to—was our faith in God—we had nothing else. When you have nothing, you have nothing—but when you have the Lord, you have everything, on the other hand—He was our everything. Bob: Take us to the final night. Gracia: Yes; we had gone nine days without food. I didn't know you could go nine days without food—I thought you go three days, and then you drop dead—but you don't. We had salt, and we had water. The guys knew which leaves we could— Bob: You had to weigh 80 pounds? Gracia: Yes, I definitely didn't have much fat on my body—I'll tell you that. We were skin and bones.  15:00 We were looking for the elusive village—the village where there was—the second ransom was there. They were going to turn us over to civilians, and this was all going to be over; but we were actually kind of lost. Our guide didn't exactly know where we were. We came to some logging roads—in that area of the Philippines, they plow out these roads so these big vehicles can drag logs out of the mountains.  One night, we were going to cross a logging road to get to this village that we thought was over there. I said to my guard: “Could you go tell them not to cross this road? I don't have a good feeling about this. Someone's going to see our tracks and follow us.” Of course, they didn't pay any attention to me. As the sun went down, and no one could see us, we crossed the road—hiked all night.  16:00 There were three kinds of rules with this war: one was we never fought in the rain. We never fought after dark; and they never pursued us—we would have our gun battle—then we would go our way, and they would go theirs.  Well, it clouded up to rain that day. We put our hammocks up, and we put our little plastic shelters over the hammocks to keep the rain off. We laid down for a rest. We didn't know that that morning they'd seen our footprints and had been following us all day. The soldiers came over the hill and opened fire on our camp.  There was no selective gunfire—there never had been before. This was gun battle number 17. I knew what to do right away—I dropped—but even before I got to the ground, I'd been shot in the leg. There was enough rain already that I kind of just slid down the hill and came to rest beside Martin.  17:00 I looked over at him, and he was bleeding from his chest. I knew from experience that leg wounds heal, but chest wounds don't. Dennis: You didn't have any words with him, then? Gracia: No, I didn't say anything to him. Bob:   The two of you had had a conversation—what?—the night before? —as you'd gone to sleep? Gracia: No, just minutes before. When we were sitting down in our hammock to have our rest, Martin had said to me: "Gracia, I don't know why this has happened to us; but Psalm 100 has been just running through my head all day, especially the verse that says, 'Serve the Lord with gladness.'"  He said, "This may not seem like serving the Lord, but let's just choose to serve Him with gladness."  Those are the last words he ever said.  18:00 Well, we prayed together and lay down.  Well, when I didn't hear the languages of the Abu Sayyaf coming from the river, I started moving my hands just very slowly so someone would know I was alive. I didn't want them to be startled and shoot me. Some soldiers saw me right away and came down the hill and started dragging me up to the ridge. As they drug me up the hill, I looked back at Martin. He was white, and that's when I knew he was dead; but, you know, the Lord gave me real grace right then [emotion in voice]. We had been praying that we would get out of there. To be quite honest, we didn't care how anymore—we had just had it.  19:00 Right in that moment, I thought: "This is God's answer. Martin is with Him, and they're going to take care of me."  I just had a real peace. You know what?  That peace has never left me. I have a real peace in my heart that this is God's plan—and it is not how I would have planned it. I would never have had this hostage-thing happen in the first place. I certainly wouldn't have had it go on for a year, and I certainly wouldn't have chosen Martin to die; but you know what?  God is God. I'm not the one that does the choosing—He is the One that does the choosing. I trust Him, and I trust that He is good. Dennis: Gracia, you had one last assignment, however, that would be difficult. That was the assignment of sharing with your children in the Embassy. 20:00 Gracia: Yes, they fixed up my leg and flew me to Manila. I was in the Embassy, and I wanted my children to hear from me what had happened to their dad. I didn't want them to turn on the TV and see the media version. I called the kids, and they had a speakerphone. I just told them the story I had told you. I wondered how they would take that. You know, I could hear the sniffling on the other end, and I could tell they were crying; but right away, I just sensed that God took care of my kids too.  After I was done talking about Martin, they started asking me questions: "Well, how are you?"  I told them I was fine, and everybody was being so kind to me.   21:00 And then my daughter said: "Mom, are you going to have a nervous breakdown?  Because everybody here thinks you are."  I said: "Oh, honey, I had my nervous breakdowns in the jungle. I am through with those, and things are going to be fine now."  And then she said, "Are you going to make us move from here?" You know, it's like the kids were already thinking through how life was going to be, and we had a good conversation. We have had a lot of good conversations, and it's like the Lord is just upholding my children. You know, I think God brought me home for my kids. I don't think God brought me home to do a book tour and to have some great message. I think God brought me home to raise some godly children, and that's my goal. If—I don't care what my children do—if they are godly, and they are following the Lord, then oh my—what more could you ask? 22:00 Dennis: That's right, and we can say we have not lived in vain nor fought in vain. Gracia: Yes, isn't that great? Dennis: Well, Gracia, I want to thank you for being on FamilyLife Today. I want to thank you for sharing your life, not only in this book, but with us over the past couple of days. I have the feeling you have helped some moms and dads, some husbands and wives, and single people. I think they've maybe drunk from a spiritual fire hydrant, Bob. [Laughter] Bob: I'm just thinking: “Problems? I've got no problems!” Dennis: “I haven't got any problems!” I have one last question for you, though, before we let you go.  [Studio] Bob: Let me interrupt you long enough to let our listeners know how they can get a copy of Gracia's book before you ask your last question. The book that Gracia has written is called In The Presence of My Enemies. This was a New York Times best-seller when it came out. We have the book in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center. You can order from us when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to request the book.  23:00 Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com. When you get there, click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, “GO DEEPER.” You'll see Gracia's book there. Or call 1-800-358-6329—that's 1-800-“F” as in family, “L” as in life, and then, the word, “TODAY.”  Dennis? [Previously Recorded Interview] Dennis: Well, I'm grateful you've shared with our listeners how you can get a copy of this book. I do hope they will read In the Presence of My Enemies to their children. I think we need to raise a generation of young people who have God's heart for the world.  I promised you, Gracia, I had one last question for you: “Will you go back?” Gracia: Well, I would love to go back, and the kids would love to go back; but we're New Tribes Mission missionaries. I was a good pilot's wife, and there is no pilot anymore. I think my ministry—I would want to be in a tribe somewhere, which would mean learning a new language / learning a new culture. So, I would love to go back. 24:00 If God really laid it on our hearts, we would be back there in a minute—the children were born there. When they had to pack their bag that day and get out of the Philippines, they were ripped from their home; and they would love to go back. Dennis: Well, Gracia Burnham, you may have cried your way through the jungle, as you wrote about in your book, and felt like you had your nervous breakdown in the jungle, but you are exactly who I thought you would be. As I told Bob—I said, "I believe she is one gritty warrior for Christ."  You are a warrior for Christ, and I want to thank you for being on FamilyLife Today. Gracia: Thank you. It's been my pleasure. FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.  We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you've benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider donating today to help defray the costs?   Copyright © 2015 FamilyLife. All rights reserved. www.FamilyLife.com    

Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 1Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 2Captured For Ransom in the Philippines - Part 3FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript  References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Love Finds a Way to the Philippines Guest:                         Gracia BurnhamFrom the series:       In the Presence of My Enemies (Day 1 of 3)  Bob: Martin and Gracia Burnham had served for years as missionaries in the Philippines. Back in 2002, they got away for a few days of rest and recuperation when, one morning, the door of the cabin where they were staying was kicked in. Gracia: We knew that we were in big trouble, and we knew that we were being kidnapped; but we didn't know by whom. And then, when we realized it was the Abu Sayyaf, we knew what was going to happen because everyone follows all those hostage situations. It's like one starts, and then it ends. Everybody breathes easy for a bit. Then another one starts, and another one ends; and here it was us in the middle of this. Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, July 1st. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. We'll hear from Gracia Burnham today about the events that led up to the kidnapping and the 12-month hostage ordeal that she and her husband went through. Stay with us. 1:00 And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us on the Wednesday edition. It was back more than a decade ago that we had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Gracia Burnham. Together, with her husband, Martin, Gracia had been held captive for more than a year by Islamic terrorists in the Philippines. Her story had been followed by the American media. It was a powerful, compelling story and a story of God's grace and His very real presence in the midst of suffering. We thought it would be good to revisit that story and listen back to what stands out for us as one of the most compelling programs we've featured on FamilyLife Today in our 20-plus years of ministry.  2:00Here is Part One of our interview with Gracia Burnham, originally recorded in 2003. [Previously Recorded Interview] Dennis: We are going to feature a story over the next couple of days, Bob, that, personally, I've been looking forward to hearing the rest of the story. I don't know that I've ever heard of a couple getting away for a romantic weekend that was interrupted in such a dramatic way. I mean, picture yourself in full-time ministry overseas and needing a break. Now, that occurs in missionary staff, and they need to get a break. So this couple decided that they would find a cool spot. They found a cool spot and were sleeping when there was a [knocking sound] at the door. 3:00 And the rest of the story is—man! It's a story of faith, of courage, of suffering that—well, I was riveted by the book, In the Presence of My Enemies, written by Gracia Burnham. And Gracia joins us on FamilyLife Today. Gracia: Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Dennis: Gracia, I really have been looking forward to meeting you. Barbara watched me read your book; and she said, "That must really be good!" Bob: A page-turner? Dennis: It is. Gracia and her husband Martin served with New Tribes Missions for more than 17 years.  Gracia: Yes. Dennis: They have three children. I want you to tell us about that romantic getaway. You really needed it; didn't you? Gracia: Well, yes. New Tribes Mission Aviation—Martin was a jungle pilot—had been after Martin to become their new chief pilot from the Philippines. He'd just been in the States two weeks.  4:00 The Palawan pilot's dad died. That pilot had to go home to the States for a funeral, which meant that there were Bible translators that needed to get from one village to another; and there were kids that needed to get home from Faith Academy—there was a busy flight schedule on Palawan. Martin called me from the States and said: "I'm not going to be able to come home. I'm going to have to go to Palawan and fly."   So, I cleared up my schedule and went to meet him in Palawan. I got someone to take care of the kids where we live, but I knew that he would have jet lag and would need some time to rest. Bob: Right. Gracia: So I called our co-workers on Palawan and said, "Where is a good place where we can go for, you know, just even 24 hours, so Martin can rest, and sleep, and get ready for a heavy flight schedule?" They told me about Dos Palmas, a resort that was an island all of its own, off the coast of Palawan.  5:00 To get there, you had to take kind of a fishing vessel. I told my friends to book us in, and then they told me the price. It was right on the tip of my tongue to say, "Oh, could you just find us a place in town?" And I didn't say it because our anniversary was coming up; and I justified the cost by saying, “This will be our anniversary treat.”  And we did. We went to Dos Palmas and had a wonderful time—a beautiful meal / it was really, really nice—and went to bed that night. Then, even before dawn the next morning, that knock on the door—the pounding on the door—woke us up. Three men with M-16s ran into the room and took Martin immediately out. Then a guy came over to me, and pointed his weapon at me, and said in English, "Go, go, go!"   6:00 I said: “No, no, no! I don't have clothes on.” I was just trying to grab something right there by the bed. I grabbed what I'd had on at the beach the night before—just shorts and a t-shirt. They took me right out the door. They emptied all the little cottages that we were staying in that were on stilts over the water. When they emptied all those out, there were 20 of us hostages—3 Americans and the rest were Filipinos. As we pulled away from the dock, they raised their weapons in the air. I guess there were about 15 of these guys. We knew, right away, it was the Abu Sayyaf. They're a Muslim terrorist organization which funds itself by kidnapping and ransom. Dennis: Yes. Gracia: But they'd never been known to be on Palawan.  7:00 We always avoided the hot spots in the Philippines. For some reason, the Abu Sayyaf chose Palawan and Dos Palmas. Bob: So, was it not until that moment on the boat, with the guns raised, that you knew who these people were and what the agenda was? Gracia: Yes, that's when we knew who they were. Bob: Prior to that, when somebody is in your bedroom with a gun pointed at you, what are you thinking? Gracia: Well, we knew we were in big trouble. We knew that we were being kidnapped, but we didn't know by whom. Then, when we realized it was the Abu Sayyaf, we knew what was going to happen because we read the newspapers. A year before, they had taken a bunch of European business people from an island down closer to Malaysia, and everyone follows all those hostage situations. It's like one starts, and then it ends; and here it was us in the middle of this. 8:00 Dennis: Let's leave the speedboat for a moment, and let's go back to when you and Martin met—all the way back to the beginning of your relationship.  Gracia: Yes. Dennis: You both were really missions-minded from the very beginning; weren't you? Gracia: Yes, we were. Martin grew up on the mission field. His parents are tribal missionaries. When Martin was a little boy, they moved their family to the Philippines and started working with the Ibaloi tribe—a tribe up in the mountains, where there are no roads. To reach those people, they built a small airstrip. That's how they would get their supplies—a pilot in a bush plane would bring their supplies, and their medicines, and stuff to them.Dennis: Martin grew up with that? Gracia: Martin grew up there. He went off to boarding school at Faith Academy, which was a very common thing to do back then—people didn't really home school back then. 9:00 Dennis: Yes. Gracia: When he graduated from high school, he went to Calvary Bible College in Kansas City. That's where I met him. I was a Calvary student, and we got to know each other. I liked Martin because he was different. A lot of the guys I knew—you know, they really cared about how they looked and had to be—we didn't us the word, "preppy," back then, but they were—you could tell they were just trying their best to be preppy. [Laughter] Well, Martin truly wasn't. He loved jeans, and flannel shirts, and cowboy boots. He was just himself, and I just really liked that. We got to know each other and— Dennis: It started out as a friendship. Gracia: Yes; yes, for sure. Dennis: And then when did he ask you out?  Gracia: Ha! Dennis: When it really became a relationship—you became an item for him. Gracia: Well, I broke up with this guy—you know the story—my heart was broken.  10:00 I had just broken up with this guy and thought: “You know, I will never date again. That's it—my life is ruined."  And the very next day, Martin walked into the Dean's office, where I was the Dean of Students' secretary, and asked me if I wanted to go to the fall concert, of all things. Well, I decided to say, “Yes.” Dennis: Your broken heart was not healed, but— Bob: A little salve on it pretty quick. [Laughter]  Did you, prior to knowing Martin, did you have a missions' orientation? Gracia: Oh, I did. My favorite books were the books about Amy Carmichael and Mary Slessor—you know, who went into tribes in Africa and told the chief off. Those were my heroes. [Laughter] I always had a heart for missions. 11:00 Bob: So, your friendship with Martin, which was beginning to grow and increase / his friendship with you, growing and increasing—both of you with a heart for the field—there had to be conversations, in those early days, about where you thought you were both headed in service to the Lord. Gracia: Yes, I'm sure there were. I just really fell in love with him, truly. I was thrilled that he was going to be a missionary; but if he had chosen to be an airline pilot, I would have been happy with that because I just wanted to be with him—if that makes any sense. Dennis: And you were married. Gracia: Yes. Dennis: And how long, then, before you headed off on your overseas adventure? Gracia: We crop-dusted for one summer in Nebraska so he could get some real good training for the mission field. Then we, right after that, we went into New Tribes Mission training; and their training is quite extensive.  12:00 You go to—they call it Missions Institute now—it used to be called Boot Camp. You go for a year of Boot Camp just to see if you can live in Spartan conditions—I guess is what you would call it.  Bob: Well, I have to imagine a young bride at Boot Camp.  Gracia: Oh, my goodness! Yes! [Laughter] Bob: You know—part of the romance of being married—you can think about: “The mission field will be exciting. It will be fun,” but about the 40th time you're carrying the slop water up the hill, did you have some doubts? Did you think, "Couldn't we serve the Lord in some other capacity?" Gracia: I had doubts about whether I could do it. There were several girls in my shoes—who had just gotten married and gone off to Boot Camp—and, you know, it came time to cook. I didn't know, really, how to cook yet. I remember buying a chicken—you know, if you buy a whole chicken, it's cheaper. I got the chicken home, and I didn't know how to cut it up.  Bob: Yes. Gracia: So, you know, I had to go to the neighbor and say, "Could you teach me how to cut up a chicken?"  13:00 How good that was—you know, on the mission field, you end up catching your chicken, and plucking your chicken, and cutting up your chicken. [Laughter] So, you have to learn someday. Bob: But there was never any thought of "I don't know that I want to live for the next 10 years / 15 years in conditions like we're simulating here at Boot Camp"? Gracia: No, no, I was happy to do that. Bob: I mean, you're not talking about, “What kind of wallpaper do you want in the kitchen?” Gracia: No, oh, my goodness. Bob: You know, and a lot of young ladies grow up dreaming of that domestic life. Gracia: Yes; well, you know what? I really loved Martin. It might not make a whole lot of sense, but I was happy to do anything God had called him to do. Maybe I wasn't going to have that little house, with the white picket fence; but life was going to be good because I would be with him, and I would be doing what God had called us to do. 14:00Dennis: You then went to the Philippines, and Martin began to fly. And the reason I wanted to say that is—I want to read a paragraph from your book that struck me because it gives us a glimpse into the character of the man you married. You write:  "Before long, Martin knew everything about every missionary. He knew who was struggling financially; he knew which husbands and wives weren't getting along; he knew who was discouraged with language study because they weren't catching on as fast as they had hoped; he saw the newborn babies; he got to congratulate missionary kids on their home school projects; he met villagers who had recently become believers. Martin was the perfect person to hear it all. He just had a heart for everyone he came in contact with, and everyone who knew him loved him.” He was more than a pilot!  Gracia: Yes. Dennis: I really like that because, you know, we think sometimes that a pilot for New Tribes Mission is just going to be on a task—flying supplies in / flying people in and out. Gracia: Yes. 15:00 Dennis: And yet he took an interest in the people he served. Gracia: Yes. You know, Martin used to say: “We didn't think of ourselves as the ‘real missionaries.'  In our minds, the real missionaries were the people in the tribe—learning the language, doing literacy, doing medical, learning a new culture, planting churches, doing Bible translation. We were just there to keep the tribal missionary in the tribe—that was our goal.” Dennis: In the midst of all these flights, in and out, God was growing your faith at the same time. In fact, there's a story you tell about a time when you were moved to pray for Martin during one of these trips. Gracia: Yes. That was one year just before Christmas. I think it was his last flight before Christmas break.  16:00 It was kind of an unusual flight for us because it was a businessman who wanted a flight to Davao. Martin took him and our buyer. The buyer is the person who buys everything for these eight to ten families that you service out in the jungle—he just buys, all day long, and boxes things up and makes sure they're in the hangar on the right day.  Martin was about ten minutes into his flight; and he called me and he said, "We have a problem here.” Then there was silence. I waited and nothing happened for a minute. I called him back and said, “Are you going to tell me what your problem is?” And he said: “I'm losing oil pressure. Something's wrong here. I'm above the clouds—so I don't know what's below us." A few minutes later, he called and said, "I've turned the engine off because we were pumping oil overboard.”  17:00 Before the engine seized on its own, he turned it off. He had just broken through the clouds, and he could see the valley below him. Well, now, he was just gliding into the valley. Bob: And our listeners need to understand that, when you turn off the engine on a plane, you don't just go into a nose dive—you glide for a while. Gracia: You glide; yes. Bob: So he was able to control the plane and keep it flying—  Gracia: Yes. Bob: —even though the engine was off. Gracia: Yes. We have an interesting photo—the buyer took a photo of the stopped propeller. It was so quiet in the cockpit and, especially, that businessman was very quiet. They started gliding into the valley, and Martin started looking. There was an SIL Wycliffe Bible Translators' Center down in that valley.  18:00 Martin said, "I'm going to try to make it to the SIL base"; and he did. He said he cleared their fence by about 50 feet—he said—and came to a dead-stick landing. He had called them ahead to tell them about the emergency. They said they had a hallelujah meeting when he got on the ground. [Laughter] Bob: I bet his wife, on the other end of the radio, was having a hallelujah meetin'. Gracia: She was. Oh, Martin!—you know, he always had a sense of humor. That day, when he came home—you know, it could have been a dramatic: “Oh! I was so worried about you!” He walked in the gate. He looked at me, with this twinkle in his eye—he glanced at his watch—and he said, “I told you I'd be home by 10:00.” You know, it was just— Bob: —just another day. [Laughter] Gracia: That's how he was—he just always saw the good. Bob: But didn't you, in the back of your mind, after moments like that, think, "We've done enough here"? 19:00                                                                               Gracia: No, I never thought that. In fact, that was the best Christmas we ever had because we were enjoying each other so much. We knew that things could have happened much differently, and we had the most wonderful Christmas. No, we never talked about not doing that again. We loved what we were doing. Bob: But the next time—he might not have made it to the base. Gracia: That's true. Bob: And that's just part of how you live. Gracia: These things happen, I guess; huh? Those things happen in America—you can go off to work, and you have no guarantee that you're going to come home at night. Dennis: Yes, the folks— Gracia: You just forget— Dennis: —on September 11th—you know, the same thing— Gracia: That's right. Dennis: —God has a plan for us.  Gracia: Yes. Dennis: We just live under the illusion thinking we're in control. We're really not in control.  20:00 And you're going to hear a dramatic story, over the next couple of days, that, if you were in the middle of that story—as I had to put myself and my wife Barbara—and I had to think, "How would I have translated what was happening?" It was such insanity to think of being captured and kidnapped by a terrorist group and to watch the conditions under which Gracia and her husband lived for more than a year.  Today, there are people listening to us who are living in circumstances—that may not be in a jungle spot in the Philippines—but they are in a jungle of their own. The God of the universe wants to reach out to you and let you know He wants to take the insanity and make sense of it. He wants to teach you to trust Him. Jesus Christ is alive from the dead. It's not a myth / it's not a story that somebody made up—He's here—He's alive / He can guide you even through the darkest moment. 21:00 [Studio] Bob: I think about the hundreds of thousands—really, millions of people who heard a testimony of your faithfulness back when this happened in 2002. In the years since then, Gracia has written a book called In the Presence of my Enemies. It was a New York Times best-seller that sold more than 350,000 copies.  In fact, you have—since the book was published, you have gone back and revised it, and updated it, and included information in the book about a return trip to the Philippines that you have taken since all of this happened. We've got copies of the updated version of the book, In the Presence of my Enemies, in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center.  If our listeners are interested, they can go, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com to request a copy. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, “GO DEEPER.”  22:00 You'll see information about Gracia's book right there. You can order it from us, online; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to place your order. Again, FamilyLifeToday.com is the website. The toll-free number is 1-800-358-6329. The title of the book is In the Presence of my Enemies, written by our guest today, Gracia Burnham. You know, I think one of the things that Gracia's story illustrates is the importance of us having a firm foundation, spiritually, in our lives because none of us knows what's around the corner. None of us knows what's coming tomorrow for us—what events / what circumstances we may have to face. The time to pour a solid spiritual foundation in your life is not when the storms are coming—it's before they come so that, when the storms come, you can stand firm and find your hope and your strength in Christ. 23:00 We're committed, here at FamilyLife, to helping you with that. Our goal is to provide practical biblical help for your marriage and your family, day-in and day-out. We want to effectively develop godly families who change the world, one home at a time. And we're grateful that there are listeners, like you, who share that burden and who have joined with us in this ministry as financial supporters. We're listener-supported. More than 65 percent of the funding that we need to operate this ministry comes from people making donations—either as monthly Legacy Partners or as folks who contribute, from time to time, in support of the ministry. In fact, if you'd like to make a donation right now, it's easy to do. You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen that says, “I CARE,” and make an online donation. Or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make your donation over the phone.  24:00 Or you can mail your donation to us at FamilyLife Today, PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR. Our zip code is 72223.  Now, tomorrow, we're going to hear more about the 12-month ordeal as Martin and Gracia Burnham were in captivity, held by Islamic terrorists in the Philippines. We'll hear more of that story tomorrow. I hope you can tune in for that. I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of FamilyLife Today FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.  We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you've benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider donating today to help defray the costs?   Copyright © 2015 FamilyLife. All rights reserved. www.FamilyLife.com    

War Brief: In the Philippines, an Abu Sayyaf leader, 2 others surrender in Basilan and more

Monday, January 21, 2019 Israel hits Syria, and Hindus celebrate Thaipusam. This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Monday, January 21st. Israel carries out air strikes on Iranian targets in Syria Israel says it's hit Iranian targets in Syria in strikes over Sunday into Monday. Russia's military says regime air defences intercepted 30 missiles in the attack. A war monitor said at least 11 people died in the assault. Erdogan tells Trump Turkey ready to take over Manbij President Erdogan has told his US counterpart that Turkey is ready to take over security in Syria's Manbij. Erdogan spoke to Trump by phone on Sunday. They agreed to work together to clear Daesh's remnants in Syria. Erdogan also said Turkey will not allow the PKK and its Syrian affiliate the PYD/YPG to destabilise the northeast of its southern neighbour. Philippines’ Mindanao votes in autonomy referendum A region in the southern Philippines is voting for autonomy. The referendum could end decades of bloodshed and give the country's minority Muslims a greater say over their affairs. A 'yes' vote is expected to set up the Bangsomoro region in Mindanao, home to most of the country's Muslims. Manila agreed the referendum with the largest rebel group in the region, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in a bid to prevent in-roads into the relatively poor region by terror groups like Daesh and Abu Sayyaf. Oxfam says world wealth gap widening Anti-poverty campaigner Oxfam is warning that the wealth gap between rich and poor is “out of control” and doing particular harm to women. Oxfam released its latest report today, ahead of this week's Davos, the annual gathering of some of the world's richest people. Oxfam said another new billionaire is created every two days. Meanwhile, every day, the poorest half of the planet, 3.8 billion people, lose another $500 million. Hindus celebrate Thaipusam And finally, Hindu devotees of Murugan, or Lord Muruga, have been piercing themselves with rods, needles and hooks in an annual religious ritual of thanksgiving and atonement. The festival is known as Thaipusam. It's celebrated during the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (January/February), which this year is today. Devotees ask Murugan, son of Lord Shiva, for forgiveness, good health and peace in the new year. And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

For most Americans, the deadly attacks by Ansar al-Sharia on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi were their first exposure to anything relating to the CIA's Protective Operations Cadre. CIA Officer Thomas Pecora, however, was there during it's inception. With an incredibly impressive resume, he's been involved in Mogadishu, the resurgence of Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. We discuss the span of his career which will be covered in much greater detail when his book "Guardian: Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror" hits shelves on May 7th of next year. We highly recommend you pre-order what is sure to be a book breaking new ground in areas never written about prior to now. Beyond this exclusive in-depth interview, we discuss propaganda coming out of China, a tragic military death in Bahrain, and Marine combat veteran and Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. now facing charges in misusing $250K in campaign funds. All that and more on Episode 410! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Retired agent Mark Thundercloud served in the FBI for nearly 28 years. Early in his career, he was trained as a crisis negotiator and was eventually promoted to the FBI Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG), in the Crisis Negotiation Unit. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Mark Thundercloud reviews  the case of an American mother and son, Gerfa and Kevin Lunsmann, kidnapped by terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf while visiting relatives in the Philippines. Thundercloud also talks about his role in the rescue from Somali pirates of Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama, a commercial vessel. During his career, Mark Thundercloud responded to major crisis incidents around the world and managed the FBI Crisis Negotiator Program and the approximately 375 Special Agent negotiators throughout the U.S. He also organized many instructional courses and trained hostage/crisis negotiation and suicide intervention to thousands of FBI Agents, domestic and foreign police officers, military, and other personnel throughout the U.S. and the world. Mark Thundercloud personally responded to major incidents in the United States such as the Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho, the Freemen incident in Montana, the Boston Marathon Bombings, and to the Standing Rock, North Dakota oil pipeline conflict. He has also deployed with the FBI Hostage Rescue Team to numerous other arrest and search warrant events. To assist in negotiations of kidnaped Americans and others, Thundercloud deployed to the countries of Afghanistan, Colombia, England, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inside the United States. In 2011, Mark Thundercloud received the FBI Director’s Meritorious Achievement Award for negotiations conducted during a piracy-related hijacking of the near the coast of Somalia.     Join my reader team to get the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies. Join here:  https://us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a3799f1fa1e3202c505b5a45a&id=b1b43cd57d Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, attempts to relive her glory days by writing crime fiction about greed and hosting FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime/history podcast. Her novels—Pay To Play and Greedy Givers—inspired by actual true crime FBI cases, feature temptation, corruption, and redemption, and are available at Amazon.com.   

Guest: Monique Strydom, An award-winning hostage survivor, author, TV presenter, and philanthropist and Founder - Matla a Bana, Voice Against Child Abuse NGOHost: Sara-Jayne King, Late NightsTopic: The Fringe: An award-winning hostage survivor – Monique StrydomIn 2000 my next guest was one of 21 people taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf rebels in the jungle on the Philippine island of Jolo. She was held for 127days, in dire circumstances. Under continuous attack by the military, she and the other hostages had to run for their lives through the unforgiving territory and received very little food and water throughout their ordeal. After being released and returning to South Africa Monique, sold her business and formed a charitable trust and in 2002, Matla A Bana, a non-profit-organisation assisting abused children, was founded. Monique is the recipient of the numerous awards and nominations including Greatest Women of the Century by the American Biographical Institute and after hearing her story it’s easy to see why. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Roy talks to Bonice Thomas and Gord Bibby in an exclusive interview with the family of Robert Hall, the man who was beheaded by the ISIS-affiliated terror group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. Recently, Robert Hall's sister Bonice was flown to Ottawa for meetings with cabinet ministers and senior RCMP officers. She met with Trudeau, as well as Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. Both of them made promises to make changes and improve how they deal with these situations. How well are those commitments being kept? Guests: Bonice Thomas, sister of Robert Hall       Gord Bibby, cousin of Robert Hall (Photo: Family Supplied to Global News) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Roy Green Show Roy talks to Bonice Thomas and Gord Bibby in an exclusive interview with the family of Robert Hall, the man who was beheaded by the ISIS-affiliated terror group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines.   Recently, Robert Hall's sister Bonice was flown to Ottawa for meetings with cabinet ministers and senior RCMP officers. She met with Trudeau, as well as Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. Both of them made promises to make changes and improve how they deal with these situations.   How well are those commitments being kept?   Guests: Bonice Thomas, sister of Robert Hall       Gord Bibby, cousin of Robert Hall - Two years ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to visit the Attawapiskat First Nation, but that visit has yet to happen.   For years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government have promised to offer help improve the living conditions in Canada's First Nations communities, but many find that the efforts that have been delivered on have been underwhelming.   Guest: Bruce Shisheesh, former chief of Attawapiskat - Why is money from American organizations going toward Canadian environmental groups that oppose the building of new pipelines?   Vivian Krause followed the money trail. She joins us to detail who in the U.S. is contributing to Canadian anti-pipeline groups and how this is harming the Canadian economy.   Guest: Vivian Krause, @FairQuestions, wrote on the topic for the Financial Post - Why is gasoline so much more expensive in Canada than gasoline in the U.S.?  Is it just taxes? If so, is it just that Americans would not put up with gasoline taxes the way Canadians seem to?   Guest: Dan McTeague, Principal analyst with GasBuddy.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vandaag op de dag af - precies zes jaar geleden - werd de Nederlandse vogelspotter Ewold Horn gekidnapt op de Filipijnen, door de terreurgroep Abu Sayyaf. Er zijn wel tekenen van leven geweest, maar niemand heeft meer contact met Ewold Horn gehad. Zijn familie en vrienden staan machteloos. Waarom blijft deze gijzeling zo lang duren en zijn we deze ontvoering niet helemaal vergeten?

The family of Robert Hall – a Canadian kidnapped and killed by ISIS-affiliated terror group Abu Sayyaf – continues to call for a public inquiry into the circumstances of Hall's kidnapping and how the Canadian government failed to bring him home. Guests: Bonice Thomas, Robert Hall's sister Gord Bibby, Robert Hall's cousin (Photo: HO via Youtube/The Canadian Press) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Roy Green Show Podcast NFL players and coaches are reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump's call for NFL owners to fire players who kneel during the U.S. national anthem. 34% of football fans have told Rasmussen polling that they're less likely to follow the NFL because of the anthem protests. - A Canadian mom shares how she and her family survived the Mexico City earthquake this week. Guest: Denise Cressman, from Mexico City - As of October 1st, Alberta's pharmacists will begin to quiz chronic pain patients about their opioid medications – and if they feel it's necessary, they'll contact the doctor who prescribed the opioids and question the doctor. Guest: Greg Eberhart, Registrar at the Alberta College of Pharmacists - A panel of guests responds to Roy's interview with the Alberta College of Pharmacists Registrar. Guests: Barry Ulmer, executive director of the Chronic Pain Association of Canada Dawn Rae Downton, chronic pain patient and freelance journalist who has written on the chronic pain and opioid issue nationally Marvin Ross, medical journalist for Huff Post Canada with a primary focus on chronic pain - The Fraser Institute has released a new report on Canada's universal health care system and how it compares to other universal care systems globally. Guest: Bacchus Barua, associate director of Health Policy Studies at the Fraser Institute and author of the report - Noah Irvine is 17. Both of his parents committed suicide. Noah contacted all 338 members of parliament about Canada's suicide rate. Only 40 of them took the time to respond. Guest: Noah Irvine - The family of Robert Hall – a Canadian kidnapped and killed by ISIS-affiliated terror group Abu Sayyaf – continues to call for a public inquiry into the circumstances of Hall's kidnapping and how the Canadian government failed to bring him home. Guests: Bonice Thomas, Robert Hall's sister Gord Bibby, Robert Hall's co See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Roy Green Show Podcast   Has Ontario's PC leader Patrick Brown done enough to become the next Premier of Ontario? Guest:  Patrick Brown, leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative party - What's most likely to happen in the Ontario election next year? Will that provincial election be a precursor to the federal election in 2019? Guest: Quito Maggi, CEO of Mainstreet Research - Refugee claimants and migrants flooding Europe are sexually attacking women and girls in the middle of the day. Dr. Cheryl Benard writes that the perpetrators of these attacks are mostly young Afghan males. Guest: Dr. Cheryl Benard, wrote a piece for nationalinterest.org – "I've Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe's Afghan Crime Wave is Mind-Boggling”   - The EU is putting increasing pressure on Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland to take in refugee claimants. In 2014, the Swiss people voted by referendum to not allow mass migration across Swiss borders. Guest: Luzzi Stamm, multi-decade member of the Swiss parliament and former vice president of the Swiss People's Party - Now that ISIS is being shut down in Syria and Iraq, they're seemingly looking for a foothold in southeast Asia. Reports suggest that a war is being fought between the army in the Philippines and Islamic State affiliate Abu Sayyaf. Guest: Victor Taylor, Filipino national with the McKenzie Institute. He has worked with Philippine Muslim communities for 50 years and assisted in rescue efforts for five hostages of Abu Sayyaf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Now that ISIS is being shut down in Syria and Iraq, they're seemingly looking for a foothold in southeast Asia. Reports suggest that a war is being fought between the army in the Philippines and Islamic State affiliate Abu Sayyaf. Guest: Victor Taylor, Filipino national with the McKenzie Institute. He has worked with Philippine Muslim communities for 50 years and assisted in rescue efforts for five hostages of Abu Sayyaf (Photo: Aaron Favila/AP Photo) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Roy Green Show Podcast   Alberta's two conservative parties have united. The Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose voted 95 per cent in favour of merging the two bodies into the United Conservative Party. Guest: Joe McFarland, News Director at News Talk 770 in Calgary - Alberta's Wildrose party has merged with the province's Progressive Conservative party to form the United Conservative Party. Guest: Brian Jean, Wildrose leader - The Trudeau government plans to legalize marijuana consumption by July of 2018.   Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall argue that legalizing pot should be pushed back to 2019. One of their reasons is that the public must be educated about driving while high on pot. Guest: Ed Wood, founder of DUID Victim Voices. (Driving Under the Influence of Drugs Victim Voices) - Erika is a 44-year-old mother of two from Minnesota who has suffered from chronic pancreatitis for 8 years. Her pain is agonizing and recently, her opioids – which made her stable – were cut back by 50%. Guest: Erika, pain patient who runs advocacy groups on Facebook and knows seven people who have committed suicide this year - Warren Rodwell, an Australian citizen, was kidnapped and held captive by the ISIS-associated terror group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines for 472 days. It is the same terror group that abducted, tortured and beheaded Canadians Robert Hall and John Ridsdel. The Australian government got involved and was able to arrange what turned out to be a $100,000 ransom. Rodwell had never communicated with any member of Robert Hall's or John Ridsdel's families until Roy introduced them to each other. Rodwell accuses Trudeau of "empty chest thumping" over the deaths of the two Canadians. Guests:  Warren Rodwell Dr. Bob East, researcher from Australia and author of “472 Days Captive of the Abu Sayyaf: The Survival of Australian Warren Rodwell” Bonice Thomas, sister of Robert Hall Gord Bibby, cousin of Robert Hall See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Warren Rodwell, an Australian citizen, was kidnapped and held captive by the ISIS-associated terror group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines for 472 days. It is the same terror group that abducted, tortured and beheaded Canadians Robert Hall and John Ridsdel. The Australian government got involved and was able to arrange what turned out to be a $100,000 ransom. Rodwell had never communicated with any member of Robert Hall's or John Ridsdel's families until Roy introduced them to each other. Rodwell accuses Trudeau of "empty chest thumping" over the deaths of the two Canadians. Guests:  Warren Rodwell Dr. Bob East, researcher from Australia and author of “472 Days Captive of the Abu Sayyaf: The Survival of Australian Warren Rodwell” Bonice Thomas, sister of Robert Hall Gord Bibby, cousin of Robert Hall (Photo: Aaron Favila/AP Photo) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Roy Green Show Podcast Yesterday a cousin of Robert Hall sent an email writing she had to cut short her shopping and go home and cry because of the disparity between how Justin Trudeau stood by Omar Khadr, while completely ignoring the families of Robert Hall and John Ridsdel. Both Canadian men were kidnapped, tortured and beheaded by the ISIS-affiliated Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf one year ago. If Khadr deserves $10.5 million for his 'suffering,' what do the families of Mr. Hall and Mr. Ridsdell deserve? An apology from Justin Trudeau? Guests:   Bonice Thomas (sister to Robert Hall) and Gord Bibby (cousin to Robert Hall). Callers - Charlie Gard is the 11 month old U.K. baby making international headlines. Charlie suffers from mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He suffers from brain damage, seizures, paralysis, failing kidneys, unable to breathe without a ventilator and other issues. Doctors at the hospital where Charlie is being kept alive want to disconnect life support. The UK Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights are onside with that decision. The Pope and Donald Trump have intervened and offered medical help. Guest:  Dr. Arthur Caplan. Founding head of Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center in NYC. Column: Charlie Gard will likely die soon. Let's learn from the battle."  - When opioid medications are without any valid reason withheld from a chronic pain patient living in daily agony, it is feared the result increasingly will be suicide. Guests: Tammi and Niki Hale.  Their 53 year old husband/father Doug committed suicide after a horrific experience with the health care system in the U.S. cutting him off previously prescribed opioid medication. - We've been following the case of RCMP civilian employee Atoya Montague who was named by federal Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale as one of the women within the RCMP who have been subjected to sexual harassment/abuse. Atoya's related court case has repeatedly been delayed and she is now virtually bankrupt as she battles the RCMP's decision to fire her. Atoya Montague's psychiatrist diagnosed her with PTSD related to sexual harassment. Guests: Atoya Montague and Dr. Gregg Passey See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday a cousin of Robert Hall sent an email writing she had to cut short her shopping and go home and cry because of the disparity between how Justin Trudeau stood by Omar Khadr, while completely ignoring the families of Robert Hall and John Ridsdel. Both Canadian men were kidnapped, tortured and beheaded by the ISIS-affiliated Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf one year ago. If Khadr deserves $10.5 million for his 'suffering,' what do the families of Mr. Hall and Mr. Ridsdell deserve? An apology from Justin Trudeau? Guests:   Bonice Thomas (sister to Robert Hall) and Gord Bibby (cousin to Robert Hall). Callers Photo: (Jason Franson / THE CANADIAN PRESS) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1-La popolarità dei gruppi dell'estremismo islamico va oltre la religione...Il caso di Mindanao, nelle Filippine. A Esteri una testimonianza da Marawi, dove da un mese un'organizzazione che dice di rifarsi all'ISIS tiene in ostaggio 200mila persone (Mabel Carumba, Mindanao People Peace Movement).2-“Potremmo aver ucciso al-Baghdadi, il leader dello Stato Islamico”. Lo dice il governo russo. Ma non c'è alcuna certezza (Farid Adly).3-Da Tehran a Beirut. Gli sviluppi delle guerre in Siria e in Iraq hanno già un vincitore, l'Iran. Gli Ayatollah hanno quasi un corridoio terrestre fino al Mediterraneo.4-Tanto rumore per nulla. Trump annuncia nuove misure contro Cuba, come promesso in campagna elettorale. Ma nella realtà cambierà ben poco (Alfredo Somoza).5-La violenza sulle donne in Egitto, un problema endemico. La storia del centro donne della ong COSPE alla periferia del Cairo (Gianni Toma, responsabile Medio Oriente COSPE).6-In crisi i rapporti tra Cina e Australia. Nonostante un ricco interscambio commerciale tra i due paesi ci sono molte questioni irrisolte. Lo ha confermato anche il governo di Canberra (Gabriele Battaglia)

1-La popolarità dei gruppi dell'estremismo islamico va oltre la religione...Il caso di Mindanao, nelle Filippine. A Esteri una testimonianza da Marawi, dove da un mese un'organizzazione che dice di rifarsi all'ISIS tiene in ostaggio 200mila persone (Mabel Carumba, Mindanao People Peace Movement).2-“Potremmo aver ucciso al-Baghdadi, il leader dello Stato Islamico”. Lo dice il governo russo. Ma non c'è alcuna certezza (Farid Adly).3-Da Tehran a Beirut. Gli sviluppi delle guerre in Siria e in Iraq hanno già un vincitore, l'Iran. Gli Ayatollah hanno quasi un corridoio terrestre fino al Mediterraneo.4-Tanto rumore per nulla. Trump annuncia nuove misure contro Cuba, come promesso in campagna elettorale. Ma nella realtà cambierà ben poco (Alfredo Somoza).5-La violenza sulle donne in Egitto, un problema endemico. La storia del centro donne della ong COSPE alla periferia del Cairo (Gianni Toma, responsabile Medio Oriente COSPE).6-In crisi i rapporti tra Cina e Australia. Nonostante un ricco interscambio commerciale tra i due paesi ci sono molte questioni irrisolte. Lo ha confermato anche il governo di Canberra (Gabriele Battaglia)

The Roy Green Show Podcast A pain specialist in the United States read Roy's blog and heard his interview with Federal Minister of Health Dr. Jane Philpott about chronic pain patients being forced to go without the medication they need to live a normal life. Guest: Dr. Lynn Webster, past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and producer of the documentary “The Painful Truth” - Dawn Rae Downton is a freelance journalist who writes opinion pieces for the Globe & Mail. She's also a chronic pain sufferer who has a severe plan for when she no longer has access to her opioid medication. She wrote a column for the Globe & Mail entitled: “I don't use fentanyl to get high. It lets me live without chronic pain.” Guest: Dawn Rae Downton - Morgan is a 38-year-old woman who has tried all the suggested alternatives to opioids for her chronic pain - Catherine is a successful businesswoman who has been arbitrarily refused specific and needed opioid pain medication by a doctor who has never seen or spoken to her. - Vaden Earle is a Hamilton author & NGO worker in the Dominican Republic. In 2009, he and his wife began the process of adopting a Haitian child. It's now 2017 and the couple is still fighting to bring their daughter home to Canada. Guest: Vaden Earle, www.bringwidlenehome.com - Robert Hall was one of two Canadians kidnapped, tortured and beheaded in the Philippines by Islamist terror group Abu Sayyaf nearly one year ago. E-petition 696, as put forward by the families of Robert Hall and John Ridsdel, is scheduled to be read into the parliamentary record this week. The petition demands the federal government change its methods for dealing with Canadians who are kidnapped. Guests:  Bonice Thomas, sister to Robert Hall Gord Bibby, cousin to Robert Hall See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert Hall was one of two Canadians kidnapped, tortured and beheaded in the Philippines by Islamist terror group Abu Sayyaf nearly one year ago. E-petition 696, as put forward by the families of Robert Hall and John Ridsdel, is scheduled to be read into the parliamentary record this week. The petition demands the federal government change its methods for dealing with Canadians who are kidnapped. Guests:  Bonice Thomas, sister to Robert Hall Gord Bibby, cousin to Robert Hall (Photo: HO via Youtube/The Canadian Press) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1-L'ISIS in estremo oriente. Nel sud delle Filippine un gruppo integralista sta mettendo a ferro e fuoco una città di 200mila abitanti. Gli scontri con l'esercito vanno avanti da una settimana (Gabriele Battaglia).2-Il Kashmir e la tentazione della guerra santa. Le nuove generazioni sempre meno attratte dalla lotta per l'indipendenza dall'India. Al suo posto si fa largo l'integralismo islamico (Camillo Pasquarelli).3-Costretta a sposarsi a 11 anni, con l'uomo che l'ha violentata. È successo in Florida, negli Stati Uniti. In America non è un caso isolato (Adele Alberti).4-È morto Manuel Noriega, l'ex-presidente di Panama. L'uomo di Washington in America Latina era finito in disgrazia dopo quasi dieci anni di dittatura militare (Alfredo Somoza).5-Angela Merkel e l'ultima chance per salvare l'Europea. Il distacco dagli Stati Uniti è un'occasione da non perdere (Alessandro Principe).6-Land grabbing: i Pigmei Baka del Camerun, cacciati dalle foreste dai grandi produttori di legno (Marta Gatti)

1-L'ISIS in estremo oriente. Nel sud delle Filippine un gruppo integralista sta mettendo a ferro e fuoco una città di 200mila abitanti. Gli scontri con l'esercito vanno avanti da una settimana (Gabriele Battaglia).2-Il Kashmir e la tentazione della guerra santa. Le nuove generazioni sempre meno attratte dalla lotta per l'indipendenza dall'India. Al suo posto si fa largo l'integralismo islamico (Camillo Pasquarelli).3-Costretta a sposarsi a 11 anni, con l'uomo che l'ha violentata. È successo in Florida, negli Stati Uniti. In America non è un caso isolato (Adele Alberti).4-È morto Manuel Noriega, l'ex-presidente di Panama. L'uomo di Washington in America Latina era finito in disgrazia dopo quasi dieci anni di dittatura militare (Alfredo Somoza).5-Angela Merkel e l'ultima chance per salvare l'Europea. Il distacco dagli Stati Uniti è un'occasione da non perdere (Alessandro Principe).6-Land grabbing: i Pigmei Baka del Camerun, cacciati dalle foreste dai grandi produttori di legno (Marta Gatti)

The Roy Green Show Podcast   It is decision day for federal Conservatives gathering in Toronto for their leadership convention. Quebec MP Maxime Bernier is the frontrunner in the race. Guest: David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent for Global News - The federal Conservatives come to the end of a long leadership race today, with the reveal of who will take the party forward to the next election. Member of Parliament and CPC leadership candidate Andrew Scheer joins Roy after casting his ballot in the race. Guest: Andrew Scheer - Following the Manchester terror attack, there is a need to examine the spectre of urban and suburban terrorism in an environment where terrorists fit seamlessly into the community they're assaulting. Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht, international terrorism expert, Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University - Canadian Gord Bibby's cousin Robert Hall was beheaded by terror group Abu Sayyaf in Phillipines a year ago. Robert Hall's family accuses the Liberal federal government of indifference toward their murdered family member. Interim CPC leader Rona Ambrose sent a letter to Hall's family, saying the Conservative party doesn't support ransom payment either. Guest: Gord Bibby - Lesley Bikos is working on a nationwide study of Canadian police officers and the impact of police culture on their on and off-duty lives. Atoya Montague also joins Roy to share developments in her battle with the RCMP. Guests: Lesley Bikos, former London, ON police officer and PhD candidate in sociology at Western University Atoya Montague, civilian RCMP member with a sexual harassment/assault case against the RCMP - Roy and the Beauties discuss the Conservative leadership race and more. Guests: Catherine Swift Linda Leatherdale Michelle Simson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Canadian Gord Bibby's cousin Robert Hall was beheaded by terror group Abu Sayyaf in Phillipines a year ago. Robert Hall's family accuses the Liberal federal government of indifference toward their murdered family member. Interim CPC leader Rona Ambrose sent a letter to Hall's family, saying  the Conservative party doesn't support ransom payment either. Guest: Gord Bibby (Photo: HO via Youtube/The Canadian Press) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kim's murderous Communist North Korean regime & Star Wars.* President Ronald Reagan's so-called Star Wars initiative...the intractable Cold War with the murderous Soviet Union (and to a lesser extent with Most Favored Nation bloody Red China). The "Free, Capitalist" Communist Mainland Chinese Regime's 21st century elimination of the CIA's network there via terroristic murder. Hillary's latest ploy, chatting up impeachment of the President. Islamist Terror around the world, via Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines, Hamas in Gaza, ISIS in Manchester, Great Britain. Rough-talking President Rodrigo Duterte's efforts to rid the Philippines of violent crime and Communist and Islamist terrorism and aggression. The Christian exodus from the Middle East, due to Islamist Terror, enabled by the USA and western European powers (including the UK). Royals vs. True Royalty, and coming "Royal" attractions in Great Britain.

It's not every day an undocumented person gets to sit in the chamber of power and listen to the president. But that's what happened to Angie Kim. Emil Guillermo talks with Kim, a community organizing fellow at the Minkwon Center for Community Action in Flushing, Queens, NY. Brought to the U.S. at age name by her parents from South Korea, Kim qualified for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals program (DACA), in 2012. It gave her the right to get a work permit and stay in the U.S. Now 32, her future is in jeopardy, as President Trump has yet to say what will happen with DACA recipients. In recent days, some DACA recipients have been apprehended by ICE  under new broad guidelines. Kim, invited to the speech by Congresswoman Grace Meng, didn't get a shout out like the widow or Ryan Owens. Kim shares her thoughts on the politics of the night and how she uses her activism to deal with the fear she faces as the only undocumented person in her family Emil Guillermo write for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund blog. He is an award-winning journalist who was once an NPR host, newspaper columnist, and TV reporter.  See his work at www.aaldef.org/blog Or at www.amok.com www.twitter.com/emilamok   Emil Amok on the Speech. amok.com March 1, 2017 It wasn’t exactly a State of the Union, more like a Trump state of mind. But that means the best thing you could say about Trump45’s address before Congress is this: At least the TelePrompTer didn’t break. If it did, who knows what we would have seen on speech night. “Campaign Trump”? Or “Twitter Trump”? That’s the Trump who has been the real enemy of the people. But this speech was slightly more tempered. Milder. And he didn’t veer off wildly. The president showed us all— he could read! Sad. And just for doing that, 78 percent of viewers in a CNN/ORC poll gave Trump positive marks. Now that’s something Trump understands. Ratings. Governing, however, has been a mystery. But now Trump will learn from experience that if you give a political speech that’s long on promises on things like jobs, education, infrastructure, and Obamacare, without a stitch of detail on how to keep those promises, let alone pay for them, ratings can go up. And maybe he’ll start acting normal? That’s something both to welcome and to fear. Welcome because he’s not 100 percent in your face. Fear, because he’s figured out how the game works. And that of course, makes Trump more dangerous than ever. There were two things specifically I was looking for in the speech,  that  left  me pretty disappointed. Though Trump began the speech talking about Black History Month and civil rights, he really could have condemned the threats to the Jewish Community Centers and the vandalism of Jewish cemeteries much stronger than he did. And he could have dwelled on the shootings of Indian Americans in Olathe, near Kansas City. One man, Srinivas Kuchibhotla died. Another Indian American was wounded. A Caucasian man, Ian Grillot,24, was wounded trying to disarm the shooter, another Caucasian male, Adam Purinton, 51, who  started it all by hurling racial slurs at the Indians. These are the kind of things Trump45 has brought out in America since the start of his presidency. We should have seen a passionate denunciation of these acts. Instead,  rump simply read the prompter then bathed in the shower of self-congratulatory applause. It was as if just by being gracious makes him a hero. But what did Trump do since he’s taken over? With his anti-immigrant, build-a-wall, nationalistic rhetoric, he has given a segment of America a signal that hate is OK in America. The O-KKK. Trump’s victory unleashed all that on America. But the president acknowledged it with just a single line:  “While we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms.” It didn’t seem sincere. Not after the first 40 days. It seemed hollow. He didn’t even mention the Asian Americans by nationality or name. It was just a shooting in Kansas City. Not good enough. Of course, later in his speech, Trump milked another sentimental moment to honor Navy Senior Chief William “Ryan” Owens, who died in Yemen during a raid last January. The military is always a safe bet. So honor a Gold Star family, and deplete the domestic budget in favor billions for the military. But for the Jews, or for the murdered Indian immigrant? Trump gave them short-shrift. It’s the reason Trump’s big pre-speech “leak” that he would be calling for a bi-partisan immigration reform seemed just like an insincere  tease. After the travel ban fiasco, and the new ICE policies that have resulted in round ups of undocumented immigrants around the country, a real push for a compromise on immigration would have been a great headline. But there was “no there, there.” Not when Trump’s speech contained more talk of a border wall, references to “illegal immigrants,” and borders as “lawless chaos.” And then, as he is likes to do, Trump mixes border security with national security and all that entails, and creates for us all one big fear: “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” And he used that exact counter-productive term, once again, despite advice to refrain. By the time he got around to his pitch for a bi-partisan immigration  “compromise,” Trump had no credibility with minority communities and those close to the immigrants who are living in fear. Immigration has always been humanitarian based for political or economic reasons for the immigrant. The benefit to the U.S. has always been the extra. Trump’s idea is for a merit-based immigration. He wants to cherry-pick the best, because the best will make money for Trump, the U.S., and that’s all he really cares about. Once again, he could have made a better case had he mentioned the Indian man who died in Olathe, that suburb of Kansas City. His name was Srinivas Kuchibhotla. He was a tech worker at Garmin, the gps company. He was one of the immigrants Trump likes. But not enough to mention in a major speech. There were other glaring things Trump said. Like calling education the “civil rights issue of our time.” Really? So is that why Betsy DeVos–the voucher queen hell bent on destroying public education–the new secretary of education? And what about that travel ban? After the  speech, Trump cancelled again the announcement for the new executive order that was to supercede the one held up by the court in Washington state. Reports had it that Iraq would come off. Would other countries be added? I worry for the  Philippines. This is the week the militant group Abu Sayyaf, home based in the Philippines, revealed a video showing the beheading of a 70-year-old German hostage. Trump didn’t mention it at all. But it was in the subtext when Trump said, “We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside America—we cannot allow our Nation to become a sanctuary for extremists.” Stated or unstated, you knew that the beheading in the Philippines,  reported in the New York Times on speech day, could potentially be more fuel for Trump’s xenophobic fire. And this was a toned down speech. So if you hear people praise Trump about this speech and the polls giving him good marks for his performance,  don’t be fooled. All he did was stick to the TelePrompTer. And act presidential. Remember, he’s all showbiz. It’s still the same old Trump.  

GRP 64- First and foremost I want to send out my condolences to the family, friends, and teammates of Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens, 36, of Peoria, Ill. Owens died after he was wounded during a nighttime raid on an al-Qaeda-held village in southwestern Yemen on Saturday. He was a U.S. Navy SEAL who served with distinction for over 15 years. This episode was co-hosted by Chantel Taylor. Back on for this episode is my friend Tu Lam from Ronin Tactics. Because of the experiences of Chantel, and Tu I thought it would be a good idea to discuss Africa. We discuss the difficulties of the natural terrain, of the animals that inhabit Africa. We talked transnational terrorism and groups that rotate between Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia. Africa is a complex region. Tu spends several years in Africa fighting in Libya, and several other areas that are considered terror hotbeds. Bot he and Chantel share several stories of their time in the service. Below is an excerpt. John: The Sudan was a safe haven for Osama Bin Laden prior to 2001. There's a whole bunch of training camps with different groups like Boko Haram. Look at the Philippine’s where the terrorist would filter into the country, get some training and filter back into the middle east and conduct operations there. Now with the rise of ISIS, a lot of these groups in Africa are pledging allegiance to them which can cause problems down the line. Tu Lam: What I see John is the majority of these future terrorists they don't have an out, man. You have to put yourself in their shoes. I could be the guy who goes in and hates the enemy and drops a 500 lb JDAM(bomb) or goes out and do direct action missions but I see the bigger picture. These are the guys that when they're 8 years old these rebel forces go into their villages hand you an AK, and say gun down your mom and dad then hack your sister up with a machete, or we'll hack you up with a machete. Just like the Philippine’s, Abu Sayyaf. They don't have an out, man. Chantel Taylor: https://www.amazon.com/Battleworn-Memoir-Combat-Medic-Afghanistan/dp/1491725281 Facebook: Battleworn Instagram: Mission_Critical Tu Lam: www.Ronintactics.com Social Media: RoninTactics Introduction words by Bruce Lee Music provided by Caspian: www.caspianmusic.net

No one really knows what Donald Trump plans to do as US Commander in Chief, but the United States' most influential war mongers have a plan. In this episode, hear the highlights from a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing - a hearing that was kept off of C-SPAN and had no one in attendance - and get some insight into the advice our next President will be given to direct our nation at war. Please support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Hearing Highlighted in this Episode Emerging U.S. Defense Challenges and Worldwide Threats, Senate Armed Services Committee, December 6, 2016 Witnesses Robert Kagan Served in the State Department in the Reagan administration Co-founder of the Project for a New American Century, a think tank that laid out a plan for the United States to use our massive military to force a global order centered around American control. Served on the 25 member State Department Foreign Affairs Policy Board under Hillary Clinton & John Kerry. Current: Senior Fellow, Project on International Order and Strategy, The Brookings Institution Current: Board of Directors for the Foreign Policy Initiative Family: "First Family of Military Interventionists” Married to Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State, European & Eurasian Affairs in the Obama administration Father: Donald Kagan, Yale professor and co-chairman of the Project for a New American Century report outlining the global dominance plan Brother: Frederick Kagan, military historian & author, member of the American Enterprise Institute and Project for a New American Century. Was co-architect of the surge (with General Keane) Sister in law: Kimberly Kagan, President at the Institute for the Study of War General Jack Keane Chairman, Institute for the Study of War Former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army during the key Bush years, 1999-2003. Board of Directors at General Dynamics Shawn Brimley Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, the Center for a New American Century National Security Council from Feb 2011-October 2012 Research Associate at CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) from April 2005-Feb 2007 Columnist at War on the Rocks Council on Foreign Relations member *Clip transcripts below Sound Clip Sources YouTube: Julian Assange tells RT that the Russian government was not the source of Clinton campaign emails, posted November 5, 2016. YouTube: Julian Assange on Dutch television program Nieuwsuur to talk about the danger to their sources and the murder of Seth Rich, posted August 9, 2016. Local News Story: 27-Year-Old DNC Staffer Seth Rich Shot, Killed in Northwest DC by Pat Collins and Andrea Swalec, NBC Washington DC, July 11, 2016. Additional Reading Book: The Pentagon's New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett, May 2005. Article: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House by Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Greg Miller, December 9, 2016. Article: Army accelerates Active Protection Systems technology by Kris Osborn, Defense Systems, October 13, 2016. Press Release: Artis announces Army APS contract award, Business Wire (Berkshire Hathaway), September 28, 2016. Article: Seth Rich: Inside the Killing of the DNC Staffer by Jeff Stein, Newsweek, August 20, 2106. Twitter: Wikileaks offers $20,000 reward for information about Seth Rich's murder Article: Debbie Wasserman Shultz to Resign D.N.C. Post by Jonathan Martin and Alan Rappeport, New York Times, July 24, 2016. Article: Wasserman Shultz immediately joins Clinton campaign after resignation by Victor Morton, The Washington Times, July 24, 2016. Article: Army Pushes Missile Defense For Tanks: MAPS by Sydney Freedberg, Breaking Defense, April 25, 2016. Article: How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk by Mark Landler, New York Times, April 21, 2016. Email: John Podesta & Staff email his username & password, Wikileaks document, February 9, 2015 Blog post: Iron Curtain: Active Protective System (APS), by the editors of RicardCYoung.com, May 30, 2013. Miscellaneous Sources Webpage: Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go Recommended Podcast Episodes CD108: Regime Change CD102: The World Trade Organization: COOL? CD093: Our Future in War Jen's appearance on The Sea Hawkers Podcast, November 16, 2016. Hearing Clip Transcipts {18:30} Chairman John McCain: Our next president will take office as the U.S. confronts the most diverse and complex array of global security challenges since the end of the Second World War. Great power competition, once thought a casualty of the end of history, has returned as Russia and China have each challenged the rules-based order that is the foundation of our security and prosperity. Rogue states like North Korea and Iran are undermining regional stability while developing advanced military capabilities that threaten the United States and our allies. Radical Islamist terrorism continues to pose a challenging threat to our security at home and our interests abroad, and the chaos that has spread across the Middle East, and on which our terrorist enemies thrive, has torn apart nations; destroyed families; killed hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children; and sent millions more running for their lives. But today—today—President Obama will deliver a speech in Florida, touting his counter-terrorism successes. I’m not making that up. Ugh. Yet, even a glimpse at the chaos enveloping the Middle East and spreading throughout the world reveals the delusion and sophistry of this president and his failed policies. In short, when our next president is inaugurated, just six weeks from now, he will look out on a world on fire and have several consequential strategic choices to make: how to address Russian or Chinese aggression, how to confront threats from North Korean, whether to alter our relationship with Iran, how to improve and quicken our campaign against ISIL, how to counter the instability radiating from Syria, how to ensure a victory in the war in Afghanistan, and I could go on, not to mention the overwhelming challenge of cybersecurity. Our next president will not have the benefit of time and cautious deliberation to set a new strategic course for the nation; that work begins with a series of decisions that will present themselves immediately on day one. That’s why it’s so important to get these things right from the outset. As we ponder these strategic questions, we must also consider our military posture around the world. We must decide the appropriate military presence in Europe and reverse reductions made by the Obama administration under the assumption that Russia was a partner. We also need a fresh look at further steps to enhance U.S. presence in the Asia-Pacific region. We need to uphold our commitments to allies and partners, including by finally providing lethal assistance to Ukraine and standing by the opposition in Syria. We need to push back against the spread of Iranian malign influence in the Middle East. This starts in Iraq where the eventual liberation of Mosul will intensify the sectarian struggle for power and identity. We need to finally give our troops in Afghanistan what they need to succeed—permanent and flexible authorities to engage the enemy and troop levels based on security conditions on the ground. Here at home we need to return to a strategy-based defense budget. Our next president would need more than $100 billion over and above the Budget Control Act caps just to execute our current defense strategy, which is insufficient since it predates Russian invasion of Ukraine and ISIL’s rampage across Syria and Iraq. This will require our next president to negotiate a broad bipartisan agreement on the budget that brings an end to the dangerous and misguided Budget Control Act. {30:50} General Jack Keane: I’m delighted to be here with Dr. Kagan, a good friend, and let me just say something about Dr. Kagan here and his family. His father, himself, his wife, his brother, and his sister-in-law all made— Sen. John McCain?: All have exceeded—Keane: —a great contribution to this country, believe me. {35:45} Gen. Jack Keane: The reality is we need more combat brigades. The reality is we need more ships. The reality is we need more aircraft. It’s indisputable. {37:20} Gen. Jack Keane: The United States has not fielded a single active protection system on a tank yet or any other combat vehic— But your committee has mandated they do it, and you put some money in there for them to do it. Now, listen, if you don’t know what active protection system is, let me take you through it for a second. You put sensors on a vehicle that track an incoming round to the vehicle, and as the round is about to hit the vehicle, you actually have a kill system on the vehicle that kills the round before it hits. Brilliant technology. Where do we get all of that from? Private sector. It has to do with microchip technology and incredible software programs. Out there on a private sector, smart guys, small-business guys, got it; DARPA had a program over ten years ago to look at this; technology’s proven, and the United States military ground forces still haven’t put it on anything. What’s wrong with that? It has nothing to do with money. It doesn’t have anything to do with the White House. It doesn’t have anything to do with Congress. It doesn’t have anything to do with OSD. You know what it is? It’s the damn bureaucracy inside the Army. They push back on new technology because they want to design it themselves because you give them money to do it. These are the laboratories and the tech bases. It’s the acquisition bureaucracy that stalls this. When I was vice chief of staff for the Army, I had no idea about all of that, and it took me a year or two to figure out what I was really dealing with—bureaucrats and technocrats that were stalling the advance of a great army. That’s out there, and you’ve got to bore into that with this committee. The military and Defense Department needs help to break down that bureaucracy. {43:20} Gen. Jack Keane: Let me just say something about the DOD business side of the House. Certainly, we are the best fighting force in the world; we are first rate at that. But we’re absolutely third rate at running the business-like functions of DOD because we’re not good at it; we don’t know enough to be good at it. We’re managing huge real estate portfolios. We’re managing huge lodging capabilities. We’re one of the biggest motel owners in the United States. We’re managing the largest healthcare enterprise in the world. The amount of maintenance that we’re doing from a pistol to an aircraft carrier is staggering. Those are all business functions. Business functions. They’re all non-core functions. And we’re also managing new product design and new product development, using business terms, and we don’t do well at this, and there’s a ton of money involved in it. We’ve got to get after that money, and we’ve got to do better at it. And I think we should bring in, as a number-two guy in the Department of Defense, a CEO from a Fortune 500 company in the last five years that’s done a major turnaround of a large organization. We need business people to help us do this. We need a CFO, not a comptroller, in DOD. That CFO has the background that’s necessary to look at business practices in the DOD, where cost-basis analysis and performance, internal-controlled auditing, rigorous financial reviews, cost efficiency, and dealing with waste, those are the kinds of things we need—desperately need them because the money is there. You want to do so much more—some of that money is sitting right there in the budget. {46:55} Gen. Jack Keane: ISIS is the most successful terrorist organization that’s ever been put together. We’re making progress against them in Iraq, to be sure. We do not have an effective strategy to defeat them in Syria, because we don’t have an effective ground force. And we have no strategy to deal with the spread of ISIS to thirty-five other countries. I’m not suggesting for a minute that we’re involved in all of that, but I think we can tangibly help the people who are. {47:35} Gen. Jack Keane: In Iraq, we will retake Mosul. How long will depend on how much ISIS wants to resist; they didn’t resist in Fallujah and Ramadi that much. But after we take Mosul, if we have sectarian strife in Mosul, where we do not have unity of governance and unity of security, then that is going to contaminate the political unity and the country as a whole, which is so desperately needed. And that is a major issue for us. The major geopolitical issue for the United States and Iraq is political unity with their government and diminishing Iran’s strategic influence on Iraq. That is what we should be working on. {48:52} Gen. Jack Keane: The Syrian civil war, a major human catastrophe, to be sure, is a tractable problem, I think as any of us have had to deal with. The reality is we squandered the opportunities to change the momentum against the regime—I won’t list them all, and you’re aware of it—but right in front of us, I still believe we could put safe zones in there to safe guard some of those humans up near the Jordanian and Turkish border and that de facto would be a no-fly zone. I think it would also aid the Syrian moderates and likely attract some others to that movement. {49:49} Gen. Jack Keane: Afghanistan—let me just say, the war is not winnable under the current policy. We cannot win. And that’s the reality of it. We’ve got sanctuaries in Pakistan. No insurgency’s ever been defeated with sanctuaries outside the conflict area. Pakistani-Afghan national security forces do not have the enablers they need to be able to overcome the Taliban, who have resurged. {55:55} Robert Kagan: I want to talk about a subject that we don’t like to talk about in polite company, and it’s called world order. We naturally focus on threats to the homeland and our borders, and we talk about terrorism, as we must, as something that is obviously of utmost importance, has to be a top priority to protect the homeland. But as we look across the whole panoply of threats that we face in the world, I worry that it’s too easy to lose sight of what, to my mind, represent the greatest threats that we face over the medium- and long term and possibly even sooner than we may think, and that is the threat posed by the two great powers in the international system, the two great revisionist powers international system—Russia and China, because what they threaten is something that is in a way more profound, which is this world order that the United States created after the end of World War II—a global security order, a global economic order, and a global political order. This is not something the United States did as a favor to the rest of the world. It’s not something we did out of an act of generosity, although on historical terms it was a rather remarkable act of generosity. It was done based on what Americans learned in the first half of the twentieth century, which was that if there was not a power—whether it was Britain or, as it turned out, it had to be the United States—willing and able to maintain this kind of decent world order, you did not have some smooth ride into something else. What you had was catastrophe. What you had was the rise of aggressive powers, the rise of hostile powers that were hostile to liberal values. We saw it. We all know what happened with two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century and what those who were present at the creation, so to speak, after World War II wanted to create was an international system that would not permit those kinds of horrors to be repeated, and because the understanding was that while Americans believed very deeply in the 1920s and ’30s that they could be immune from whatever horrors happened out there in the world that it didn’t matter to them who ran Europe or who ran Asia or who did what to whom as long as we were safe, they discovered that that was not true and that ultimately the collapse of world order would come back and strike the United States in fundamental ways. And so Americans decided to take on an unusual and burdensome role of maintaining world order because the United States was the only power in the world that could do it, and the critical element of maintaining that world order was to maintain peace and stability in the two big cockpits of conflict that had destroyed the world and had produced repeated conflicts from the late nineteenth century onward, and that was Europe and Asia. The United States accomplished something that no other power had been able to accomplish before. It essentially put a cork in two areas that had been known for the constant warfare, put an end to an endless cycle of war between France and Germany, between Japan and China; and that was the stable world order that was created after World War II, that America gradually thrived in, that produced the greatest era of great-power peace that has been known in history, the greatest period of prosperity, the greatest period of the spread of democracy. {1:01:24} Robert Kagan We especially cannot take our eye off what I believe is ultimately the main game, which is managing these two revisionist powers and understanding what they seek. We cannot be under any illusions about Russia and China. We will find areas of cooperation with them—they both partake and benefit from and, in some case, sort of feed off of the liberal world order the United States has created—but let us never imagine that they are content with this order, that they do not seek fundamentally eventually upend this order, especially on the security side, to create a situation which they think ought to be the natural situation which is they being hegemonic in their own region. China has a historical memory of being hegemonic, dominant in its region. Russia has a historical memory, which Putin has expressed on numerous occasions, of restoring its empire, which stretched right into the heart of Central Europe. As far as they are concerned, the order that the United States has created is unfair, disadvantageous to them, temporary, and ought to be overturned. And I can only say that in the process of overturning that the history teaches that overturning does not occur peacefully. And so it should be our task both to prevent them from overturning it and to prevent them in a way that does not produce another catastrophic war. {1:04:00} Robert Kagan: It’s unfortunate that after these eight years in which this signal has been sent that during this political campaign, the president-elect comments during the campaign as well as those of his surrogates have only reinforced the impression that the United States is out of the world-order business—comments about whether the United States really should support NATO allies; comments about Estonia being in the suburbs of St. Petersburg; complaints about the need to defend Japan and is that an equitable thing; the fact that both candidates came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is really, in my eyes, a strategic deal more than a trade deal, designed to pull the United States and its Asian partners together. All the elements of this campaign have only sent even greater shockwaves throughout the world about what the United States stands for. So, in a certain sense, yes, the next administration has a big hole to dig out of; it also has to dig out of a hole, to some extent, of its own making. And so we need to see, in the early stages, in the very early stages, I would say, a clear repudiation of all that rhetoric; some clear signs that this new administration understands the importance not only of reassuring allies but a willingness to bolster our commitment to those allies, because after all, the challenge from the revisionist powers is increasing; therefore it’s not enough to say we’re committed to the defensive allies; we have to show that our capacities are increasing along with those of the increasing threat which, of course, gets to the defense budget, which I don’t have to talk to this committee about. {1:22:00} Robert Kagan: I’m very dubious that unless you actually increase the top line that you’re going to get what you need, because I just think, you know, you can only squeeze so far and be as brilliant as you can be. Brilliant is never going to be your answer, so I think the answer is there’s going to have to be more spending, and, you know, I’m not a budget expert at large either, but I would say we have to do whatever we need to do. We have to—if we need to raise taxes or we need to have some package that does that, if we need to find other ways of, you know, dealing problems like entitlement spending to do it, we have to do it. I mean, I lived through the Reagan years. There were increases in defense budget, which were offset by political bargains of one kind or another that required increases in domestic spending which led to increased defense budgets. We survived the—I mean, in overall deficits. We survived the deficits and won the Cold War. So I would say we are going to have to, as a nation, take this seriously enough to pay for it. {1:46:45} Senator Angus King: So selection of leaders is a crucial element, looking for innovative and willingness to move. Let me— Gen. Jack Keane: You’ve got to force the R&D effort, and you’ve got to talk to civilian—you’ve got to talk to defense industry on a regular basis because the defense industry is spending their time thinking about your function. They’re all also spending research dollars on it. You have to have regular communication with them. Let them know where you’re trying to go, bring them into it to help contribute to it, drive your own people to work with them as well. We can accelerate this process rather dramatically. King: And I would suggest that we have to. {1:50:00} Senator Joni Ernst: I would like to get your thoughts on ISIS in Southeast Asia because I do think it’s something that we haven’t spent a lot of time focusing on—we’re not talking about it nearly enough—and Islamic extremist groups in Southeast Asia, like the Abu Sayyaf group, they are all coming together under the flag of ISIS, and it’s a bit concerning. {1:52:20} Shawn Brimley: One of the tangible second-order benefits that we get from forward deploying our troops and capabilities overseas is we have that daily connectivity, and we have that daily deterrent prowess in places around the region. One of the debates that you see and hear inside the Pentagon, or one of the debates that we had inside the Pentagon as pertains to, say, the Marines in Darwin, for instance, is, you know, you start to break apart these larger entities, like a Marine Air-Ground Task Force, for instance, and you start to put a company here in Southern Philippines and put a task force of some kind in Australia. And there’s a tradeoff between doing that, which gives you that kind of daily interaction with local communities, the ability to do a counter-terrorism operations, for instance. But there is some risk that it becomes more difficult to quickly bring those capabilities back together for a larger threat, responding to a larger threat. And that’s the balance that DOD, particularly OSD, has to grapple with every day. {1:53:50} Senator Joni Ernst: General Keane, could you talk a little bit more about militarily what we could be doing in that region and the use of forces? * General Jack Keane*: Yeah, absolutely. And ISIS has expanded into 35 countries, and we don’t really have a strategy to deal with any of that. We’re focused on the territory that they took, certainly in Iraq and Syria, and I’m not saying that’s not appropriate—that should be a priority—but commensurate with that priority, we should be addressing these other areas as well. And a lot of the identification with ISIS is aspirational but they also have affiliates in these countries—this is one of them—and with an affiliate, they actually sign a document together to abide by certain ISIS principles and rules. And in some cases they direct, some cases they provide aid, but in most cases there’s no direction, and that’s largely the case here. But I believe what the United States can do with its allies is, you know, we’ve been at war with organizations like this now for 15 years, and our reservoir of knowledge and capability here is pretty significant, and it far exceeds anybody else in the world, but we have allies that are participating with us. There’s much we can do with them in sharing intelligence and helping them with training and also helping them with technology—not expensive technology, but things that can truly make a difference with those troops, and I don’t think we necessarily have to be directly involved in fighting these forces ourselves, but aiding and supporting these forces and having a strategy to do that— {1:57:55} Senator Jeanne Shaheen: You also talked about taking retaliatory action against Russia for what they’re doing. What kinds of efforts would you suggest we look at in terms of trying to retaliate or respond to what Russia’s doing in the United States? Robert Kagan: Well, I’m sure there’re people better equipped to answer that question than I am, but I would, you know, publish the Swiss bank accounts of all the oligarchs around. I mean, there are all kinds of things that you could do that would cause— Shaheen: Yeah, keep, keep saying a few— Kagan: Well, I mean— Shaheen: A few more of those because I think those are helpful. Kagan: You know, you could talk about all the ways in which you could reveal stuff about the way Putin has manipulated his own elections. I mean, there’s all kinds of stuff out there, which, if you were of a mind to do it, you could do that would be embarrassing of one kind or another. I mean, these people have money stashed all over the world. They have dachas, they have villas, etc. This is a kind of a Mafia organization where part of the game is everybody holding together. There are ways to create divisions and difficulties. I mean, I’m sure, as I say, there are people who could, if you put them to the task—and for all I know they have been put to the task—you could come up with a whole list of things. And, by the way, I wouldn’t make an announcement of it; they would understand what had happened. But until we do something like that, it’s just open season for them to do this, and so I think we need to treat this like any other weapons system that’s being deployed, because they are treating it like a weapons system. {2:00:32} Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: One of the things, General Keane, that you pointed out is that there is a predilection to try and kill some of the innovative programs so that the Pentagon can actually do those themselves. We had this experience with the Small Business Innovation Research program as we’re going into this NDAA because the initial effort was to try and increase the amount of money that DOD is making available to small businesses to do innovation, and I think we’ve heard from a number of panelists previously that this is one of the best research programs that still exists within—for small businesses to produce innovation that’s used by the Department of Defense. So, is this the kind of initiative that you’re talking about that there may be, for whatever reason, efforts to try and keep it from putting more money into that small-business effort to produce innovation?* Gen. Jack Keane*: I certainly encourage that. You know, the active protection system that I was talking about and that when DARPA made a call to the people to come forward and they knew that this would be an advanced technology that could actually change warfare, the contractor that the United States Army has gone to is a small-business contractor. So here’s this small-business contractor, conceptualized this capability themselves, and it will revolutionize combat warfare as we go forward. They also have technology, interesting enough, and they’ve brought military leaders out to see it, they can stop a bullet. In other words, a 50-caliber bullet, they can kill a bullet. And it’s all because of everything—all of this is available in the private sector. Microchip technology, as I mentioned, and unbelievable software apply to that technology. Well, that’s revolutionary technology that I just mentioned to you. It changes warfare. And so that is something we should be investing in. We should put money behind this. I have no affiliation with this organization—let’s get that straight. {2:05:27} Senator Mike Lee: For several decades, Congress, quite regrettably in my opinion, has deliberately abdicated many of its constitutional responsibilities, and it’s just sort of handed it over to the executive branch, being willing to take a backseat role—a backseat role, at best—in determining America’s role around the world and how we’re going to combat threats that face us. The result ends up being a foreign policy that is made primarily within the executive-branch bureaucracy and Washington-insider circles, informed, as they tend to be, by the interests and the aspirations of the so-called international community. This is a circle that increasingly becomes untethered from any clear lines of accountability, connecting policy, policy makers, and the American people. For instance, the U.S. military is currently operating in the Middle East under a very broad, I believe irresponsibly broad, interpretation of a 15-year-old authorization for the use of military force, using it as justification to engage in a pretty-broad range of actions, from intervening in two separate civil wars to propping up a failing Afghan government. Meanwhile, the executive branch seems increasingly inclined to choose and identify and engage threats through covert actions, and that further helps the executive branch to avoid the scrutiny that would be available if stronger Congressional oversight existed, and they avoid that kind of scrutiny and public accountability. This may be convenient for members of Congress who want nothing more than to just have someone else to blame for decisions that turn out to be unpopular or unsuccessful, but it’s an affront to the Constitution. And it’s more than that; it’s more than just an affront to a 229-year-old document—it’s an affront to the system of representative government that we have dedicated ourselves to as Americans, and I think it’s an insult to the American people who are losing patience with a foreign policy that they feel increasingly and very justifiably disconnected from, notwithstanding the fact that they’re still asked from time to time to send their sons and daughters into harm’s way to defend it. So as we discuss these emerging threats to our national security, I’d encourage this committee and all of my colleagues to prioritize the threat that will inevitably come to us if we continue to preserve this status quo and to exclude the American people and their elected representatives, in many cases ourselves, from the process. So I have a question for our panelists. One of the focuses of this committee has been on the readiness crisis within the military, brought about by the conflicts we’re facing in the Middle East and by a reduction in the amount of money that the Pentagon has access to. The easy answer to this is often, well, let’s just increase spending. That’s not to say that that’s not necessary now or in other circumstances in particular, but setting aside that, that is one approach that people often come up with. But another option that I think has to be considered, and perhaps ought to be considered first, is to reexamine the tasks and the priorities that we’re giving to our military leaders and to ask whether these purposes that we’re seeking readiness for are truly in the interest of the American people, those we’re representing, those who are paying the bill for this, and those who are asked to send their sons and daughters into harm’s way. * Sen. John McCain: Senator’s time has expired. *Lee: So,-- McCain: Senator’s time has expired. Lee: Could I just ask a one-sentence question, Mr. Chairman, to— McCain: Yes, but I would appreciate courtesy to the other members that have—make one long opening statement, it does not leave time for questions. Senator’s recognized for question. Lee: Okay. Do you believe that the Congress, the White House, and the executive branch agencies have done an adequate job in reaching consensus on what the American people’s interests are and on calibrating the military and diplomatic means to appropriate ends? {2:10:43} Robert Kagan: I don’t accept this dichotomy that you posited between what the Congress and the President do and what the American people want. I mean, when I think of some of the—first of all, historically, the executive has always had tremendous influence on foreign policy—whatever the Constitution may say, although the Constitution did give the executive tremendous power to make foreign policy. If you go back to Jefferson, the willingness to deploy force without Congressional approval, you can go all the way through 200 years of history, I’m not sure it’s substantially different, but in any case, that’s been the general prejudice. The Founders wanted energy in the executive and particularly in the conduct of foreign policy. That was the lesson of the Revolutionary War. That’s why they created a Constitution which particularly gave power to the executive. But also, I just don’t believe that the American people are constantly having things foisted on them that they didn’t approve of. So one of the most controversial things that’s happened, obviously, in recent decade that people talk about all the time is the Iraq war, which was voted on; debated at length in Congress; 72 to 28, I think was the vote, or something like that. The American people, public opinion, was in favor of it, just as the American people was in favor of World War I, the Spanish-American War later. These wars turn out to be bad or badly handled, the American people decide that it was a terrible idea, and then people start saying, well, who did this? And the American people want to find somebody to blame for doing these things; they don’t want to take responsibility for their own decisions. I don’t believe we have a fundamentally undemocratic way of making foreign-policy decisions; I think it’s complicated, I think mistakes are made. Foreign policy’s all about failure. People don’t want to acknowledge that failure is the norm in foreign policy, and then they want to blame people for failure. But I think the American people are participants in this process. {2:22:26} Senator Lindsay Graham: We’re talking about important things to an empty room. Just look. Just look. So, Iran with a nuke. Number one—I’m going to ask, like, 45 questions in five minutes. Give brief answers if you can. If you can’t, don’t say a word. Do you believe that the Iranians in the past have been trying to develop a nuclear weapon, not a nuclear power plant, for peaceful purposes? Shawn Brimley: Yes. Gen. Jack Keane: Nuclear weapon, yes. Graham: All right, three for three. Do you believe that’s their long-term goal, in spite of what they say is to have a nuclear weapon? Keane: Yes. Brimley: [nods] Robert Kagan: [thumbs up] Graham: Okay. Do you believe that’d be one of the most destabilizing things in the world? Brimley: Yes. Graham: Do you believe the Arabs will get one of their own? Brimley: Yes. Kagan: [nods] Graham: Do you believe the Iranians might actually use the weapon if they’d gotten one, the Ayatollah? Brimley: [nods] Keane: Well, I think that—before I answer that, I think there’s just as great a chance that the Arabs would use their weapon as a first right to take it away. Graham: Okay, then, so, we don’t know—well, let’s have— Bob, you shook your head. If you’re Israel, what bet would you make? Kagan: [speaks, but mic is not on] Graham: Okay, but what if he wants to die and he doesn’t mind taking you with him? What does he want? Does he want to destroy Israel, or is he just giddy? Kagan: [speaks, but mic is not on] Graham: When the Ayatollah says he wants to wipe Israel out, so it’s just all talk? Kagan: I don’t know if it’s all talk, and I don’t blame people for being nervous. We lived under—the United States, we all lived under the shadow of a possible nuclear war for 50 years. Graham: Yeah, but, you know, on their worst day the Russians didn’t have a religious doctrine that wanted to destroy everybody. Do you believe he’s a religious Nazi at his heart, or you don’t know? And the answer may be you don’t know. Kagan: I believe that he clearly is the—believes in a fanatical religion, but— Graham: Here’s what I believe. Kagan: I’m not—okay, go. Graham: Okay, I believe that you ought to take him seriously, based on their behavior. Number one— Keane: I think we should take him seriously. Whether they’re religious fanatics or not, I don’t think is that relevant. Clearly, their geopolitical goals to dominate the Middle East strategically, to destroy the state of Israel, and to drive the United States out of the Middle East, they’ve talked about it every single year— Graham: Well, do you think that’s their goal?Keane: Yes. Graham: Okay, so do you- Keane: Of course it’s their goal. And not only is it their goal, but they’re succeeding at it. Graham: Do you think we should deny them that goal. Graham: Good. North Korea—why are they trying to build an ICBM? Are they trying to send a North Korean in space? What are they trying to do? Brimley: They’re trying to threaten us. Kagan: To put a nuclear weapon on it— Graham: Do you believe it should be the policy of the United States Congress and the next president to deny them that capability? Brimley: I believe so. Graham: Would you support an authorization to use military force that would stop the ability of the North Koreans to develop a missile that could reach the United States? Do you think Congress would be wise to do that? Brimley: I think Congress should debate it. I remember distinctly the op-ed that Secretary William Perry and Ashton Carter— Graham: I’m going to introduce one. Would you vote for it if you were here? Kagan: Only if Congress was willing to do what was necessary to a followup—Graham: Well, do you think Congress should be willing to authorize any president, regardless of party, to stop North Korea from developing a missile that can hit the homeland? Kagan: Only if Congress is willing to follow up with what might be required, depending on North Korea’s response. Graham: Well, what might be required is to stop their nuclear program through military force; that’s why you would authorize it. Kagan: No, but I’m saying that if I’m—the answer is yes, but then you also have to be willing, if North Korea launched—Graham: Would you advise me— Kagan: —that you’d have to be willing to— Sen. John McCain: You have to let the witness. Graham: Yeah, but he’s not giving an answer, so here’s the question. Kagan: Oh, I thought I— Graham: Do you support Congress—everybody’s talking about Congress sitting on the sidelines. I think a North Korean missile program is designed to threaten the homeland; I don’t think they’re going to send somebody in space. So if I’m willing, along with some other colleagues, to give the president the authority—he doesn’t have to use it—but we’re all on board for using military force to stop this program from maturing, does that make sense to you, given the threats we face? Keane: I don’t believe that North Korea is going to build an ICBM, weaponize it, and shoot it at the United States. Graham: Okay, then, you wouldn’t need the authorization to use military force. Keane: Right. And the reason for that is— Graham: That’s fine. Keane: The reason—Senator, the reason they have nuclear weapons is one reason: to preserve their regime. They know when you have nuclear weapons we’re not going to conduct an invasion of North Korea. South Korea’s not going to do it; we’re not going to do it. Graham: Why are they trying to build ICBM? Keane: They want to weaponize it. Graham: And do what with it? Keane: I don’t bel— Kagan: Preserve their regime. Graham: Okay, all right. So, you would be okay with letting them build a missile? Kagan: No, but— Graham: Would you, General Keane? Keane: They’re already building a missile. Graham: Well, would you be willing to stop them? Keane: I would stop them from using it, yes. Graham: Okay. Keane: I’m not going to stop them from— Graham: Assad—final question. Do all of you agree that leaving Assad in power is a serious mistake? Brimley: Yes. Keane: Yes, absolutely. Graham: Finally, do you believe four percent of GDP should be the goal that Congress seeks because it’s been the historical average of what we spend on defense since World War II?Kagan: Pretty close. Graham: Thanks. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations

GRP 40- Dan, the owner of Combat Flags, and US Army veteran joined me for our 40th episode. We discuss the role of a PYSOP (Physiological Operations) Solider, OEF-P, and his company Combat Flags. Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines is a lesser known campaign to rid the Philippine’s of Islamic terror groups. We discuss the situation there, and what the Pilipino government is doing to counter the threat. Dan’s company Combat Flags, create these beautiful American flags put together using the uniforms of veterans from all branches. It’s really awesome work, and Combat Flags donates half of the money to Stop Solider Suicide. Below is an excerpt from the episode. John Hendricks: During the height of the Iraq war, now in Syria, and Iraq people who are critical of the war efforts would say things like we’re out there fighting farmers, and things like that. Which is very far from the truth. Apart of the truth is what removing Saddam from power was lifting that stringent, and strict security measures that kept out these transnational terrorist organizations out. What ends up happening is now you have fighters from Chechnya, the larger middle east, and Africa. In the Philippine’s was it Pilipino terrorism, or was it international groups operating there? Dan: The Philippines falls within South East Asia, and it’s an Archipelago nation. The terrorist activity predominately takes place in the southern Philippine’s. Back in the mid to late 70’s this group called the Moral National Liberation Front (MNLF) started to take hold, and open up these insurgent training camps. The MNLF had an internal coup, and split off into a separate group called the Moral Islamic Liberation Front. These camps really paved the way for what I was working with, and what guys who preceded me were working with. Throughout the years there have been thousands of Jihadist who were trained there, and going to Pakistan, Iraq, you name it. I liked to refer to it as the minor league of terrorism. That’s where the terrorist goes, get there training, and when ready for the big leagues they get called up, and head out to the middle east. These training camps in the 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s were pumping out guys left and right. Some of the more notable folks who came through the Philippine’s during the 80’s was Osama Bin Laden’s brother in law. Another guy named Ramsey Yousef, who was one of the primary architects of the World Trade Center bombings in 93. A more contemporary guy named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed he’s one of the big guys from the 9/11 attacks. He was a former secretary of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. These groups gained ground pretty quick, and have been causing havoc on the southern part of the Philippine’s through bombings, and kidnappings. Send questions, or comments to Podcast@globalrecon.net

On the recent killing of Canadian Robert Hall at the hands of Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, and the ethics of current Canadian policies on negotiating international hostages. LINKS Trudeau Statement: http://bit.ly/1UPraW1 Bob Rae Article: http://bit.ly/1XXzgAn FOLLOW insta: @fraserallanbest twitter: @FraserAllanBest

An Islamist terrorist group beheaded Canadian John Ridsdel, a death confirmed by police after a grisly find in Southern Philippines this week. The former mining executive had been held hostage by Abu Sayyaf since late last year. Is Trudeau to blame for failing to secure Ridsdel's release?

For American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham, what started out as a relaxing, once-in-a-lifetime anniversary getaway at an exotic island resort turned into one of the most horrific nightmares imaginable.Kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group with ties to Osama bin Laden, the Burnhams were snatched away from friends and family and thrust into a life on the run in the Philippine jungle. During a perilous year in captivity, they faced near starvation, constant exhaustion, frequent gun battles, coldhearted murder—and intense soul-searching about a God who sometimes seemed to have forgotten them.

Gracia Burnham shares her testimony of her nightmare as a hostage of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippine jungles and God's work in her life through it. It's an incredible story of forgiveness.

The girls drink a cocktail with Patron Lime Liqueur and tonic. Sarah starts the episode with the story of when Maria Ridulph goes missing and the family's journey to find justice. Emily closes the episode with the story of the Abu Sayyaf and the Burnhams, a missionary couple in the Philippines.