Passage: The US State Department and western allies have designated the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which Sison established in 1968, and its armed wing the New People's Army (NPA), as "foreign terrorist organizations". Sison, who lives in exile in the Netherlands where he is seeking political asylum, accused President Gloria Arroyo's government of implicating the CPP-NPA in terrorism to justify his arrest by Washington, Manila's top military ally.
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