WESTMINCOM HEALING HOUSE OPENS WITH 3 KIDNAPPED VICTIMS

The WESTMINCOM HEALING HOUSE opened yesterday with its first kidnapped victims

and family. Three females were kidnapped by the al Qaeda related Abu Sayyaf Terrorist Group

in Basilan and were admitted to this new Program located within the Southern Philippine

Military Base in Zamboanga City. (Western Mindanao Command) The victims include one child

and all were treated brutally.

The US has a small encampment within this Base for the American
Military who are advisers to the Philippine Military and who provide much needed humanitarian
aid. The US does not fight the Terrorists within the Philippines and are very restricted by the
Visiting Forces Agreement. (Most Americans are limited to staying only inside the encampment
or being accompanied by Philippine Military when elsewhere.)

The Healing House is located within the Philippine Military area that is private and
very restricted. Therefore, all victims are safe. The victims receive food in a nice but small house
that was recently decorated by the Healing House. Comfortable and attractive furniture in lovely
surroundings brings an atmosphere of healing. Staff from the WestMinCom Hospital are
providing counseling under the clinical direction of the Camp Navarro Hospital Psychologist.
Music, videos, exercise, laugh group and outings are some of the activities offered in this new
Model Program. The Colonel and I are overseeing the project and the Healing House Non Profit
is paying for expenses for a free two week stay for victims of terrorism and war in the areas of
Southern Mindanao, Basilan and Sulu. The identity of the victims are kept confidential but all
have been traumatized by the typical terrorist behaviors of kidnapping, rape, beheadings or the
trauma of Conflict (War). This new Healing House hopes to offer help to children and adults and
their families who are so brutally traumatized in this Philippine Battle against Terrorism.
Updates will be coming