. >> marine brigadier general john o'toolen. oversees the response to the war on terror. >> this is the apex of the terrorist triangle which reaches up to the southern philippines, south of malaysia and connecting with indonesia. everything moves somehow through that area. >> the thousands of islands in the archipelago are spread over the hundreds of thousands of miles of ocean. in the southern philippines the population is almost exclusively muslim and quite the opposite in the north where the population is christian. these muslim regions are claimed suffer from neglect. >> they claim that they want to create a pure islamic nation and these are the people that are outside of their foreign terrorists. >> the leader of the philippine military response to terrorists is armed chief of staff. >> we are pursuing them in the southern island and particularly in the southern island where they have been cornered. >> to understand the unique challenge of fighting terror here, "war stories" traveled to the lush tropical islands of sulu. th

. >> marine brigadier general john o'toolen. oversees the response to the war on terror. >> this is the apex of the terrorist triangle which reaches up to the southern philippines, south of malaysia and connecting with indonesia. everything moves somehow through that area. >> the thousands of islands in the archipelago are spread over the hundreds of thousands of miles of ocean. in the southern philippines the population is almost exclusively muslim and quite the opposite in the north where the population is christian. these muslim regions are claimed suffer from neglect. >> they claim that they want to create a pure islamic nation and these are the people that are outside of their foreign terrorists. >> the leader of the philippine military response to terrorists is armed chief of staff. >> we are pursuing them in the southern island and particularly in the southern island where they have been cornered. >> to understand the unique challenge of fighting terror here, "war stories" traveled to the lush tropical islands of sulu. th