Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat (L)

Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat (L) with congress member Beng Climaco (R) show US congress member Heather Wilson (C) a marker of the city hall in Zamboanga City, 25 August 2007. Five bipartisan members of the US Congress from different states visited Zamboanga city headed by Texas Representative Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the permanent select committee on intelligence and the armed services committee. Reyes said "we recommend that we expand the assistance and support to the Philippines as part of the effort to secure the region from terrorism." AFP PHOTO / THERENCE KOH (Photo credit should read THERENCE KOH/AFP via Getty Images)