User:Johngilbuena

When John A. Gilbuena, a Filipino war correspondent, wrote in 2003 his book of war entitled: "THE FOURTH WORLD WAR (Global Anti-terror War)-The Road to Damascus (In Search for Saddam)," he was working then as a news reporter who contributed daily stories on Muslim rebellion, communist insurgency, terrorist activities in the Philippines and nearby countries to Sekai Nippo, a Japanese newspaper. He also served as a freelance news contributor to several top Western news agencies.

Gilbuena earned his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at the University of Santo Tomas (UST)in Manila. Aslo a law graduate, he preferred news writing in search of truth affecting people, society, and environment.

Before he worked for the foreign media, including the (German Press Agency) Deutsche Presse Agentur, (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) NHK TV-Manila, (Japanese News Agency) JIJI Press, and Mainichi Shimbun- Manila, he was one of the original news correspondents who constituted the first pioneering reportorial team of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 1986.

Foreign news agencies hired him often to cover on site the separatist Muslim war in Mindanao; the Abu Sayyaf kidnappings in Jolo and Basilan; terrorist activities of the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah in Southeast Asia; and the war in Iraq where he roved the dangerous expansive Middle East desert which has continuously become a virtual war zone ever since the Biblical times.

His utmost calling as a peace advocate to help prevent in his own little way any accidental and intentional explosion of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and the resurgence of Islamic jihad to challenge the superpower and mostly Christians and non-Muslims around the world, motivated him to write his book.