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This particular hostage-taking is the responsibility of Uncle $am both because the Philippines is a U.$-puppet regime that is in the "coalition" and because U.$. violence has caused the Afghan people to strike back.
We would say there is a general difference between U.$. hostages and Third World hostages. In Iraq and Afghanistan, U.$. contractors are there to make money from the occupation--and those contracts will be so lucrative that we can classify the contractors as exploiters profiting from the oppression of Iraqis and Afghans. In the case of Third World contractors or UN workers, the general economic position is not as clear.
There is always the risk that innocent people will be mistaken as running dogs of u.$. imperialism, but as some Filipinos have pointed out, the Filipinos run that risk till they run the u.$. lackey regime off the islands.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the Filipino people in calling for the safe release of Filipino UN worker Angelito Nayan and other hostages currently being held in Afghanistan.
The CPP holds the US government, principally, and the Arroyo regime responsible for the fate that has befallen Nayan. The Afghan people and resistance groups have been driven to carry out such unacceptable methods of struggle by the viciousness and barbarity with which US imperialism has conducted its war of aggression against Afghanistan and suppressed the Afghan people's freedom and human rights.
The unjust and murderous US war of aggression against Afghanistan has dealt widespread destruction and grave suffering on the Afghan people. The thickly veiled US neocolonial rule of Afghanistan has fired up the Afghan people's desire for national freedom.
The Arroyo regime is condemnable for blindly supporting US imperialism in its wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq.
In the final analysis, it is its acts of servility to US imperialism that has put Angelito Nayan and other Filipinos like him in harm's way.