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[Title] => Marines overrun another Sayyaf training camp
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ZAMBOANGA CITY — Marines and Army Scout Rangers seized a forward base of the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) following a series of skirmishes over the weekend in the jungles of Patikul, Sulu.
Lt. Col. Susthenes Valcorza, Armed Forces Southern Command spokesman, said two Scout Rangers and six Abu Sayyaf terrorists were killed in fierce fighting to capture the rebel camp at Mt. Sinumaan in Patikul.
Twenty-one Scout Rangers and four Marines were wounded in the skirmish, he added.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => Rebs hold teachers, students hostage during Zambo raid
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ZAMBOANGA CITY — Communist guerrillas apparently looking for food and medicines swooped down on a public school in Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay yesterday and held the teachers and students, along with a priest, hostage, the military said.
The New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, numbering about 50, herded the teachers and pupils of the Buayan National School while they searched the premises for food and medicines.
Lt. Col. Susthenes Valcorza, spokesman of the Armed Forces Southern Command, said the rebels left their hostages unharmed as they fled.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-24 00:00:00
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[Title] => PNP gets P300 million to fight insurgency
[Summary] => DAVAO CITY — The Philippine National Police is ready to use a P300-million fund from Malacañang to fight rebels and terrorists.
Speaking at the Philippine Mayors’ League of Luzon congress at the Apo View Hotel here yesterday, PNP chief Director General Oscar Calderon said the first P150 million shall be used to buy guns and other modern equipment to boost the police force’s firepower.
The remaining P150 million will be used to enhance their intelligence network and implement reforms for the benefit of policemen, he added.
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[Title] => Headless body of Sulu kidnap victim found
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ZAMBOANGA CITY — The headless body of a 28-year-old Sulu resident, who was abducted together with his mother by suspected Abu Sayyaf men last month, was found dumped near a mosque in Jolo yesterday, the military said.
While the torso of Jeffrey Silbin was discovered near the mosque in Barangay Tulay, his head was found in the vicinity of the Sulu Provincial Hospital in Barangay Asturias, said Col. Mohammad Nur Askalani, spokesman and acting chief of staff of the Armed Forces Southern Command.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-13 00:00:00
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[Title] => Headless body of Sulu kidnap victim found
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ZAMBOANGA CITY — The headless body of a 28-year-old Sulu resident, who was abducted together with his mother by suspected Abu Sayyaf men last month, was found dumped near a mosque in Jolo yesterday, the military said.
While the torso of Jeffrey Silbin was discovered near the mosque in Barangay Tulay, his head was found in the vicinity of the Sulu Provincial Hospital in Barangay Asturias, said Col. Mohammad Nur Askalani, spokesman and acting chief of staff of the Armed Forces Southern Command.
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[Title] => Marines release 2 Sayyaf minors
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Marines released two of the five suspected Abu Sayyaf members whom they captured in Patikul, Sulu last Wednesday after they turned out to be minors, the military said.
This developed as the government troops shifted their offensive against the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf from Indanan to Patikul town where Khadaffy Janjalani, the extremist group’s chieftain, and two Jemaah Islamiyah members, Dulmatin and Umar Patek, had slipped into to elude their attackers.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => Sayyaf leader’s son slain in Sulu clash
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The son of Abu Sayyaf commander Radullan Sahiron was among three terrorists killed in the ongoing military offensive in Sulu, but government troops are still looking for two terror suspects wanted in the 2002 Bali bombings, officials said yesterday.
Ismin Sahiron, a son of the one-armed Abu Sayyaf commander, was killed in the four-day-old offensive in the jungles of Jolo, Sulu, said Col. Mohammad Nur Askalani, Armed Forces Southern Command acting chief of staff.
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[Title] => Sulu air, ground offensive continues
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Navy captured four suspected Abu Sayyaf supporters yesterday as they tried to breach a naval blockade of Jolo, Sulu to flee the military’s artillery bombardment and air strikes, which continued for the third day yesterday.
The offensive is targeting Abu Sayyaf chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants Umar Patek and Dulmatin who are wanted for the Bali bombings in Indonesia in October 2002.
Janjalani, Patek and Dulmatin were initially spotted in Central Mindanao but were able to slip through a military dragnet.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-04 00:00:00
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[Title] => Hepe ng CVO dinedo sa harap ng pamilya
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ZAMBOANGA CITY – Pinagbabaril hanggang sa mapatay ng mga rebeldeng New People’s Army (NPA) ang isang hepe ng Civilian Volunteer Organization sa harap mismo ng kanyang pamilya sa liblib na bayang sakop ng Compostela Valley Province, ayon sa ulat ng military.
Binistay ng bala ng malalakas na kalibre ng baril ang biktimang si Joselito Salazar na isa ring village councilman sa Barangay Linda na sakop ng bayan ng Nabuntaran.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-01 00:00:00
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[Title] => RP-US Bayanihan shifts to humanitarian exercises
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ZAMBOANGA CITY — Starting August, the Bayanihan military exercise between US and Filipino troops will be expanded and be known as "Kapit Bisig (Linked Arms)."
The war games will continue to focus on the humanitarian and training capabilities of American and Filipino soldiers in fighting terrorism, military officials said.
Armed Forces Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Gabriel Habacon said the Kapit Bisig exercise was adopted through the RP-US Security Engagement Board.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-31 00:00:00
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