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[Title] => US troops turn over renovated Basilan hospital to RP officials
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — A government hospital renovated by US troops in the southern Philippines was officially turned over yesterday to local authorities in the rebel-plagued Basilan island, the military said.
Southern Command (Southcom) chief Lt. Gen. Narciso Abaya flew to Basilan island to personally preside over the opening ceremony for the 25-room hospital in Lamitan town.
The chief of the US Special Operations command in the Pacific, Brig. Gen. Donald Wurster, was to have flown to Basilan to attend the ceremonies but was canceled.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-20 00:00:00
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[Title] => Government determined to hold next Balikatan in Sulu - Golez
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — The government is bent on holding a "component" of the next joint RP-US "Balikatan" exercises in Sulu where remnants of the Abu Sayyaf are hiding in their jungle lairs, National Security Adviser Roilo Golez said yesterday.
"President Arroyo made it very clear in her speech during the Philippine Air Force Day that she would like a Sulu component (in the next Balikatan)," Golez told reporters here moments after he met with Brig. Gen. Donald Wurster, commander of US forces currently in the country.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-12 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘Giant fish swallowed him up’
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — While the military continues to scour the sea for the remains of Abu Sayyaf terrorist leader Abu Sabaya, old fisherfolk here believe recovery operations should focus on a big fish that supposedly inhabits Zamboanga’s waters.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘No real info yet on Abu leaders’
[Summary] => As word goes out about the $5-million bounty offered last week by the US for the heads of five top Abu Sayyaf leaders, military commanders in Basilan are still waiting for that valuable piece of information that would reveal the whereabouts of the elusive enemy.
Col. Alexander Alejo, whose Army soldiers have been running after the bandits for months, said they have yet to receive solid information on the Abu Sayyaf leaders’ whereabouts.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-02 00:00:00
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[Title] => New CINCPAC cites progress of ‘Balikatan’
[Summary] => ISABELA City (AFP) — The commander-in-chief of the US forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) Adm. Thomas Fargo said yesterday he was pleased at the work of US troops training Philippine troops to fight local allies of the al-Qaeda terror network.
"I’m very satisfied with the work. I’m happy with what the US forces have been doing down here. We are here to support the Philippine government," Fargo said after a visit to American soldiers deployed in the strife-torn southern island of Basilan.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-18 00:00:00
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[Title] => Abus ready to free Gracia Burnham
[Summary] => Abu Sayyaf bandits are mulling the release of American hostage Gracia Burnham ahead of her husband Martin and Filipino nurse Deborah Yap, a government emissary said yesterday.
The unnamed negotiator said a government team was persuading the Abu Sayyaf kidnappers to free all three hostages at the same time, but the captors would want to retain two for use as human shields in case of a military attack.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-14 00:00:00
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[Title] => Spy plane crashes in Zamboanga
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — A US Gnat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) being used in the joint RP-US "Balikatan 02-1" military exercises crashed yesterday morning in a bay outside the city, the US military announced yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-01 00:00:00
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[Title] => US ‘Pave Hawks’ evacuate wounded soldiers in Basilan
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — US military helicopters evacuated three wounded Filipino soldiers after a clash with Muslim extremists on Basilan island that left one Filipino soldier dead, officials said yesterday.
It was the first time that US military advisers in the southern Philippines had a role, even indirect, in the Philippines’ war with Abu Sayyaf guerrillas who have been linked to the international al-Qaeda terrorist network.
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[Title] => Zamboanga folk get US sports equipment
[Summary] => United States forces participating in a joint training exercise with Filipino soldiers in Mindanao donated over 2,000 kilos of sports equipment, toys and relief goods to the Zamboanga City government as part of a social outreach program.
Brig. Gen. Donald Wurster, commander of the US contingent, said the donation was part of a huge shipment of toys and relief goods that arrived recently from the US Kadena air base in Okinawa, Japan.
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[Title] => PAF on piggybacking general: ‘It was just plain Pinoy hospitality’
[Summary] => He was just accepting a genuine gesture of Filipino hospitality.
This was the explanation given by Air Force officials on piggybacking Brig. Gen. Marciano Ilagan, who appalled lawmakers said had placed the entire military in a bad light.
President Arroyo, on the other hand, indicated yesterday that as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces she was not inclined to take any disciplinary action against Ilagan.
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-28 00:00:00
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January 20, 2003 - 12:00am
