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                    [Title] => US special forces face complex challenge in Iraq
                    [Summary] => 

US teams of special forces going into Iraq after a three-year gap will face an aggressive insurgency, a splintering military and a precarious political situation as they help Iraqi security forces improve their ability to battle Sunni militants.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-25 04:13:03 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1468725 [AuthorName] => Lolita C. Baldor [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1232581 [Title] => Elite Army units to stop taking anti-malarial drug [Summary] =>

The top doctor for Green Berets and other elite Army commandos has told troops to immediately stop takingmefloquine, an anti-malaria drug found to cause permanent brain damage in rare cases.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-20 06:08:24 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645286 [AuthorName] => Pauline Jelinek [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9340/pjyt.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 607042 [Title] => Dramatic WWII hero stories in History [Summary] =>

History delves into the remarkable and action-packed stories of heroes from WWII to present day.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20100830/most-audacious-rescue-operation.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293662 [Title] => Images of war and the city [Summary] => The news has been a bore lately with nothing but stories on the current political mess in the country. Hello!
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133893 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1236491 [AuthorName] => CITY SENSE By Paulo Alcazaren [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198000 [Title] => 150 Army troopers undergo ‘med evac’ training under ‘Bayanihan’ [Summary] => It’s a jungle out there.

For the past days, 150 Filipino soldiers in Zamboanga City have been going back to basics in the classrooms under the instruction of American Green Berets, whose expertise is guerrilla warfare.

Yesterday, for the second time, they went out to the field and this time got a taste of the real jungle.

With their other comrades observing them, about 50 soldiers were taught how to evacuate a wounded soldier while under fire from supposed hostile forces.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196456 [Title] => Johnny dela Cruz will end up paying the price [Summary] => It is so typical Filipino style – trying to enact such an important law as the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) in the last two minutes. As far back as 1999, the government had had the opportunity to discuss and draft the AMLA. It would have benefited the country more because the requirements then were not yet stringent. [DatePublished] => 2003-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180861 [Title] => Ronnie Poe and the pols [Summary] => For Christmas, all politicians who crave the presidency in 2004 wish Santa would tie a ribbon around Fernando "Ronnie" Poe, Jr. and deliver him to them as a timely vice presidential gift. Should this be impossible on account of politicians failing to be sufficiently good boys – or girls – for 2002 or 2003, their second-best wish is that Poe gets to be noticed by Hollywood and joins the Lord of the Rings as a potential Oscar-award winning blacksmith, a surrealist Filipino panday no less.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133858 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1316794 [AuthorName] => Felipe B. Miranda [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169555 [Title] => RP to try Sayyaf leaders if caught here [Summary] => The Philippines would try five alleged leaders of the brutal Abu Sayyaf group if it catches them, even though they have been indicted by the United States on kidnapping and murder charges, a justice department official said yesterday.

The United States announced the indictments against the men yesterday for a kidnapping spree that led to the death of an American missionary and 19 others in the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163814 [Title] => GIs ring Southcom hospital [Summary] => American troops stood guard over the Camp Navarro hospital at the Southern Command (Southcom) headquarters where Gracia Burnham was taken following yesterday’s bloody rescue that killed her husband Martin and Filipino nurse Ediborah Yap.

Two Huey helicopters airlifted the wounded Gracia and the body of Martin to the Camp Navarro hospital. Late last night, Gracia was airlifted to an undisclosed destination in Metro Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153448 [Title] => Sayyaf rebels give troops the slip [Summary] => ISABELA CITY, Basilan — Abu Sayyaf bandits, who are holding hostage a Filipina nurse and an American couple, again slipped through a tightening military cordon yesterday as government troops lost contact with them at a remote village in Maluso town.

Col. Renato Miranda, 2nd Marine Brigade commander, said it has already been three weeks since the bandits and their hostages left their lair in Barangay Upper Mahayahay in Maluso.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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