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                    [Title] => Stalled Chinese warship taken off disputed shoal
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Chinese navy ships safely removed one of the country's warships today from a disputed shoal off the western Philippines where it had run aground while on a security patrol and sparked fears of another maritime standoff in the South China Sea.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-15 13:00:27 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360540 [Title] => Air Force deploys ‘forward air controllers’ vs Sayyaf, JI [Summary] => PANAMAO, Sulu — Government troops gained the upper hand in the offensive against the Abu Sayyaf through the help of US troops training Filipino soldiers how to pick out their targets from aboard roving helicopters.

The tactic proved to be a nightmare for the bandits who are forced to run constantly from the numerically superior government troops chasing them on the ground.

US forces, through its Special Warfare Team (SWAT), have trained Filipino snipers from the Army’s 9th Tactical Operation Group (TOG) to pick out moving targets even at night.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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