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                    [Title] => Abaya takes over AFP today
                    [Summary] => Military Southern Command (Southcom) chief Lt. Gen. Narciso Abaya today officially becomes the 32nd chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.


Abaya will take over the helm of the AFP from Gen. Dionisio Santiago, who retires today on reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.

Maj. Gen. Roy Kyamko, chief of the AFP’s Southern Luzon Command, replaces Abaya at Southcom.

Interviewed in Zamboanga City, Abaya said he would focus the AFP in waging war against terrorism.
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Military officials believe that there was still an undetermined number of Abu Sayyaf members who were killed in the battle, but their bodies were retrieved by the fleeing members of the bandit group.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 179773 [Title] => Mindanao on heightened alert over bombings in Indonesia [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) – The government beefed up security yesterday at government installations in violence-plagued Mindanao following a deadly bomb attack on the Indonesian island resort of Bali that killed at least 187 people, the military said.

Military Southern Command spokesman Lt. Col. Fredesvindo Covarrubias said the local intelligence community was on guard for possible attacks by Abu Sayyaf Muslim rebels, linked by Washington and Manila to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
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The firefight occurred at 5:30 p.m. in Jolo town proper right in front of the municipal hall, Maj. Gen. Glicerio Sua, Western Mindanao military commander and Task Force Comet head, said.
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                    [Title] => Abaya takes over AFP today
                    [Summary] => Military Southern Command (Southcom) chief Lt. Gen. Narciso Abaya today officially becomes the 32nd chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.


Abaya will take over the helm of the AFP from Gen. Dionisio Santiago, who retires today on reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.

Maj. Gen. Roy Kyamko, chief of the AFP’s Southern Luzon Command, replaces Abaya at Southcom.

Interviewed in Zamboanga City, Abaya said he would focus the AFP in waging war against terrorism.
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Military officials believe that there was still an undetermined number of Abu Sayyaf members who were killed in the battle, but their bodies were retrieved by the fleeing members of the bandit group.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 179773 [Title] => Mindanao on heightened alert over bombings in Indonesia [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) – The government beefed up security yesterday at government installations in violence-plagued Mindanao following a deadly bomb attack on the Indonesian island resort of Bali that killed at least 187 people, the military said.

Military Southern Command spokesman Lt. Col. Fredesvindo Covarrubias said the local intelligence community was on guard for possible attacks by Abu Sayyaf Muslim rebels, linked by Washington and Manila to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
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The firefight occurred at 5:30 p.m. in Jolo town proper right in front of the municipal hall, Maj. Gen. Glicerio Sua, Western Mindanao military commander and Task Force Comet head, said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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