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[Title] => Freed Indon hostages turned over to envoy, recount ordeal
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA City — Two Indonesian hostages rescued by Filipino troops from Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels said yesterday they nearly lost hope of ever regaining their freedom during their three-month long captivity.
Yamin Labaso and Erikson Hutagaol were turned over yesterday to Indonesian officials in the southern Philippines. They were rescued last weekend after elite forces stormed an Abu Sayyaf lair in the southern island of Jolo.
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[Title] => Sayyaf demands $68,100 for hostages
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA (AFP) — The Philippines’ Muslim Abu Sayyaf group is demanding $68,100 (roughly P3.7 million) for the release of two Malaysians and an Indonesian it has kidnapped, a military source said yesterday.
The Abu Sayyaf made the demand in telephone calls to the employers of the men, who were abducted from a barge near Lingkian island off the Malaysian state of Sabah on April 11, said the source, who asked to not be identified.
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[Title] => Soldier killed in Jolo blast
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — A homemade bomb exploded as it was being disarmed outside an airport in Jolo, Sulu, yesterday, killing a soldier and wounding another, the military said.
Civilians found the improvised explosive device concealed in a cardboard box that had been left near a perimeter fence of the Jolo airport. Troops were alerted and tried to disarm it, but it exploded, killing one.
A second bomb was found on a roadside also near the airport but was safely detonated, said Lt. col. Renoir Pascua, information chief of the military’s Southern Command.
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[Title] => Police arrest Janjalani aide in Zamboanga
[Summary] => Army intelligence agents have arrested a man believed to be a right-hand man of the Muslim Abu Sayyaf gang’s overall leader, the military said yesterday.
Alnajar Tampakan was apprehended on Saturday in Zamboanga City following surveillance operations, army spokesman Lt. Col. Joselito Kakilala said.
The suspect was apparently left behind by Kaddafy Janjalani’s group when they fled to the main southern island of Mindanao after eluding pursuing troops near the Zamboanga peninsula early this month.
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[Title] => RP, US agree to crush Abus ‘once and for all’
[Summary] => WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States and the Philippines agreed yesterday on a new joint military effort to stamp out the Muslim Abu Sayyaf group "once and for all."
President George W. Bush also offered President Arroyo $30 million in new aid for training and equipping the Philippine armed forces, according to a joint statement issued after their talks during a White House state visit.
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[Title] => 6 Abus killed in separate Sulu clashes
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — At least six Muslim Abu Sayyaf kidnappers have been killed in clashes while a grenade attack killed a local official in the strife-torn southern Philippines, the military said yesterday.
Two Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed in a high seas clash with government forces on Monday off the island of Basilan, provincial spokesman Cris Puno said. A soldier and a civilian volunteer accompanying the troops were also wounded.
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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.
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[Title] => ‘Manila to get $78.6 M in military aid’
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — The United States has earmarked about $78.65 million in military assistance for the Philippines this year, the largest sum allocated to an Asian country so far – a US military spokesman said here yesterday.
Part of the funds would go towards purchasing US-made weapons, service and training while most of the remainder would be used to buy blankets, tents, radios, uniforms, food and medicine, said Capt. Steve Wulmann, a spokesman for US troops in the southern Philippines.
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[Title] => Anti-terror bill certified despite Left’s warnings
[Summary] => President Arroyo has certified a proposed anti-terrorism law as "urgent," her spokesman said yesterday, despite warnings from rights groups that it could be unconstitutional.
Presidential Spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao said Mrs. Arroyo’s recommendation would help speed up the passage of the anti-terror law, and showed the government was firm in its resolve to fight terrorists.
"Terrorism respects neither race nor religion. It knows no boundaries. It follows no laws and respects no constitution," Tiglao said in a statement.
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[Title] => Chance of US strike vs Iraq ‘in the next 4 months’ increases
[Summary] => The chance that the United States will launch a military strike against Iraq in the next four months is increasing, with President George W. Bush intent on seeing strongman Saddam Hussein ousted from power, a former US diplomat said yesterday.
US security concerns since the Sept. 11 attacks have shifted to fears of a likely attack by Iraq using weapons of mass destruction, said Stephen Bosworth, Washington’s envoy to Manila from 1984 to 1987.
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MUSLIM ABU SAYYAF
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[Title] => Freed Indon hostages turned over to envoy, recount ordeal
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Yamin Labaso and Erikson Hutagaol were turned over yesterday to Indonesian officials in the southern Philippines. They were rescued last weekend after elite forces stormed an Abu Sayyaf lair in the southern island of Jolo.
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[Title] => Sayyaf demands $68,100 for hostages
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA (AFP) — The Philippines’ Muslim Abu Sayyaf group is demanding $68,100 (roughly P3.7 million) for the release of two Malaysians and an Indonesian it has kidnapped, a military source said yesterday.
The Abu Sayyaf made the demand in telephone calls to the employers of the men, who were abducted from a barge near Lingkian island off the Malaysian state of Sabah on April 11, said the source, who asked to not be identified.
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[Title] => Soldier killed in Jolo blast
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — A homemade bomb exploded as it was being disarmed outside an airport in Jolo, Sulu, yesterday, killing a soldier and wounding another, the military said.
Civilians found the improvised explosive device concealed in a cardboard box that had been left near a perimeter fence of the Jolo airport. Troops were alerted and tried to disarm it, but it exploded, killing one.
A second bomb was found on a roadside also near the airport but was safely detonated, said Lt. col. Renoir Pascua, information chief of the military’s Southern Command.
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[Title] => Police arrest Janjalani aide in Zamboanga
[Summary] => Army intelligence agents have arrested a man believed to be a right-hand man of the Muslim Abu Sayyaf gang’s overall leader, the military said yesterday.
Alnajar Tampakan was apprehended on Saturday in Zamboanga City following surveillance operations, army spokesman Lt. Col. Joselito Kakilala said.
The suspect was apparently left behind by Kaddafy Janjalani’s group when they fled to the main southern island of Mindanao after eluding pursuing troops near the Zamboanga peninsula early this month.
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[Title] => RP, US agree to crush Abus ‘once and for all’
[Summary] => WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States and the Philippines agreed yesterday on a new joint military effort to stamp out the Muslim Abu Sayyaf group "once and for all."
President George W. Bush also offered President Arroyo $30 million in new aid for training and equipping the Philippine armed forces, according to a joint statement issued after their talks during a White House state visit.
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[Title] => 6 Abus killed in separate Sulu clashes
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — At least six Muslim Abu Sayyaf kidnappers have been killed in clashes while a grenade attack killed a local official in the strife-torn southern Philippines, the military said yesterday.
Two Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed in a high seas clash with government forces on Monday off the island of Basilan, provincial spokesman Cris Puno said. A soldier and a civilian volunteer accompanying the troops were also wounded.
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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.
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[Title] => ‘Manila to get $78.6 M in military aid’
[Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY (AFP) — The United States has earmarked about $78.65 million in military assistance for the Philippines this year, the largest sum allocated to an Asian country so far – a US military spokesman said here yesterday.
Part of the funds would go towards purchasing US-made weapons, service and training while most of the remainder would be used to buy blankets, tents, radios, uniforms, food and medicine, said Capt. Steve Wulmann, a spokesman for US troops in the southern Philippines.
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[Title] => Anti-terror bill certified despite Left’s warnings
[Summary] => President Arroyo has certified a proposed anti-terrorism law as "urgent," her spokesman said yesterday, despite warnings from rights groups that it could be unconstitutional.
Presidential Spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao said Mrs. Arroyo’s recommendation would help speed up the passage of the anti-terror law, and showed the government was firm in its resolve to fight terrorists.
"Terrorism respects neither race nor religion. It knows no boundaries. It follows no laws and respects no constitution," Tiglao said in a statement.
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[Summary] => The chance that the United States will launch a military strike against Iraq in the next four months is increasing, with President George W. Bush intent on seeing strongman Saddam Hussein ousted from power, a former US diplomat said yesterday.
US security concerns since the Sept. 11 attacks have shifted to fears of a likely attack by Iraq using weapons of mass destruction, said Stephen Bosworth, Washington’s envoy to Manila from 1984 to 1987.
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