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                    [ArticleID] => 654049
                    [Title] => 5 killed as tornado hits Sulu village
                    [Summary] => 

At least five villagers, including a one-year-old infant, were killed while nearly 20 people sustained injuries when a tornado struck a village in Jolo, Sulu Thursday, authorities said.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 558336 [Title] => RP new armed forces chief calls for stronger attack on Abu Sayyaf rebels [Summary] =>

Government troops in southern Philippine province of Sulu were ordered to enhance attacks on dwindling al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf and its Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) cohorts in the next two months.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-16 21:15:55 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 556820 [Title] => AFP on heightened alert for possible sympathy attacks [Summary] =>

Government forces are on heightened alert to avert possible sympathy attacks from the Abu Sayyaf, a group linked with the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), following the death of Dulmatin, JI’s alleged master bomb maker, in a police raid in Indonesia last Tuesday.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 523025 [Title] => Body of beheaded principal recovered [Summary] =>

Police and local officials recovered the headless remains of an abducted school principal who was beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf in Patikul, Sulu, according to officials.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 517726 [Title] => Grenade explosion rocks Jolo cathedral [Summary] =>

A grenade exploded outside the Mt. Carmel Cathedral in downtown Jolo in Sulu shortly before noon yesterday, but no one was injured, the military said.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 514135 [Title] => 3 Abu utas sa encounter [Summary] =>

Tatlong armadong kalalakihan na sinasabing mga ban­didong Abu Sayyaf ang iniulat na napaslang habang limang sundalo naman ang nasugatan sa naganap na panibagong sagupan sa liblib na bahagi ng Barangay Masjid Bayle sa bayan ng Kalingalang Kaluang, Sulu kamakalawa ng hapon.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 512023 [Title] => Strong quake hits Sulu Sea [Summary] =>

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the Sulu Sea early yesterday morning, prompting a tsunami alert in the island provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 506095 [Title] => 'No indiscriminate firing by US soldiers in Jolo' [Summary] =>

A US military commander has clarified that American troops did not fire their guns indiscriminately after a grenade attack at the pier of Jolo in Sulu where they were retrieving logistic supplies last Monday night.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 490441 [Title] => Task Force Comet has new chief [Summary] =>

The anti-terror unit of Joint Task Force Comet, which led the degrading of the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants in Sulu province, has its new commander effective Sunday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 487231 [Title] => Teodoro wants Sulu vice governor probed [Summary] =>

Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro is requesting the Department of Justice to investigate Sulu Vice Gov. Nur-Ana “Lady Ann” Sahidulla after she admitted that she gave money to the Abu Sayyaf during negotiations for the release of Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni in Indanan, Sulu last Sunday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1371238 [AuthorName] => James Mananghaya [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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