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| Southeast Asia |
| MILF kills 7 soldiers in ambush |
| 2003-02-18 |
| Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas killed seven soldiers and wounded 11 in an ambush yesterday morning in Maguindanao. It was the biggest spillover of violence triggered by the weeklong military offensives in Liguasan Marsh, believed to be haven to at least 10,000 MILF fighters and an undetermined number of criminals, including the Pentagon kidnap gang. I forget. What's the difference between a MILF fighter and a criminal? Sketchy military reports said 20 soldiers of the 64th Infantry Brigade in Matanog were waylaid by an undetermined number of MILF fighters in the border community of Sitio Pimbatan. âThey were supposed to go to market,â said Army Maj. Julieto Ando, spokesman of the 6th Infantry Brigade. Caught 'em on a grocery run... In an interview, MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu said the attack was in retaliation for the military attacks in Liguasan Marsh in Buliok in Pikit, North Cotabato. The good thing about being a terrorist is that one-on-one, the terrorist is actually more fearsome than a soldier, because the terrorist wants to kill people. The bad part of being a terrorist is that group to group, well-trained soldiers always win. Hence, they're kicked out of Buliok when they try to stand and fight, but they're able to bump off a few guys going to town for cigarettes and beans in revenge. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |