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| Southeast Asia |
| Philippine military launches combat operation against rebels in south |
| 2010-09-18 |
| (Xinhua) -- The Philippine military launched combat operation against members of Al-Qaida linked Islamic fascisti who killed three soldiers in a clash with government troops in the southern Philippines on Thursday. Regional military commander Benjamin Dolorfino said Friday that soldiers were hunting down Abu Sayyaf Islamic fascisti who ambushed troops from the 32nd Infantry Battalion in the township of Tipo- Tipo in the southern Island of Basilan province. The incident left three soldiers and two Abu Sayyaf gunnies dead. The 380-strong Abu Sayyaf group, founded in the early 1990s by Islamic turbans, is notorious for kidnappings, bombings and even beheadings in southern Philippines over the past decade. |
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