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It’s not called basing but access. It’s a different approach to a different type of war. The approach is so new even our Constitution lacks specific provisions to guide policy-makers on the Philippines’ response. 


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                    [Title] => US eyes missile strike versus SEA terrorists
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"We will use whatever is necessary and legal to attack this (terrorist) threat, to interdict it and eliminate it," Francis Taylor, the US State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, told a media briefing at the US Embassy in Manila.
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                    [Title] => Gracia flies home today
                    [Summary] => Today she goes home.


Missionary Gracia Burnham, who was held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf for over one year, will leave this morning for the United States to be reunited with her three children and the rest of her family.


The US Embassy said yesterday that Gracia will make a departure statement at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) at 6:30 a.m. today before she boards the plane that will take her home to Wichita, Kansas.


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                    [Title] => Arroyo sees more RP-US war games
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo said yesterday there will be more joint military counter-terrorism exercises between the Philippines and the United States that would follow the ongoing Balikatan war games, which is scheduled to end on July 31.


Speaking for the first time on the post-Balikatan scenario, Mrs. Arroyo said the additional exercises are part of the country’s commitment in the fight against terrorism.


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                    [Title] => After a battle, even armchair commandos are ‘smarter’ than the men who fought and bled there
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Come again?


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                    [Title] => ‘Kitty Hawk miles and miles away’
                    [Summary] => The Pentagon has no plans of deploying the American aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Sulu Sea to be used in joint anti-terrorism exercises in Mindanao, US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday.


"The Kitty Hawk is hundreds, probably thousands of miles away. We have no thoughts whatsoever of bringing it here," Wolfowitz told reporters in a news conference in Makati City.


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                    [Title] => US open to longer term military presence in RP — Wolfowitz
                    [Summary] => US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday Washington was open to the idea of keeping American troops in the Philippines after its anti-terror operation in the South ends next month. 


US President George W. Bush has emphasized that the war against terrorism is going to be a long process, Wolfowitz said in Manila as he prepared to fly to Basilan island, the focus of the joint US-Filipino military campaign against Abu Sayyaf guerrillas. 


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                    [Title] => Kano sa Basilan palawigin, hirit ng villagers
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                    [Title] => 2 Pave Hawk choppers clash with Sayyaf rebels in Basilan
                    [Summary] => Two US Pave Hawk helicopters reportedly traded gunfire with suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels on Basilan late Monday, but a spokesman of the US forces involved in an ongoing joint military training exercise in the island province dismissed the incident as part of the maneuvers.


Col. Alexander Aleo, commander of the Philippine Army’s 103rd Infantry Battalion, said there were no immediate reports of casualties on either side.


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DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY PAUL WOLFOWITZ

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Come again?


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Access, not bases

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | June 4, 2003 - 12:00am

We need not worry about a "temporary basing" arrangement for US troops in the Philippines, as planned by US officials. Since President Arroyo committed the nation to the US-led war on terror, such an arrangement...

Opinion

US eyes missile strike versus SEA terrorists

November 10, 2002 - 12:00am

A controversial CIA-led missile strike which killed six suspected al-Qaeda members in Yemen was "legal and necessary" and may be emulated in Southeast Asia to crush terror groups, a top US counter-terrorism...

Headlines

Gracia flies home today

By Pia Lee-Brago | June 10, 2002 - 12:00am

Today she goes home. Missionary Gracia Burnham, who was held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf for over one year, will leave this morning for the United States to be reunited with her three children and the rest of her...

Headlines

Arroyo sees more RP-US war games

By Paolo Romero | June 10, 2002 - 12:00am

President Arroyo said yesterday there will be more joint military counter-terrorism exercises between the Philippines and the United States that would follow the ongoing Balikatan war games, which is scheduled to...

Headlines

After a battle, even armchair commandos are ‘smarter’ than the men who fought and bled there

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | June 9, 2002 - 12:00am

After the firefight in Zamboanga del Norte which left two of the three hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf dead, with "only one" rescued, one local television commentator, safe enough in his natty business...

Opinion

‘Kitty Hawk miles and miles away’

By Pia Lee-Brago | June 4, 2002 - 12:00am

The Pentagon has no plans of deploying the American aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Sulu Sea to be used in joint anti-terrorism exercises in Mindanao, US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday. "The...

Headlines

US open to longer term military presence in RP — Wolfowitz

June 4, 2002 - 12:00am

US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday Washington was open to the idea of keeping American troops in the Philippines after its anti-terror operation in the South ends next month. US President...

Headlines

Kano sa Basilan palawigin, hirit ng villagers

June 3, 2002 - 12:00am

LAMITAN, Basilan – Dahil sa nakatakdang paglisan ng mga tropang Kano sa bansa sa susunod na buwan, umapela ang mga residente sa bayang ito kay Pangulong Gloria Macapagal Arroyo na palawigin pa ang pananatili...

Bansa

2 Pave Hawk choppers clash with Sayyaf rebels in Basilan

By Roel Pareño | May 30, 2002 - 12:00am

Two US Pave Hawk helicopters reportedly traded gunfire with suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels on Basilan late Monday, but a spokesman of the US forces involved in an ongoing joint military training exercise in the island...

Headlines