3 soldiers die, 18 hurt in NPA ambush (tags)
Three soldiers were killed while at least 18 others were wounded after New People’s Army rebels ambushed a military convoy in North Cotabato early Monday. Maj. Lyndon Paniza, commander of the 39th Infantry Battalion, said the attack happened at past 5 a.m. in Barangay Ilustre in President Roxas town. He said the soldiers,
ANOTHER BATALLION SENT TO BASILAN (tags)
-The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is deploying another Marine battalion in Basilan to augment government forces massing up in the province in preparation for the hunt for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels behind the June 10 ambush. “We will be deploying another Marine battalion to the area, on top of the earlier deployment of a Marine battalion from Sulu to Basilan,” AFP Public Information Office chief Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro said. He said the deployment of additional troops is in anticipation of a bigger force against military operations following “punitive actions against the suspects.”
Gov’t troops clash with Silay attackers (tags)
rmy troopers clashed yesterday with a group of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels believed responsible for the attack on the construction site of an international airport in Silay City in Negros Occidental last Sunday.
U.K. occupation soldier killed in Iraq (tags)
As L.A. Indymedia continues to fawn over Sherman Austin and has little else to report on... the war in Iraq grinds on. A large Iraqi crowd holds a piece of a U.S. occupation trooper's clothing in a cheer after a U.S. military convoy was attacked by an Improvised Explosive Device Thursday, Aug. 28, 2003, in Fallujah. U.S. occupation military reports that four soldiers were injured in the attack. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)
Nepal News, Hollyweird, Journo killed by IDF (tags)
No peace for Nepal as King balks...students continue strike; Hollywood liberal? IDF kills AP cameraman