Posted on 10/14/2008 1:11:31 PM PDT by LSUfan
MANILA, Oct 12, 2008 (AFP) - Eight soldiers, including an officer, were wounded in intense fighting with Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines Sunday, the military said.
Troops backed by two armoured vehicles clashed with about 60 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas near the town of Mamasapano in the southern island of Mindanao, it said.
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Are they talking about our soldiers?
This is a world war. Anyone who denies this is a useful idiot or working for the enemy.....
...and most vote democrat every election.
Soldiers of the Philippine Republic.
Not likely on Mindanao.
Never ascribe to stupidity or treason that which may be adequately explained by simple cowardice.
Are they beatiful desperate housewifes??? LOL
Isn’t every boiling point around the world deal with Muslims trying to kill either Jews, Christians or other Muslims? The world needs to knock them back to the stone age because they are trying to drag the world back to the 7th Century.
Not entirely ... but the correlation is probably over 70%.
Very likely on Mindanao
But don’t ask me how I know
Don’t find you on either the SOCOM or MI ping lists. Should you be?
It’s hard to knock someone back to the stone-age when they’ve never left it.
Pray for the good. Kill the bad.
This is a world war. Anyone who denies this is a useful idiot or working for the enemy.
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MILF (Islamists) and NPA (commies) have been working together for a long time ... reminds me of O’Bambi here..
P.S. Where exactly is this town? Near Cotabato?
Hundreds of residents left their homes after a group of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters raided a village in Pigkawayan town in Cotabato province on Tuesday.
Pigkawayan Mayor Jun Garseza said 100 families fled their homes after some 200 members of the MILF’s 105th Base Command raided Sitio Hacienda Maria, Barangay Balogo.
The mayor said the MILF fighters under the command of Ameril Umbra Kato fired their guns indiscriminately at the surprised residents of Sitio Hacienda Maria.
A civilian auxiliary member identified as Salvador Brigido was killed by the rebels, the mayor said.
The mayor said the rebels left immediately after the harassment.
A radio dzMM report said members of the Army’s 69th Infantry Battalion were dispatched to augment the Pigkawayan police and secure the area.
Pursuit operations have also been launched by the police and the military against the fleeing rebels.
The attack came even as the police and the military in the province are on full alert due to the hostilities.
Violence in Mindanao sparked after the government’s peace panel and the MILF failed to sign a memorandum of agreement that creates a Bangsamoro homeland.
Meanwhile, military ordnance operatives were able to recover an improvised explosive device alleged planted by MILF members in Datu Piang, Maguindanao.
The bomb was made of 90mm and 81mm mortars with a transceiver radio as a triggering device.
The military said the improvised bomb has been diffused by the ordnance operatives.
as of 10/14/2008 2:33 PM
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