PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has an explanation on why the military can’t immediately defeat kidnapping and terrorist group Abu Sayyaf: He can’t carpet-bomb Sulu and kill innocent people.

Duterte made the statement Saturday night, a day after signaling openness to negotiating a truce with the Islamic State-linked terror group that had kidnapped and beheaded foreigners who were unable to raise ransom money.

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