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Thursday, May 29, 2008

 

Govt troops shell MILF camps in Basilan

Rebels’ chief peace negotiator Iqbal says these attacks totally disregarded the ceasefire agreement

BASILAN: Government forces shelled Wednesday suspected encampments of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels on Basilan island.

“Military forces shelled our positions in the towns of Tipo-Tipo and Ungkaya Pukan, firing at least fifty rounds of howitzer canons. We have no reports of casualties, but the MILF is more worried that civilians would be hit by these indiscriminate attacks by soldiers,” Mohagher Iqbal, chief MILF peace negotiator, told The Manila Times.

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SUBIC BAY Freeport: The Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group-Task Force Subic (PASG-TFS) and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) seized some 770 kilos of high-grade shabu with an estimated value of P4.62 billion on Tuesday.

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BALANGA City, Bataan: Police arrested Monday night a mother allegedly involved in the kidnapping of her own child, along with two others, and recovered P450,000 out of the P500,000 ransom money paid by the suspect’s mother-in-law.

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