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— Deploying some 660 U.S.
troops may help control the
Muslim extremist group that
has plagued the Philippines for
a decade, but the escalating
American involvement will test
ties between Washington and
one of its closest allies in
Southeast Asia.
President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo welcomes the U.S. mili
tary buildup, saying it could help
deliver a fatal blow to the Muslim
extremist group Abu Sayyaf,
which has been linked to Osama
bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
But the military mission
could also further inflame the
country’s Muslim minority and
alienate some of the president's
leftist supporters.
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld said at the Pentagon
that up to 250 U.S. troops were
in the country and “several hun
dred more” would follow. A
“small number" of the
Americans were on the southern
island of Basilan, an area where
Philippine forces have been bat
tling Abu Sayyaf rebels.
Philippine officials say the
six-month joint exercise will
total about 660 troops, including
160 U.S. Army Special Forces,
and some will be allowed to
work in the southern Philippines.
It would essentially be a
new front in the U.S.-led war
on terrorism, but a radically
different mission from
Afghanistan — shifting to a
heavily support-based role
helping a friend rather than
ousting an adversary and cop
ing with tropical jungle instead
of snow and desert.
The aim is to help eradicate
the Abu Sayyaf. But the group
— which now holds two
Americans and a Filipino
hostage — has defied succes
sive governments for 10 years in
the jungle-covered mountains of
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after Todd Beamer, a pas Rec Center,
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place and saying they wet
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