Monday, December 8, 2008

In the course of military operations in the Philippines killed 10 people.

In fighting in the Philippines killed at least ten people, Reuters reported on Monday, 8 December. Clashes between government troops and Islamic militants occurred on Sunday in the southern province of Basilan.
According to the agency representative of the military country on Sunday in the province of Basilan Marines occupied the mountain positions to block the routes on which the radical Islamist organization, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front "(MILF) delivered munitions. Also on these routes carrying militants seized hostages. Once the positions were occupied, there was fighting, in which, according to preliminary data, the five infantrymen were killed and five militants.
Tbilisi, that OV-10 bomber that has government troops supported by air, was hit Islamists, but the crew managed to land the plane at the airport in the neighboring province of Zamboanga.
"Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Moro - a group of Filipino people professing Islam) led an armed struggle against the Philippine government for the past 40 years. The purpose of the organization - the creation of an Islamic state in the south. A total during the conflict killed more than 120 thousand people.

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