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Philippine Army troops from provincial camps board a military truck at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in Metro Manila's Quezon City, Philippines 21 September 2007. Hundreds of additional soldiers were deployed to the Philippine capital amid claims by the armed forces chief-of-staff of a new destabilization plot against the scandal-tainted administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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Filipino members of army rescue team during on going retrieval operation at the vicinity of bomb explosion in Makati City, south of Manila, Philippines on 20 October 2007. Metro Manila were placed under tight watch by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) after Friday's Glorietta mall blast in Makati City that killed at least nine people and injured more than a hundred others.

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A military armored vehicle and a truck carrying Philippine Marines soldiers rush to the front line 09 August 2007 as skirmishes with Islamic militants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) erupt in the hinterlands of Tipo-tipo town in southern Basilan island. Government forces are hunting down MILF rebels who are believed responsible for the 10 July ambush and beheading of the 10 marine soldiers in Basilan. Meanwhile the Philippine military suffered its heaviest casualties in decades of fighting with 26 soldier were killed and 17 wounded during the three days of fighting against Abu Sayyaf rebels in nearby Jolo island, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Bartolome Bacarro

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Philippine Army troops walk beside armoured vehicles as they arrive at Camp Bilal in Poona Piagapo in The Lanao del Norte Province of the southern Philippines on August 28, 2008, the former base of Muslim rebel of Commander Abdurahman Macapaar, also known as Commander Bravo, one of the renegade Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels. Philippine troops overran the rebel Muslim stronghold after weeks of fighting that has left about 150 dead, a military spokesman said. The 100-hectare- (250-acre) training camp borders two remote villages from where Bravo's men had planned deadly August 18 raids against civilian communities. Commander Bravo's headquarters is seen at the centre.

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A convoy of Philippine Marines escorted by an armored vehicle (top) make its way to a military base in the town of Lamitan in Basilan island, the southern Philippines, 01 August 2007. Fresh troops backed by armor and heavy weapons arrived in the island as military prepares action against separatist rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, who are accused of killing 14 Marines and beheading 10 of them during a July 10th ambush in Basilan

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A convoy of Philippine Marines escorted by an armored vehicle pass school students ® while making its way to a military base in the town of Lamitan in Basilan island, the southern Philippines, 01 August 2007. Fresh troops backed by armor and heavy weapons arrived in the island as military prepares action against separatist rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, who are accused of killing 14 Marines and beheading 10 of them during a July 10th ambush in Basilan

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Government troopers patrol around Takepan village in Pikit town, North Cotabato, southern Philippines on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008