ZAMBOANGA: US and Filipino troops formally launched new anti-terrorism exercises yesterday as the Philippines flatly rejected any combat role for the Americans in fighting Abu Sayyaf rebels linked to al-Qaeda.
Soldiers armed with assault rifles and army snipers atop a three-storey house guarded a military camp in Zamboanga, where the two militaries vowed to crush the Abu Sayyaf guerillas.
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