MANILA: Separatist guerillas warned yesterday that deploying US combat trainers near their southern Philippine strongholds could draw the visiting forces into local clashes, resulting in American casualties.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said on Friday she has made a pretty final decision to change the venue of a planned counter-terrorism exercise involving US and Filipino troops from the violent southern island of Jolo because of public opposition there.
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