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Southeast Asia
Philippine troops battle Muslim rebels
2012-02-04
Philippine troops battled Islamic extremists on a remote southern island on Friday where a day earlier three of the region's senior terror suspects were killed in a US-backed air strike.

When soldiers who approached the bombed area on the outskirts of a small village on Jolo island after the raid, they faced dogged resistance from surviving terrorists militants. The troops had moved into the scene of the strike in an effort to retrieve the bodies of the three top terrorists militants who were killed, as well as to take on the survivors of ThursdayÂ’s aerial assault.
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