Arroyo taking heat over US help against Abu Sayyaf...
2002-01-16
President Gloria Arroyo has come under fire for the planned deployment of US Special Forces troops in the southern Philippines for joint operations against Abu Sayyaf. Senators demanded an intelligence briefing, and an opposition leader warned that both governments were retracing the circumstances that led to the US military debacle in the Vietnam War. First steps in opposing the operation: bring political pressure to bear to call it off.