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Originally Posted by skylinedrive
The town, in the hilly interior of Jolo, has been a stronghold of the Muslim insurgent group Abu Sayyaf.
The army said last week that it had captured the town after heavy fighting.
Abu Sayyaf is one of the smallest but deadliest Islamist militant groups in the largely Roman Catholic Philippines.
Established in the early 1990s, it has kidnapped dozens of foreign aid workers, missionaries and tourists in the south and was blamed for the country's worst terrorist strike, the bombing of a ferry in 2004 that killed more than 100 people.
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Rest-In-Peace Soldiers.
May your courage and sacrifice never be forgotten.
Holly