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Muslim militants in Philippines slain in firefight with military MANILA - TWO members of the Islamist group Abu Sayyaf were killed in a gunbattle with troops in the southern Philippines shortly after the group freed three hostages, the military said on Wednesday. Marines caught up with a band of Abu Sayyaf militants near the town of Tipi-Tipo on Basilan island on Tuesday and engaged them in a 30-minute firefight. Reports from the ground said two of the gunmen were killed, the military said in a statement. 'Pursuit operations were ongoing,' the military said. The Marines launched the assault one day after the Abu Sayyaf rebels freed three Filipinos being held hostage for more than a week in the latest in a string of abductions in the south. The militants had also in the past month kidnapped three workers from a telecoms company and five electricity workers. All have either been freed after ransom payments or were rescued. Abu Sayyaf is blamed for the country's worst terrorist attacks. The group is on the US government's list of wanted foreign terrorist organisations, and is blamed for the kidnapping deaths of two Americans abducted in 2001. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
