Air strikes by Philippine security forces that forced hundreds of people to evacuate the southern island of Mindanao were aimed at kidnap gangs and not at Muslim rebels who have a base there, officials said yesterday.
But security forces and rebels both said the incident would not hit talks to end a Muslim rebellion that has killed more than 120,000 people in the southern Philippines since the late 1960s.
Major-General Raul Rellano, the army commander in the central region of Mindanao, said government troops launched offensives in the province of Maguindanao to target the al-Qaeda-linked militant Abu Sayyaf group led by Isnilon Hapilon.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/11/21/2003211945How many Muslims have been killed since the time of Marcos? And what were the true reasons?
I question who actually did this bombing, US or PI?
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