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...Ipil, it is far from being a disciplined precision force. Cervantes, the fisherman, says the guerrillas were way off course when they spotted his lights. "They kept asking where Dos Palmas was," he says. The sky was getting light when they finally arrived at 5 a.m. on tiny Arreceffi island. Disarming the security guards, the gunmen went straight for the cabanas on stilts over the water, which go for $720 per couple for two nights. They kicked down the doors and marched 20 guests out at gunpoint, including an eight-year-old Filipino boy and an American missionary couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossfire | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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