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...demonstrate the improving security situation on Jolo, Sabban takes visitors to his forward operating base in the former terrorist stronghold of Tugas, northwest of Jolo town. Accompanied by more than 50 soldiers in jeeps and armored vehicles, his convoy rumbles through small villages. Not long ago, the base's access road was a dirt track where Abu Sayyaf fighters came and went freely, using the dense rainforest as a retreat or as cover for ambushes; the main road through this part of the island was known as the Boulevard of Death. Now the road to the base is lined with...
...When the funding starts to dry up, they start to get desperate," says Colonel Bill Coultrup, the Jolo-based commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force, which provides military assistance, training and intelligence assistance to Philippine forces. Coultrup's 500 men, who include Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs, are spread throughout the Philippines. Inside a nondescript, windowless building at the task force's Jolo Island base, a half-dozen soldiers are studying laptops. A large screen on the wall shows the video feed from an unmanned drone cruising over potential Abu Sayyaf hideouts in the jungle...
...city, was definitely the work of Abu Sayyaf operatives. "We identified the suspects from composite sketches," he says. While no one was hurt in those attacks, on May 30 a bomb blast ripped through a crowd of Philippine army families waiting outside the Edwin Andrews Military Air Base in the city. The explosion killed two people and injured 21. Police are yet to finalize their investigation into the source of the blast but Abu Sayyaf operatives are the prime suspects despite the bomb containing TNT - not the normal mortar rounds used in previous Abu Sayyaf bombings. Colonel Coultrup suspects such...
...father Cecil, another generously proportioned major leaguer, he's proved them all wrong. Now 24, Prince plays with about 270 lb. packed on to his 5-ft. 11-in. frame, but he also led the National League with 50 home runs last year and earned a start at first base in the 2007 All-Star Game. "Prince knows his body type," Brewers manager Ned Yost told reporters in April. "He's on that [stationary] bike and on that treadmill and on that elliptical trainer, making sure he does everything he can to maintain his fitness...
...approximately 190 prisoners at the base who are never expected to be charged, the ruling could bring a change. One-third of them have already been cleared for release but are being held until a country can be found to accept them. Roughly 50 are considered refugees, meaning they might face torture or other mistreatment if they are returned to their countries of origin. Others are still being held as a possible danger to the U.S., in case they decide to return to the battlefield. Lawyers for detainees in these categories are likely to file cases under the new ruling...