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Article: Arroyo: Those opposed to military exercise are `Abu Sayyaf lovers'

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Dateline: MANILA, Philippines Opponents of a U.S. military training exercise aimed at helping local forces wipe out a Muslim extremist group are un-Filipino and "Abu Sayyaf lovers," President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Friday.

About 660 U.S. troops, including 160 from the Special Forces, will be involved in the Balikatan, or "shoulder to shoulder," exercise in the southern Philippines.

The Special Forces troops will be deployed with front-line Filipino soldiers on Basilan island where the Abu Sayyaf, which has been linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, is holding an American Christian missionary couple and a Filipino nurse. The ...

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