From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Phillipines: NPA May Have Fired on U.S. Plane: Philippine Military - Xinhua Rebels May Have Fired on U.S. Plane: Philippine Military ======================================= Xinhuanet 2002-02-01 15:45:34 ����MANILA, February 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Members of a rebel group may have fired upon a U.S. military exercise aircraft in the northern Philippines, Philippine military sources said Friday after the Pentagon revealed one of its planes had been hit by small-arms fire. ����The Philippine Daily Inquirer online news quoted an anonymous military official as saying that the shooting took place in the northern province of Abra where the New People's Army (NPA) rebelsare known to be active. ����However, the official stressed they were still investigating the incident and trying to determine precisely when and where the shooting occurred and what type of firearm was used. ����Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis has announced in Washington that a U.S. Air Force MC-130 came under fire Thursday while conducting a low-level training mission of the joint exercises with the Philippine military in a mountainous area on the biggest Philippine island of Luzon. ����The aircraft, which was hit by at least two bullets, returned safely to Clark Air Base in Luzon and no one was injured in the incident, Davis said. ����The aircraft was taking part in "Balance Piston," a joint U.S.-Philippine military exercise in Luzon, focusing on counter-terrorism, he said. ����Some 660 American soldiers are arriving the southern Philippines to train local troops to hunt down the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping group that allegedly has links with the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. ����The NPA has previously threatened to attack any U.S. soldiers who enter their so-called territories during the joint operations with local troops. ����The NPA has also originally been suspected of killing an American trekker and wounding his German friend in an ambush near Pinatubo volcano in the northern Philippines on Wednesday. ����However, police later said there were conflicting accounts thatthe shooting may have been carried out by a local tribesman with ahomemade rifle for reasons that remain unclear. ����Philippine officials have repeatedly stressed that American soldiers taking part in the joint operations in the south will notengage in actual combat and will only advise and train local troops. ����Philippine Defense Secretary Gen. Angelo Reyes Friday said Filipino commanders would be running the show in the ongoing jointmilitary exercises in the southern Philippines but said the Americans have the right to "defend themselves" in an encounter. ����"The right to self-defense is universal, we're talking here of survival," the Philippine Daily Inquirer online news quoted Reyes as saying. ����"They will not get involved in fighting the Abu Sayyaf," he added. ����The at least six-month military exercise, which entered its first phase Thursday, is aimed at combating the Abu Sayyaf group which is holding two American and one Filipino hostages. Enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/XcSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PEOPLES WAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Peoples_War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A people who want to win independence cannot confine themselves to ordinary methods of warfare. Mass insurrections, revolutionary warfare, guerilla detachments everywhere - such is the only way." F Engels "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." Fidel Castro "There is no revolution without violence. Those who don�t accept violence can cross out the word revolution from their dictionary." Malcolm X "Violence is the universal objective law of all thorough national liberation revolutions." General Vo Nguyen Giap "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao Tse-Tung Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
