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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 (Philippines)
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| Two wounded suspected Abu Sayyaf prisoners come out after police assault of the Camp Bagong Diwa prison in Taguig Tuesday. (AP photo) |
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MANILA -- A comrade of the three Abu Sayyaf leaders who were among the 22 detainees killed when police stormed Tuesday a maximum-security jail in Manila to retake the facility from Muslim militants warned of retaliation from the group.
Even as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo congratulated police for storming the detention center in Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, Taguig and ending a 29-hour uprising led by the country's most hardened terrorists, an Abu Sayyaf leader chillingly warned of repercussions.
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