| Philippine Marines take position near the Peninsula Hotel at the financial district of Makati city east of Manila, where military officers under trial for a failed coup attempt are holed up Thursday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) |
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MANILA (7th update, 5:47 p.m.) -- Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Brigadier General Danilo Lim ended the Manila Peninsula crisis Thursday afternoon and peacefully surrendered to government authorities.
Government troops and SWAT teams took over Manila Peninsula, a five-star hotel, on Thursday that dissident military officers commandeered after walking out of their coup trial and demanding that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo resign.
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