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The Philippines began withdrawing its 51-man contingent of troops in Iraq in an effort to save the life of Angelo de la Cruz, a truck driver abducted outside Fallujah by terrorists.

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* The Philippines began withdrawing its 51-man contingent of troops in Iraq in an effort to save the life of Angelo de la Cruz, a truck driver abducted outside Fallujah by terrorists. It's not as if the Filipinos don't know better: They face a merciless jihadist insurgency in the Muslim areas of their own southern islands. The Filipinos also undoubtedly know of Rudyard Kipling, who addressed his ...

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