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Bayan: AFP setting stage for Metro comeback in time for terror law implementation

MANILA — The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today assailed the Armed Forces of the Philippines for ?manufacturing popular clamor for the return of troop deployment in Metro Manila.?

The statement came in the wake of announcements by the Armed Forces of the Philippines that 19 baranggay chairmen allegedly want the troops back in their communities. The AFP revealed an alleged petition from community leaders asking that troops be brought back for peace and order.
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Philippines: Police, not troops, should keep peace in Manila barangays

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today urged the Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP) to scrap its plan to redeploy
soldiers to depressed barangays in Metro Manila now
that the mid-term elections are over.
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Philippines: Pimentel asks Arroyo to stop playing with legal holidays

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today called for an end to
Malaca?ang?s distasteful practice of moving important
legal holidays to other days to give the people a long
weekend in line with the administration?s so called
holiday economics.
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