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Combat Ready

The streets of Isabela City are not like Baghdad's - roadside bombs don't rip through the floors of humvees - nor do masked insurgents take pot shots at foreign soldiers from bullet-riddled buildings. There are, however, American servicemen here - instructors from their Camp Pendleton based Marine Special Operations Command. They've been helping Filipino soldiers fight al-Qaeda linked terrorists who have made the southern Philippine islands of Basilan and Jolo hotbeds of extremist activity over the last 15 years.
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