At least 53 dead in major battle in Philippine south

2009/08/13 06:13:46 @Reuters: International News

MANILA (Reuters) - A battle pitting Philippine troops against Muslim guerrillas on a remote southern island killed at least 53 people, the military said on Thursday, but analysts said the clash is unlikely to have sidelined the rebels. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=15VyhKI73uM:rtNDUBAbBEA:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=15VyhKI73uM:rtNDUBAbBEA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=15VyhKI73uM:rtNDUBAbBEA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=15VyhKI73uM:rtNDUBAbBEA:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=15VyhKI73uM:rtNDUBAbBEA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/15VyhKI73uM" height="1" width="1"/
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