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"In the most overt U.S. military campaign against al Qaeda outside Afghanistan, Special Forces officers have visited the southern Philippines in recent weeks to assess efforts to target the rebels. By next month, at least 100 Special Forces soldiers are slated to travel here to train Philippine troops in counterterrorism. U.S. and Philippine officials say some U.S. advisers, who will carry weapons for self-defense, will coach Philippine soldiers pursuing the Abu Sayyaf on Basilan island."
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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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