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| | NPAs ATTACK LOGGING AREA, BURN 20 TRUCKS IN ISABELA |
 | | Juvenal Narcise, commander of the Army’s 702nd Infantry Brigade, said the rebels burned 20 trucks, a bulldozer, a forklift and a 4x4 pick-up truck belonging to the Philippine Aggregates Timber Export Co. (Pateco). |
 | | Narcise said the vehicles were on their way to the company’s logging concession on Mount Dinapigue at the boundary of Isabela, Quirino and Aurora provinces when they were accosted by the rebels at an NPA checkpoint at around 4 p.m. |
 | | Narcise said it was the second time that the NPA had vandalized a logging firm’s property since Nov. 15 when a band of about 50 NPA rebels burned power houses, generators and a cargo vessel belonging to the Diapitan Resources Development Corp. (DRDC), a Pateco subsidiary in Dilasag, Aurora. |
| www.newsflash.org /2002/11/ht/ht003018.htm (703 words) |
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