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Philippines: CIA doc reveals Aquino’s 1989 request for US airstrikes on rebels
By Asian Correspondent Staff | 19th January 2017   |

THE Philippine government under then President Corazon ‘Cory’ Aquino requested military assistance from the US during a coup attempt to oust her in 1989, but Washington refused fearing collateral damage, according to a recently declassified intelligence report.

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