Filipino marines roll through Jolo City on a mission to deliver textbooks, summer 2006.
Photo: Antonin Kratochvil
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007
Welcome to the tropical Philippine island of Jolo, where life is like a Corona ad—coconut trees, white-sand beaches, bathtub-warm seas. Except those guys in the water are U.S. Green Berets, and those kids on dirt bikes are jihadists known for kidnapping Western tourists. Even stranger? On this front, at least, America seems to be winning.
By: JOHN FALK
This is a excellent story from Outside in 2007.
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