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| Malaysian Air Force's F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets. |
MANILA — Malaysia used airstrikes and mobilized
thousands of troops on Tuesday to try to put an end to a monthlong quixotic
incursion by a band of gunmen from the Philippines seeking to reclaim part of Borneo Island
for a defunct sultanate.
Three F-18 fighter jets and five Hawk ground-attack
aircraft bombed and strafed the estimated 200 Filipino gunmen holed up near the
small northeastern Malaysian village of Kampung Taduo, Defense Minister Ahmad
Zahid of Malaysia said on Tuesday.
The airstrikes were followed by a ground assault that
killed an undetermined number of the Filipino gunmen but caused no Malaysian
casualties, the defense minister said.








