US SPECIAL FORCES CAMP IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES, 2002-06-03 (photo)

U.S. Special Forces position themselves outside a house where visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz receives a briefing Monday June 3, 2002 at the Philippine Army's 103rd Infantry Brigade camp on Basilan island in southern Philippines June 3, 2002. Wolfowitz, the highest-ranking U.S. government official to visit Basilan island, arrived here to meet with the U.S. troops and assess what the U.S. can do to help the Philippine military in its fight against global terrorism on Monday. Some 1,200 Americans are scheduled to be in the Philippines until July 31 to train and advise local forces fighting Abu Sayyaf, which is loosely linked to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and are still holding an American couple and a Filipino nurse hostages for over a year now. REUTERS/POOL/Bullit Marquez FMS