Philippine President Gloria Arroyo accom

Philippine President Gloria Arroyo accompanied by Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro (back) pay her last respects before the flag-draped caskets of soldiers killed in fighting against the Abu Sayyaf during a funeral wake at the Philippine Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio suburban Manila, 21 August 2007. Sixteen soldiers were killed in combat when members of the Marine Force Recon Battallion over ran a training camp of the Abu Sayyaf militants in Unkaya Pukan in southern Basilan island 18 August while some 30 rebels were killed or wounded. Arroyo rejected calls 21 August to halt a bloody military offensive against Islamic militants as her government postponed planned peace talks with a separate group of Muslim separatists. AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)