![An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Brittany B. Gordon on Oct. 15, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Gordon was one of six victims of an Afghan suicide bomber. Steve Ruark/AP null](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121017122507im_/http://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.193339.1350456377!/image/1715008052.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_400/1715008052.jpg)
Afghans deny that killer of 2 US troops was intelligence agent
Afghanistan's security service denied claims by U.S. and local officials who had described the assault as an insider attack and the first of its kind by a member of Afghanistan's elite intelligence service.
00:52 October 17, 2012![Filipino families enjoy relics culled from the Philippine Air Force in a park near Clark International Airport. Long-range plans call for the park and dozens of nearby dilapidated buildings, built by the U.S. Air Force, to be removed for a third runway. Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes null](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121017122507im_/http://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.193314.1350414667!/image/1908243470.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_400/1908243470.jpg)
Philippines plans to make ex-US bases foundation of new air-sea hub
When Mount Pinatubo erupted in June 1991, a typhoon drenched the massive ash plume, spawning a gray sludge that swamped much of the Philippines’ northernmost island, Luzon.
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