Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte holds up a photo and cites accounts of US troops who killed Muslims during the US occupation of the Philippines 100 years ago. (AFP photo)MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte insisted Monday that he snubbed US leader Barack Obama and not the other way around on the eve of their scheduled summit in Laos last week. He also ordered US troops to leave the the southern Philippines, and blamed America for inflaming Muslim insurgencies in the region. 'War on drugs' escalates again: Duterte unleashes the hounds of hell"You cannot just (lecture) a president of a sovereign state. In 2002, the US military deployed troops to train, advise and provide intelligence and weapons to Filipino troops battling al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines.

Source: Bangkok Post September 12, 2016 18:35 UTC