“‘There were no US service member casualties,’ Kurt Hoyer, US Embassy spokesman said in a text message to The Manila Times. Hoyer was reacting to a report of a human rights group that an American serviceman was among the casualties in the January 25 clash between members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.”
Source: US denies hand in deadly Philippines mission – Pacific – Stripes
