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| Southeast Asia |
| Philippine police kill suspected Muslim militant |
| 2007-02-01 |
| Philippine security forces killed a suspected Muslim militant and arrested two others in a dawn raid east of Manila on Thursday, police said. The head of the navy told Reuters the operation might have thwarted possible attacks in Manila after marines and police found plastic explosives, bomb parts and grenades in a house in Rizal province about 30 km east of the capital. "Our informants tipped us off about the presence of suspected bombers in the area," Vice-Admiral Rogelio Calunsag said. "We may have foiled attacks in the capital." Five militants, believed to belong to a renegade faction of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), escaped from the house in Rizal. Police had earlier raided a house in the eastern part of Manila, where they arrested another suspected rebel. MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu told a local radio station that the man killed in the raid was not a member of their organisation. "We are focused on the peace talks. We are about to resume negotiations so why would we create trouble." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Lipless Eid and Bagdad Bob went to the same school of Public Relations. Dan Rather was the keynote speaker at their graduation. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2007-02-01 09:33 |