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Filipino Muslims protest police raid on Islamic centre
 MANILA: Hundreds of Filipino Muslims and their Christian supporters marched near the presidential palace on Friday to protest a police raid on an Islamic center, where authorities claimed terror suspects were hiding. Seventeen people were taken into custody during last week's raid in Manila's Muslim enclave of Quiapo, but only two were charged and later released on bail. Police claimed to have recovered homemade bombs and weapons, and that five of the 17 people detained allegedly belonged to a terrorist group called "Hukbong Khalid Trinidad," or "Khalid Trinidad Army," part of a clandestine movement seeking to convert Christians to Islam and use them to carry out terror attacks. Some of those detained and later released accused police of planting the evidence, but national police chief Edgar Aglipay told reporters there was "strong evidence" against two of the suspects.Posted by: Fred 2005-01-15 |
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