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Two Bombs in Philippines Kill Six
Two bombs exploded at midday Thursday in downtown Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, killing six people and injuring at least 144 others. Police also blew up five suspicious packages and were checking whether they contained bombs that failed to detonate. If they'd gone off, that would have been a fairly worthwhile contribution to the current Terror Machine counteroffensive... There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks, but a military spokesman said the initial suspect in the bombings was the Muslim guerrilla group Abu Sayyaf. The group has previously threatened attacks in retaliation for an ongoing military offensive against it. Lt. Col. Danilo Servando also said there were similarities between Thursday's bombings and an Oct. 2 explosion in Zamboanga which killed four people, including an American Green Beret. Officials blamed the earlier blast on Abu Sayyaf. TNT apparently was used in both attacks. Guess C4's too expensive for them... Ten people, including two foreigners, were brought in for questioning after Thursday's explosions, police said. I love how these "foreigners" keep popping up in these incidents. For some reasons they're never Samoans, Greenlanders, or Argentines. Somebody used the phrase "terror tourists" the other day â I think I'll appropriate that term, since it's so exquisitely descriptive. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-17 |
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