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| Terror Networks |
| Manila cops on alert after bombs found on trains |
| 2002-03-20 |
The camp of detained former president Joseph Estrada, on trial for corruption, denied any involvement in alleged destabilisation efforts against Mrs Arroyo. Police say they have not ruled out the possibility that Muslim separatist guerillas, communist rebels, or even Estrada supporters might be behind the bombing scares. In the third such incidents in three days, police at dawn on Wednesday removed grenades rigged to batteries at two busy stations of Manila's overhead rail system. Mrs Arroyo's National Security Adviser, Mr Roilo Golez, said the grenades recovered on Wednesday, like earlier packages removed from a sidewalk and near a hotel at the Makati financial district the two previous nights, all lacked detonators. They actually posed no risk to the system's more than 400,000 daily commuters. 'Our analysis is that this is not an act of terrorists. Definitely not. More likely it is an act of a political group who would like to deliver a political message,' he told reporters. So they might be gangsters or political goons (there's no real difference in the PI), or they might be a rebel group, but it's not terrorism because the grenades didn't have detonators. So people are terrorized, but that all that terrorized, right? Me, I'da just gone ahead and called it terrorism, but I'm not real subtle. If you point an unloaded gun at me, I'll take just as much offense as if it's loaded. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |