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| Southeast Asia |
| 'Questionable’ envoys under RP surveillance |
| 2003-02-14 |
| THE government has put under surveillance all diplomats believed to be collaborating with terrorists, an offshoot of the expulsion of an Iraqi attaché monitored to be maintaining contacts with communist and Muslim insurgents. Foreign Undersecretary Lauro Baja said the country’s security agencies would not distinguish between Western and Arab diplomats. I don't imagine there will be that many Finns involved with them. Soddies, on the other hand... All envoys suspected of being inconsistent with their functions as foreign diplomats will be placed under surveillance, Baja said, noting that that national security is always prioritized over relations with foreign governments. Worries over the activities of foreign diplomats were triggered by intelligence reports that Iraqi embassy second secretary Husham Z. Hussein was contacted by an Abu Sayyaf leader over the blast in Malagutay, ZamÂÂboanga that killed an American soldier last year. Clumsy. Very clumsy... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |