Philippine soldiers and police have arrested two of the alleged masterminds of a failed 2003 coup in separate raids in Manila, an army spokesman official said yesterday. Colonel Tristan Kison said retired Colonels Romeo Lazo and Virgilio Briones, leaders of the right-wing group Guardians Brotherhood, were caught in the suburb of Quezon City on Saturday. "They did not resist arrest," Kison said, adding that they were taken to a central Manila police camp for questioning. Lazo and Briones had a 500,000-peso ($9,600) bounty on their heads after the justice department filed rebellion charges in February against them and five other retired soldiers, including ex-colonel Gregorio Honasan, a former senator. They were accused of inciting 300 soldiers to take over high-rise apartments in Manila's financial district in an attempt to force President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to step down.