What terror threats
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
While we should not be taking the latest advisories by the US, UK, Canada, Australia and France, warning their citizens to avoid travel to the Philippines in view of “imminent danger of terrorist attacks” lightly it is best that we do so with caution, not over react as some quarters are suggesting. Coming as it does after the interception of those “bomb packages” sent out of South Yemen to various Western capitals it is very possible that we can be a target of what some experts are now calling “experimental runs” by hard core terrorists of whatever shape or stripe. Too, given our porous borders and the lingering insurgencies in our midst, it is not hard to imagine some armed groups getting itchy in the hope of sending one kind of message or the other at the expense of innocent parties. It is also conceivable that with 10 million Filipinos overseas, some groups may just be able to induce or threaten or drug a number of our countrymen to carry such “experimental runs” as well much the hundreds of our countrymen who have, unfortunately gone overboard as “drug mules” and are now suffering in jail in various locales. Indeed, there is always the possibility of such bombs, stray or otherwise, getting into crowded areas and causing all kinds of damage to us all..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101108com4.html
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