Officials Uncover Al Qaeda Plot to Assassinate Philippines President

FOX News ^ | February 14, 2008 | AP

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MANILA, Philippines — Militants linked to Al Qaeda plotted to assassinate the Philippines president and bomb foreign embassies, officials said Thursday.

Military chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon said the assassination plot allegedly was hatched by the extremist Abu Sayyaf group and its Indonesia-based ally, Jemaah Islamiyah.

Opposition groups dismissed the allegation as government scare tactics to prevent people from joining protests Friday to demand President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's resignation.

Brig. Gen. Romeo Prestoza, head of the Presidential Security Group, said police uncovered the plot last week. "It's not only the president who is the target, but also other people ... and embassies," he said without offering specifics.

The alleged plot was to involve a sniper shooting the president, Esperon said.

A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said officials there were aware of media reports that foreign embassies had been targeted but would not comment further. She spoke on condition of anonymity in line with policy.

The officials did not specify when the attacks were expected to occur. But Prestoza said Arroyo's attendance at an alumni homecoming of the Philippine Military Academy on Saturday in northern Baguio city has been canceled and the rest of her schedule was "under assessment."

Earlier, the military had announced that security forces would go on high alert over an alleged communist rebel plan to infiltrate the protests.

"Obviously this is a very desperate tactic to create an atmosphere of terror and scare people to prevent them from joining the protest actions tomorrow," said Renato Reyes, secretary general of left-wing Bayan, one of the protest organizers.

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Opposition groups dismissed the allegation as government scare tactics to prevent people from joining protests

So the Filipino moonbats use the same line as our's.

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“”Obviously this is a very desperate tactic to create an atmosphere of terror and scare people to prevent them from joining the protest actions tomorrow,” said Renato Reyes, secretary general of left-wing Bayan, one of the protest organizers.”

...It seems the left all over the globe are in denial. Ignorance and stupidity knows no boarders.

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It’s worse than that. The Phillipines government is giving a southern island over to the Muslim majority there. I believe the area is called “Davao” and has a large population of Muslims and a history of violence, often brutal.