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Article: Philippine president: brace for terrorist attacks
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 20, 2003
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Philippine president: brace for terrorist attacks
MANILA, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo on Thursday said the Philippines and the world should brace
for terrorist attacks shortly after the start of a US- led attack on
Iraq.
"The world must be ready for terrorist attacks in any country,"
the Philippine Star daily on-line news quoted Arroyo as saying in an
address to cadets at the Philippine Military Academy in the northern
city of Baguio.
The Philippines is among 33 countries named by the United States
among the so-called international coalition for the disarmament of
Iraq.
Arroyo rejected suggestions by critics that her outspoken support
for US ...