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Article: Philippine Government Urged to Intensify Drive vs Abu Sayyaf
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 8, 2001
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Philippines' opposition senators Monday renewed their call for
the government to intensify its campaign against the extremist Abu
Sayyaf group following United States-led military attacks against
Afghanistan.
"President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should show the public we have
contingency plans and are ready to face all repercussions from
terrorist invasion so as not to create panic among the public," the
Philippine Daily Inquirer online news quoted Senate minorityleader
Aquilino Pimentel as saying.
Meanwhile, Senator Gregorio Honasan said the government must take
seriously reports linking the Abu Sayyaf to Osama bin Laden in
Afghanistan, whom the United states held responsible for the ...