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Ferry fire terror claim dismissed
03/01/04
Divers returned to a half-sunken, gutted ferry Monday to search for 137 missing passengers, while the government played down claims by a Muslim militant group that it planted a bomb which caused the ship to catch fire last week.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/01/philippines.ferry.ap/index.html

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American Brothers Accused of Terror Links Deported to U.S.

Monday, March 01, 2004

MANILA, Philippines — Two American brothers arrested in the Philippines last year for alleged ties to Al Qaeda (search)-linked groups were deported to the United States, immigration officials said Monday.

Michael Ray Stubbs (search), 55, of Antioch, Calif., and his brother James, 56, who also goes by the name Jamil Daud Mujahid (search), of Newark, N.J., were arrested in December and ordered deported.

Authorities alleged that James Stubbs met with members of the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf (search) as well as the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112882,00.html