PHILIPPINES DEPORTING 11 IRAQIS FOR SUSPECTED TERROR LINKS

AFX European Focus | March 21, 2003

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Philippines deporting 11 Iraqis for suspected terror links

AFX European Focus March 21, 2003 Friday

MANILA

The Philippines is to deport 11 Iraqis arrested for suspected links to terrorism, immigration commissioner Andrea Domingo said.

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Domingo said the authorities were "investigating reports that the 11 Iraqis were part of a terror network" allegedly led by an expelled Iraqi diplomat Husham Hussain linked to Muslim extremist groups in the southern Philippines.

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    Domingo said the 11 were arrested after "intelligence reports confirmed that terrorist groups sympathetic to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were planning attacks against several American targets in the country in retaliation for the US-led war against Iraq".

    Among those arrested was Saad Khahamatar T'laa, a suspect in the 1991 attempted bombing of a US cultural centre building in Manila's financial district Makati, Domingo said.

    T'laa was picked up in the troubled southern region's Davao City, where an explosion at its airport's waiting lounge left 22 people dead and more than 150 others injured.

    Domingo said the authorities were "investigating reports that the 11 Iraqis were part of a terror network" allegedly led by an expelled Iraqi diplomat Husham Hussain linked to Muslim extremist groups in the southern Philippines.

    The Philippine government accused Hussein of having alleged contacts with the Abu Sayyaf group when he was expelled last month.

    The Abu Sayyaf has been linked by Washington and Manila to the al-Qaeda terror network of Osama bin laden.

    The Philippines is a key ally of the US and is part of the Washington-led "Coalition for the Immediate Disarmament of Iraq".

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[Wallaby]

fyi

[HiTech RedNeck]

So saad, too baad.

[jnarcus]

And now we have another link between Iraq, Muslim terroism, and Oklahoma City...Terry Nichols travelled to this area of the Phillipines a lot of times before the bombing and I think that there ain't no such thing as coincidence

[GLDNGUN]

Expelled, huh? Meaning sent back to...Iraq? Boy, have we got a welcome home party waiting for them.:-)

[Wallaby]

"Five nations -- Sweden, Australia, the Philippines, Romania and Germany -- have expelled Iraqi diplomats following “requests” from Washington to do so, while Russia, Belgium and Portugal have refused."

Islam Online

[Wallaby]

"The State Department today said it had instructed US embassies in the 62 nations where Iraq has a diplomatic presence to ask their host governments to suspend the accreditation of Saddam's ambassadors and expel his senior diplomats." 62 nations asked to expel Iraqis.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!