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1 posted on 03/27/2007 7:35:54 PM PDT by nuconvert

2 posted on 03/27/2007 7:39:10 PM PDT by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)

3 posted on 03/27/2007 7:41:32 PM PDT by ChristianDefender ("Show No Mercy, For You Shall Receive None.")

8 posted on 03/27/2007 7:52:14 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6501695.stm

Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 02:42 GMT 03:42 UK

"Gunmen seize bus in Philippines"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "At least two armed men have taken 32 children and two teachers hostage on a bus near the centre of the Philippines capital Manila, police say."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "They wrote that they possessed an Uzi assault rifle, a revolver and two grenades, and that they were demanding free housing and education for an unspecified group of children."

9 posted on 03/27/2007 7:52:47 PM PDT by Cindy

Let's ask the US Senate what they would do. /s *grrr

12 posted on 03/27/2007 8:00:40 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough (Think responsibly.)

16 posted on 03/27/2007 8:07:02 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)

UPDATE:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=71665

Metro (as of 11:04 AM)

"(3rd UPDATE) Day care owner takes 30 pupils, 4 teachers hostage"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The hostage-taker of 30 schoolchildren on board a bus in Lawton, Manila turned out to be the owner of a day care center who wants to make sure the pupils will finish college.

"I love these children," hostage-taker and Musmos Day Care center owner Jun Ducat told DZMM, adding that he would not hurt the children.

He also clarified that he was the only hostage-taker. He said there are also four day care teachers inside the bus. The hostage crisis started around 9 a.m., reports said.

Ducat said the children's parents were told that their children were going to have a field trip in Tagaytay City.

Ducat was seen on video inside the bus holding one of the teachers and a grenade on one hand. Terrified children were seen peeking from the windows of the bus.

Initial reports had said three armed men were holding the children hostage.

Deogracias Bugarin, driver of the bus owned by Philippine Trans Corp. with body number 194, said they came from Baseco Compound in Parola, Tondo district in Manila."

24 posted on 03/27/2007 8:22:56 PM PDT by Cindy

If you have any amount of money, in your pockets, at any one time, and it looks like you have money, eventually YOU ARE GOING TO GET KIDNAPPED IN THE PHILIPPINES.

I swear, the BASKET CASE OF ASIA.

28 posted on 03/27/2007 8:39:05 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Do you, your company or your country suffer from "AADD"?: "Asian Attention Deficit Disorder")

educate these children or we will kill them. no words.

46 posted on 03/27/2007 10:03:19 PM PDT by soycd

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