The anti-terrorism act: Recipe for undeclared martial law


DAVAO CITY, Philippines — “We appeal and call the attention of the upper house in the senate as well as lawmakers in the Congress to question the Human Security Act in the Supreme Court, as these unlawful and inhuman law approved by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as this was set to be implemented this coming July 2007 (next month) after she signed it last February 2007,” Abubakar Uy said Suara Bangsamoro Secretary General in Southern Mindanao Region.

MANILA -- Five people, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured when a bomb went off inside a passenger bus in Matalam, a town in Cotabato province, earlier today.
The United States embassy in Manila today gave a $10 million (at least 450 million pesos) reward to four Filipinos who provided information that led to the deaths of Abu Sayyaf leaders Khadaffy Janjalani and Abu Sulaiman. It was the second-largest reward the US has given in its anti-terrorism campaign in the Philippines. Read the full story.