Sorry bout that,
1. But Islam is attacking and launching attacks on America, from *The Philippines*.
2. We have to get over there and wipe these bastards out.
3. We also need to support *The Philippines*, with economic support.
4. Bringing American Businesses into their Nation.
5. Strong efforts need to be made to bring them out of poverty, where so many live day in day out.
6. Medical support is a must, and life saving technologies need to brought over there and set up across their Country.
7. Read this, it explains a lot of why we have so much in the balance in, *The Philippines*:
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/...70909top2.html
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Earlier plot foiled by fire in Manila apartment
On December 11, 1994, a man who gave his name as Armaldo Forlani, an Italian, boarded Philippine Airlines Flight 434 at the Manila International Airport. The plane was flying to Cebu and then on to Tokyo, Japan.
Forlani was actually Ramzi Yousef, a Kuwaiti who had trained in a terrorist camp in Pakistan to assemble and explode bombs. In February 1993 Yousef had left a van packed with explosives in the garage of the World Trade Center in New York. The blast killed six people but it was not powerful enough to bring down the skyscraper’s twin towers. In a letter he mailed to a newspaper before he left hours after the attack, Yousef warned he would try again.
He came up with what is now known as Operation Bojinka (chaos or explosion in Arabic). It involved the assassination of Pope John Paul during the Pontiff’s visit to the Philippines in 1995. The assassination would be a diversion, allowing Yousef and his cohorts to plant bombs in US-bound flights out of Bangkok, Thailand.
Yousef was on Flight 434 to “test” one such device. During the one-hour hop to Cebu he closeted himself in the plane’s toilet, putting together a bomb the parts of which he had hidden in the hollowed-out heels of his shoes and a contact lens solution bottle. Returning to his seat he stuffed the bomb in the life vest underneath. The device was timed to explode once the plane was on its final leg to Tokyo.
In Cebu, Yousef got off the plane. His seat was taken over by a Japanese businessman, Haruki Ikegami.
Two hours into the flight, the bomb went off, killing Ikegami and blasting a hole on the plane’s floor. Despite the damage, the pilot managed to make an emergency landing in Naha, Okinawa.
Yousef decided that he needed a more powerful explosive if was he was to bring a jetliner down. He began to prepare more sophisticated devices known a microbombs, using digital watches as timers and nitroglycerin as the explosive.
Three days before taking the flight to Cebu, Yousef had checked in at the Doña Josefa Apartments on Quirino Avenue in Malate, using the name Najy Awaita Haddat, supposedly a Moroccan. With him was his friend Abdul Hakim Murad. The two occupied Room 603, where they planned to assemble the devices. They were to be joined later by Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Yousef’s uncle and one of the associates of Osama bin-Laden, who was in the middle of building a worldwide network of terrorist cells that would be known as al-Qaeda.
Yousef knew the Pope was arriving in Manila in January for the World Youth Day celebration. To kill the Pontiff a suicide bomber disguised as a priest would have to get close enough to detonate the device. By that time, Yousef would have finished the microbombs and deployed them in the target jetliners.
On the night of January 6, six days before the Pope was to arrive, fire broke out in Room 603. Police would later say that Murad had accidentally started the fire while mixing chemicals in the kitchen sink. The acrid smoke forced Murad, Yousef and Mohammed out of the room and into the street.
The fire was quickly put out but the authorities who responded were astonished at what they found inside Room 603. There were bomb-making chemicals, chemistry manuals, wires, fuses, digital watches, a cassock apparently for the Pope’s designated killer. But the most incriminating item was a laptop, apparently Yousef’s, whose files contained plane schedules, names of his associates, photographs and a letter threatening attacks on US targets in retaliation for American support to Israel.
It was the laptop that Murad had come back for. He, however, didn’t expect to be arrested. Detained and interrogated for weeks he revealed the details of Operation Bojinka, the most chilling of which were plans to load a light plane with explosives at crash it into the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
<b>That’s not all. Murad said Yousef also planned to hijack airliners and use them as missiles aimed at US landmarks including the Pentagon, a nuclear facility, and the World Trade Center. </b>
Yousef and Mohammed escaped (according to one account, they were watching from the other side of the street as Murad was taken away by the police) and flew out of the Philippines.
Yousef was captured several months later in Islamabad, Pakistan. He was brought to New York and charged with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Mohammed would remain in hiding, helping carry out the September 11 attack. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2003.
Operation Bojinka may have failed, but it provided the blueprint—and inspiration—for the terrorist assault on the US in 2001. A Bojinka-like operation was also discovered last year, involving the detonation of liquid explosives in US-bound jetliners over the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery of the terrorist plot delayed flights worldwide and led to restrictions on the carrying of liquids and gels by passengers. Twenty-four suspects were rounded up in Britain, and about half of them were charged.
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Regards,
SirJamesofTexas
*More reasons We Must Work Together To Fight Islam: Philippines Wars Is Ours*
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