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Israel Anti-Terrorist Experts Train Philippine Police
Xinhuanet 2002-04-22 19:57:59
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-04/22/content_368123.htm
MANILA, April 22 (Xinhuanet) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
confirmed Monday that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has a
long-standing "commercial arrangement" with Israeli anti-terrorist
experts to train crack Filipino police commandos.
"We have the Israelis long before. Actually, some of them are
already living here in the Philippines. But this training has a
commercial arrangement," she said in a radio interview.
President Arroyo explained that the training by Israeli police
experts of the PNP is different from those with Scotland Yard and
Hong Kong police because these are being done on the basis of "
government-to-government arrangements."
She said the training exercise under the Israeli police experts
is part of the anti-kidnapping solutions that her administration
has implemented since last year as a commitment to the Filipino-
Chinese community, the major victim of kidnap-for-ransom crimes
in the country.
But the president stressed that such training programs for the
PNP from Israel, Britain, and Hong Kong, China are all parts of
the anti-kidnapping campaign of the government.
The country's most infamous kidnap-for-ransom group is the Abu
Sayyaf, which is still holding an American couple and a Filipina
nurse in the southern island of Basilan, the last hostages of its
latest kidnapping spree that began in May last year.
A thousand U.S. soldiers are in the southern Philippines,
including some 160 special forces in Basilan, helping the local
military wipe out the Abu Sayyaf bandits, allegedly linked to the
al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of
the September 11 terror attacks on the United States.
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