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...Indeed, Metro Manila's Camp Crame prison may well be the least secure high-security facility in the world. According to police director Eduardo Matillano, al-Ghozi's cell was so badly constructed that the door could be bent open by hand. A former Abu Sayyaf member working as a janitor gave al-Ghozi details of the best escape route. Before dawn, when al-Ghozi slipped out of the cell and walked out of the prison, one contingent of guards assigned to the nominally high-security block had fallen asleep while another detail had been dispatched outside the prison...
...Manila's Today newspaper on July 17 responded in an editorial, declaring "the police forces of the Philippines are a joke." But no one in Asia is laughing about al-Ghozi being at large. The 32-year-old is the chief bombmaker for Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional grouping of Islamic radicals blamed for the devastating blasts in Bali last October as well as a slew of other explosions. According to academic Zachary Abuza, author of a new book about al-Qaeda in the region: "At a time when they've been lying low and licking their wounds because...
...Very well for the consumer, naturally. For airlines, the nightmare continues in a stream of profit warnings and shrunken timetables. This is, opines Richard Stirland, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, "merely the end of the beginning" of the crisis. In Manila, a Philippine Airlines spokesman echoes the mood of many in aviation: "I've just come from a meeting, and I can tell you we can't see the end of the tunnel. When will schedules get back to normal? We can't think about anything except cost cutting right...
...ARRESTED. SAIFULLAH (MUKLIS) YUNOS, alleged head of special operations for the Philippine separatist group the Moro National Liberation Front and said to be its liaison with the regional terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI); while trying to board a flight for Manila; in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines. Yunos was caught with an Egyptian who is on international terrorist-watch lists. Meanwhile, in Cambodia the authorities detained three men?one Egyptian and two Thais?for being JI members. Although the arrests signify progress in the war on terror, they also show the resilience and reach of JI, which is widely regarded...
When Ying joined Globe Telecom seven years ago, the firm, based near Manila, claimed about 130,000 subscribers. Today, as he departs, he is credited with helping build Globe to 7 million subscribers and $129 million in profit for 2002. Ying, 45, starts in May as COO of a larger telecom firm, Maxis Communications, based in Kuala Lumpur. First on the to-do list of this wine and cigar lover is integrating the recent acquisition of a rival firm, TimeCel...