ONE NATION UNDER GOD: '9/11 attack'

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<span style="color: magenta;">PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday that the <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (<a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">CIA</a>) has plans to execute him.</span></h2>
<img alt="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTIfKgNNCHeBqnonLHSmSzwt9z6CsWdvqP1_cn-WqFcieVqBQm1LGocl1ziziiPUL7eHiS4pGFyzNTW44gD1s26trS7PqogkLNSugkQkCm2O1xJZriKYHFhKLMbR-2xPtwXwiAaKPtGXw/s1600/politiko_duterte-poe.jpg" title="PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has plans to execute him." /><br />
<b>This was revealed in a speech delivered before the Filipino community in <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">Hanoi, Vietnam</a> on Friday evening.<br /><br />"That's the situation. They say, the <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">CIA</a> is planning to kill me," Duterte said.<br /><br />Saying that he still could not believe that he was the President, Duterte jokingly asked the CIA to allow him first to realize that he was the top government official in the country.<br /><br />“Until now, I cannot believe that I am the [President]. Give me the chance to think [and realize that I am the] President,” he said.<br /><br />Earlier reports said that there were <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">alleged plan to assassinate Duterte</a>.<br /><br />Based on the testimony by <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">Wilford Palma</a>, who was arrested by the authorities over smuggled gun parts from the United States, one of their regular customers had told them about the assassination plot against the President<br /><br />Unfazed by <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">death threats</a>, Duterte said he is willing to put his life at stake as he is committed to fulfill his mandate to serve the Filipino people.<br /><br />However, Duterte in his speeches is consistently asking the government forces to continue the <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/duterte-claims-cia-planning-to-kill-him.html">bloody war</a> against drugs, should he die while he is still the country’s leader.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />SOURCE. <a href="http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2016/09/29/duterte-claims-cia-planning-kill-him-500634">SUNSTAR</a></b></div>

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE SEPT. 11, 2001, terror attack on the United States has made Filipinos realize that combatting terrorism should be a shared responsibility of the government and its citizens, Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said on Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This is a reminder that all of us are facing a faceless enemy, the terrorists,” Andanar said in an interview over dzRB state radio. “And we should all be one in battling this. We should all be helping each other.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said every Filipino should take on the responsibility of helping the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police in putting an end to the activities of the Abu Sayyaf and other local terror groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andanar said it was unfortunate that the unimaginable 9/11 incident, which killed nearly 3,000 people 15 years ago, had “opened a Pandora’s box in terrorism.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“As a matter fact, it developed into something even worse. We now see extremists like IS. Even the Abu Sayyaf became stronger [after 9/11],” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Abu Sayyaf has been described as the most notorious local terrorist organization. It has allied itself with the late international terror chief Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, the regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah and recently with the sadistic Islamic State.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The group has denied involvement in the Sept. 2 bomb attack in Davao City that killed 14 people and wounded 67 others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Duterte has vowed to exact revenge on those behind the bombing in his hometown, warning he would eat the terrorists alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The attack in Davao happened shortly after the President ordered intensified military operations in Sulu province to run after the Abu Sayyaf. Authorities suggested the attack could also be linked to the administration’s ruthless war against illegal drugs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andanar said the government was not taking lightly warnings of bomb attacks in crowded places which were sent through text and e-mailed by unknown individuals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He urged those who receive threatening messages to immediately call government hotline numbers 911 or 117 and give the information to the proper authorities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“As a responsible citizen practicing your civic responsibility, you should call 911 so that at least [the information] is on record. It’s better to be safe than sorry,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Our intelligence agencies can trace the sources of these [threatening] text messages and e-mails,” he said. “To our countrymen, I hope you don’t make prank calls to our hotlines because it would only worsen the situation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said the President’s declaration of a state of lawlessness would help the military and the police conduct operations against individuals out to sow terror in other parts of the country after the Davao blast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SOURCE: <a href="http://globalnation.inquirer.net/144587/us-911-a-wake-up-call-for-pinoys" target="_blank">Inquirer</a>.<a href="http://globalnation.inquirer.net/144587/us-911-a-wake-up-call-for-pinoys" target="_blank">net</a></span>

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