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To: Rollcast... who wrote (1991)	9/14/2001 1:03:21 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 27666

Hijackers Planned to Seize Philippine Plane to Attack U.S. Fri Sep 14 2001 11:49:51 ET MANILA, September 14--Muslim extremists with links to Osama Bin Laden, prime suspect in Tuesday's terrorist attack on the United States, had planned to hijack a Manila-based commercial airline which has regular flights to the U.S. mainland, the Philippine Star online news reported Friday. The planned hijacking of a commercial airliner by a group of terrorists based in the Philippines was disclosed by Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) General Manager Edgardo Manda, who also said that the Philippine Airlines were the target. The declassified information revealed that the plan to hijack a Philippine plane bound for the United States was supposed to be carried out shortly after the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. were attacked by still unknown group or groups of terrorists. Manda said that the government authorities have raised the level of security at the NAIA, particularly at the departure areas of foreign airlines that have regular flights to the United States. Meanwhile, the Presidential Palace announced Friday that an Omani who was questioned in Manila three days before the U.S. terror attacks for filming the U.S. embassy in Manila from a nearby hotel, was apparently on one of the hijacked planes. Presidential spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao said in a statement that after the attacks it was discovered that ``the name of one of the three (Omanis) appeared in the flight manifest of one of the hijacked planes in the United States.'' Under the instruction of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who is on a working visit to Japan, Executive Secretary Alberto Romulo Friday declared this Sunday as a National Day of Mourning and Solidarity Against Terrorism in deep sympathy with the American people and all humanity. Romulo said Arroyo called on the people to go their churches, mosques and other places of worship on Sunday, to pray for the victims of the tragedy happened in the United States. drudgereport.com