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Apart from amending the provisions
of the Human Security Act to give it
more teeth against terrorism, Puwersa ng
Bayaning Atleta Party-list Rep. Jericho
Nograles said next year's national budget
should include allotments to strengthen
the country's border security.
He made the statement even as Army
ChiefMacairog Alberto met with Israeli Am-
bassadot to t'he Philippines Rafael H4rpaz to
exchange vi€ws on corufefterofism in Fort
Bonifacio in Taguig City on Tiresday
. Harpaz's made his courtesy call follow-
ing the Counter-Tenorisrn Trainers Train-
ing between the Philippine Army and the
lsrael Defense Forces in fod Magsaysay in
Nueva Ecija fiom Monday to Wednesday.
Nograles said the country's archipe-
lagic nature had made it very difficult
to secure its border, and this was aggra-
vated by the fact that the Bureau of Im-
migration and the Transport department
were far behind in the use of aeterrent
technologies rrrch as biomelric and face-
recognition surveillance systems.
'"Terrorists so in and out of the
"Terrorists can go
country even by using our airports and
npaea-
,ffiisought
existing protocols and tactics in its cam-
paign against terrorism.
"But let us not be too quick to draw
conclusions on nalionality since prior to
this incident, therc has been no reported
Filipino suicide bomber ever
Lasuca could just be one of the many
local Islamic €xtrcmisti who have been
indoctrinated and trained by foreign ter-
rorists as suicide bombers, and the In-
danan incident could be the prelude to
more deadlier attacks.
Accordingto rcports, one ofthe suicide
bombers detonated himsellwhen he was
accosted by Army personnel manning a
checkpoint near the command post ofthe
lst BCT. After the fi$t detonation, the
second suicide bombet reportedly rushed
inside the command post before setting
offthe bomb he was canying.
Eight people were killed while 22 others
were injured in the attack that military ol
ficials claim to be the fint suicide bombing
attack involving a Filipino tenorist. The other
bomb is vet to be identified but WESMIN-
COM claim he is Caucasiim. with PNA
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