Philippines: December 9, 2002

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In the south, NPA rebels robbed a bus and looted three homes, saying they expected to find weapons. Communist NPA has been increasingly short of cash since the US and other nations declared them a terrorist organization and interfered with fund raising overseas. 

Police found 4,500 blasting caps being smuggled to an Abu Sayyaf camp in he south. 

 

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