All I can say is: about frickin' time! US, Australia, etc. regularly send out travel bans/advisories on their citizens when travelling to the Philippines. Well, guess what? There are thousands of Filipinos in those countries too. And with new terrorists threats, the government should warn them of the threats they might face in those countries.

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RP warns Filipinos in US against renewed terror threat
Updated 14:55:20 (Mla time) 2004-08-03
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQ7.net


THE GOVERNMENT has advised Filipinos living in the United States to take “extra measures” to ensure their safety amid a reported Al-Qaeda threat to attack key financial centers in Washington and New York City.
"The Philippine government does not take this new threat lightly. All Filipinos abroad are best forewarned to undertake extra precautions for their safety and that of their families," Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said in a statement.

The US over the weekend raised its terror alert level on key financial centers amid reports that the Al-Qaeda threatened to attack the International Monetary Fund and World Bank headquarters in Washington and the New York Stock Exchange.

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge was quoted as saying that Osama bin Laden's group planned to use trucks or car bombs against targets.

Bunye assured the public that the government was determined to fight terrorism at home and in the region.

The Philippines would continue to work with the US in curbing the problem of terrorism, said Bunye.

"The bridge of understanding and solidarity between Americans and Filipinos has been built through more than a century and has withstood the test of time," he said.

"It will continue to stand as a platform of our common fight against terror and for the defense of democracy," he added.


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Hell, I never thought our government has the will to issue one. I can only approve. :thumb:

The entire planet earth has been declared in danger of terrorist attack. Vacations will have to be taken elsewhere.

:bounce: Mars Hilton is now ready to accept reservations.

no travel for its citizens to the philippines especially Mindanao :demon:

hey I think its we who should issue travel advisory for our citizens not to travel to Britain


its peaceful here in mindanao right now, unlike london bwehehehe

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?in...&story_id=44628

tama ka sis, sunod sunod ang bombahan sa kanila, sa atin wala.

And look how the U.K. reacted when the U.S. issued such advisory:

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U.S. reversal: Ban on troops in London lifted
Officials, media had criticized move as lacking courage after bombings


Updated: 7:36 a.m. ET July 12, 2005

LONDON - Following criticism by British officials and the media, the U.S. government said Tuesday it had reversed course and lifted a post-bombing ban on military personnel from visiting London.

The order, issued soon after the bombings last Thursday, caused indignation in London after it was reported by the media.

The order had applied to Navy personnel as well as the 10,000 Air Force personnel at two major bases in eastern England; the Navy rescinded the order earlier, David Johnson, U.S. embassy’s charge d’affaires, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
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The order contrasted with the advice British officials gave to Londoners after Thursday’s bombings on three subway trains and a bus. The government urged Londoners to get on with their lives and not let themselves be overcome by fear.

'A little more courage' expected"

“I would have hoped our American allies could show a little more courage,” said Andrew Robathan, a Conservative member of Parliament.

The Daily Mail newspaper said in an editorial: “We trust the 4 million Americans who come to London each year are made of sterner stuff than the U.S. Air Force.”

Shortly before the U.S. announcement, Britain’s defense chief, John Reid, said his department had taken up the matter with the American Embassy in London and that the U.S. military was reviewing the orders.

“You will not be surprised to know that my people have been in touch already with the American embassy,” Reid said in an interview with GMTV news. “I understand this is being urgently reviewed. It was a local decision taken locally.”

The order had applied to the area inside the M25 motorway encircling London, but travel on official business was permitted, said Matt Tulis, a spokesman at the Mildenhall Air Force base.

“The main reason is for the security and safety of our military folks,” he said.

'Out of harm's way' rationale

Staff Sgt. Jeff Hamm at Lakenheath said the Air Force wanted to “ensure its personnel are as vigilant and as safe as possible.”

“While it’s important for some to carry on business as usual, the interests in keeping the Air Force out of harm’s way until we have a bit more knowledge about what has happened is greater than the need to send them back into the city,” Hamm said.

Reid told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that the original decision was “perfectly sensible.”

He noted that the first call he received following confirmation of the attack was from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld offering “all possible assistance including people coming to London, and some people have done that.”

“So it isn’t the case that Americans are somehow running away from this,” Reid said.

Londoners won praise from leaders around the world for the stoic resolve they displayed last week, with some likening it to the courage the city showed during the blitz in World War II.

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and should be expected from all these leader countries in their created "War against Terror"

now you feel it too? How about some considerations to us weaker countries.

and so does you!

A travel ‘advisory’ against going to London may be needed
BY THE WAY By Max V. Soliven
The Philippine Star 07/27/2005

Britain recently reiterated its "travel advisory" warning citizens of the UK not to go to the Philippines, and particularly avoid the dangerous Philippine south. Don’t you think it’s time we also issued a "travel advisory" for Pinoys and Pinays not to go to England – London in particular – because there the police may shoot them five times in the head?

New Scotland Yard and the London police a few days ago sheepishly "apologized" (too late) for having killed the wrong man, somebody who absolutely had no links to the Islamic terrorists who had bombed the London "tube", the underground trains, and blown up a bus last July 7, killing 55 commuters and wounding hundreds, then staged a failed repeat performance two weeks later but the second time the bombs fizzled.

In short, a group of police officers who chased, cornered, and shot dead the hapless and later "found" innocent "suspect" had, by their own earlier admission, believed he was a "South East Asian". Aba! – "Southeast Asian", that’s us Filipinos.

Here’s how TIME Magazine, August 1 edition, described that fatal mistake.

"The man vaulted the ticket barrier and ran onto the platform at the Stockwell underground station, pursued by up to 20 police officers who had ordered him to stop. Wearing a heavy coat – odd, on a hot summer day – the man stumbled onto a waiting Northern Line train and was tackled. As he sprawled on the floor, one of the officers – following previously secret ‘shoot to kill’ guidelines covering possible suicide bombers – unloaded five bullets into his head. Was the dead man one of the four conspirators who had tried to bomb London the day before? He was not. Hew as a Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, who had lived in London for three years and who, the police admitted in an apology, had no connection to the terror plots. And so an edgy city got edgier; the terrorists who have targeted London have achieved that much, at least."

What’s significant is that, despite this tragic incident, the police confirm that the "shoot to kill" directive remains in place.

In short, the Brits are now in a state of paranoia, just as in the United States since 9/11.

As TIME magazine said in its subhead: "A nation that prides itself on the fact that most of its police are unarmed is uneasy about seeing machine guns on its streets." Better safe than sorry, however, seems to be the motto of the now heavily-armed police. What’s worse is that many of the security cops seem to be in civvies, not the traditional "London Bobbie" uniform of the old movies and the tourist brochures.

The newsmagazine ran a photo on page 15, captioned: "ON GUARD: An armed officer near Stockwell station, the site of last Friday’s shooting."

The "officer" was sporting a rumpled purple t-shirt and blue jeans, and wearing sneakers (which we quaintly call here "rubber shoes"). Who would have thought he was a police officer? The man’s face had been computered out, but he was holding, in his left hand, what looked to me like a Heckler & Koch MP5 9mm Submachinegun – the so-called HKMP5 – the favorite weapon of the renowned and dreaded SAS, known in slang, song and legend as "The Regiment". (Haven’t you read the blood and guts novels of Chris Ryan and Andy McNab?)

Its real name is "22 Special Air Service" (headquarters Credenhill, Herefordshire). The Regiment consists of some 200 men in four Sabre Squadrons. But who makes a distinction? The Regiment shoots to kill – no wonder hey often wear balaclavas or black hooded ski masks to conceal their identities.

"Indeed," the report in TIME noted, "pictures of plainclothes marksmen cradling enormous automatic weapons outside Stockwell station were redolent more of Baghdad or Kabul than south London."

Why Stockwell? That’s where most of the Muslim terrorists, three of them of Pakistani rigin, seem to have come from.

With so many trigger-happy cops and SAS marksmen on the prowl, swinging London may be the place to avoid for Southeast Asians, South Asians (Pakistanis and Indians), and – Brazilians. This is an unhappy world.

Our policemen, much to the surprise of those who have been condemning their trigger-happy or felonious ways, did a yeoman job last Monday of keeping order (to the frustration of the angry demonstrators, who noticeably and deliberately carried fewer red flags, banners and streamers, perhaps to de-emphasize the radical Leftist character of the most militant). GMA delivered her SONA without incident, flying in by helicopter, then making a quick getaway afterwards.

Is she "over the hump"? Not yet. But she won that round.

In a message of thanks to everyone (including the "sobriety" of the rallyists) Police Director General Arturo C. Lomibao cited the National Capital Region Command under Gen. Vidal Querol. The day before the SONA Lomibao even went to Manaoag in his home province of Pangasinan (he hails from Mangaldan) to pray there to the Miraculous Virgin. Gee whiz, I’ve never seen a more prayerful lot – from GMA to our military and police generals.

Oh well. I remember all too vividly how the late Apo Ferdinand Marcos and his Superma’am, former First Lady Imeldific Romualdez Marcos, used to be photographed and televised piously receiving Holy Communion from the hands of His Late Eminence, Jaime Cardinal Sin, while we were in prison, and some detainees were being tortured, and others were being "salvaged" outside.

Nobody can be accused in this country, whether Christian, or Muslim, of lack of piety. Putting our trust in – or putting the blame on – God, or Allah, as the case may be, is a national habit.

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Be very careful guys!

A country under the cloud of an extreme paranoia will not hesitate to shoot anyone who looks suspicious ....

... AND MOST OF ALL THOSE WHO LOOK ASIAN OR ARABIAN!

The terrorists have won in this front because they've turned the once friendly and compassionate first-world people into monsters and barbarians...

... just like the ones that these people from rich nations are trying to annihilate in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

What's this? Was there something that made their actions in Iraq backfired this way?

Or just a simple case of being too paranoid about terrorism?

Weird!