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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5171654.stm
Philippine 'attack plot foiled'
The army says the men wanted to install a new government
Six fugitive army officers arrested last week in the Philippines were plotting an attack on parliament, army officials said.
The group planned to seize control of the House of Representatives and take lawmakers hostage, army spokesman Lt-Col Bartolome Baccaro said.
They wanted to introduce a new revolutionary regime, other military officials told the AFP news agency.
The six men were detained on Friday over a failed mutiny in 2003.
They were being sought over accusations they led hundreds of soldiers who briefly occupied buildings in Manila's Makati financial district.
A civilian fact-finding commission concluded that the 2003 mutiny was part of a larger plot to replace President Gloria Arroyo with a military government.
Three of the officers arrested had escaped from a military jail in January.
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Lt-Col Baccaro said the information about this latest attack plot came from documents seized during the group's arrest on Friday at a house in a Manila suburb.
The documents showed logistics of the plot, including attacks on additional targets intended as diversions, he said.
The six officers, and two civilians, were arrested last week
The rebels planned to attack during the president's annual State of the Nation address to both houses of parliament on 24 July.
But a lawyer for one of the officers cast doubt on the allegations.
"I am sceptical about such detailed documents... That they just record everything like that and leave them lying around," the AP news agency quoted him as saying.
Coup plots are common in the Philippines, after two presidents were removed from office by popular revolt, backed by the military, in 1986 and 2001.
In February Ms Arroyo briefly imposed a state of emergency, citing a coup plot by rogue military officers and some lawmakers.
this is from July 7.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5156820.stm
Philippine 'attack plot foiled'
The army says the men wanted to install a new government
Six fugitive army officers arrested last week in the Philippines were plotting an attack on parliament, army officials said.
The group planned to seize control of the House of Representatives and take lawmakers hostage, army spokesman Lt-Col Bartolome Baccaro said.
They wanted to introduce a new revolutionary regime, other military officials told the AFP news agency.
The six men were detained on Friday over a failed mutiny in 2003.
They were being sought over accusations they led hundreds of soldiers who briefly occupied buildings in Manila's Makati financial district.
A civilian fact-finding commission concluded that the 2003 mutiny was part of a larger plot to replace President Gloria Arroyo with a military government.
Three of the officers arrested had escaped from a military jail in January.
Speech
Lt-Col Baccaro said the information about this latest attack plot came from documents seized during the group's arrest on Friday at a house in a Manila suburb.
The documents showed logistics of the plot, including attacks on additional targets intended as diversions, he said.
The six officers, and two civilians, were arrested last week
The rebels planned to attack during the president's annual State of the Nation address to both houses of parliament on 24 July.
But a lawyer for one of the officers cast doubt on the allegations.
"I am sceptical about such detailed documents... That they just record everything like that and leave them lying around," the AP news agency quoted him as saying.
Coup plots are common in the Philippines, after two presidents were removed from office by popular revolt, backed by the military, in 1986 and 2001.
In February Ms Arroyo briefly imposed a state of emergency, citing a coup plot by rogue military officers and some lawmakers.
this is from July 7.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5156820.stm
