Monday, July 21, 2003 (Philippines)

SENIOR Insp. Lorenzo Sabog, who heads the police team that responded to a blast alarm, checks the pieces of a homemade explosive device that exploded on top of a telephone booth along New Lucban barangay early Sunday morning. SUN.STAR FOTO/HARLEY F. PALANGCHAO THE Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) urged soldiers and junior military officers Sunday to disown the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and instead join the underground movement. CPP Spokesman Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal disclosed in a statement that several ordinary soldiers and policemen have, in the past, approached the movement to consult their long-time grievances while in the government service. [full story]

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