The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Manila, Philippines - Police in Britain and the Philippines arrested suspected militants in separate investigations Tuesday, with both countries seizing large amounts of explosives. British forces arrested eight men, confiscating more than half a ton of potentially explosive fertilizer from a self-storage unit. It was the same kind used to build the Bali bombs that killed about 200 people in Indonesia two years ago. Also on Tuesday, Philippine security officials detained four suspected Islamic militants and confiscated 36 kilograms of TNT explosive, preventing what the country's president called "a Madrid-level attack in the metropolis" of Manila. United Nations - A blistering report was released at the United Nations on Monday, concerning security mistakes made leading up to the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad last year. The report pulls no punches in its condemnation of the UN's lack of security measures, both before the UN went into Iraq last May, and after, when it became clear the UN could become a target there. London - The British government has outlined plans for the creation of a national police force modelled on the FBI. The Serious Organized Crime Agency would be granted new powers such as more extensive use of evidence from phone taps and plea bargaining for witnesses.3/31/2004
