SE Asian police chiefs to meet

Tue, 26 Aug 2003, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

PHILIPPINES: Southeast Asian police chiefs will meet in Manila
next month to discuss antiterrorism cooperation, officials said
on Monday.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations police officials will
discuss how to strengthen the region's war on terrorism and
cross-border crime during the Sept. 8 through Sept. 11 meeting,
Philippine police chief Hermogenes Ebdane said.

ASEAN police officials will also discuss how they can
intensify cooperation with countries like Australia and New
Zealand, Ebdane said.

Philippine police intelligence director Arturo Lomibao said
the July 14 escape of Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, a suspected bomb
expert for the extremist group Jamaah Islamiyah, would be
discussed. --AP

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