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COTABATO CITY – Police and military intelligence authorities are certain that the notorious Al-Khobar extortion ring was behind the bombing in General Santos City Wednesday night that left four people dead and 28 others seriously wounded.

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KORONADAL CITY – A member of the Al-Khobar extortion gang behind the spate of bombings of buses in Central Mindanao claimed that former policemen and soldiers are also involved in the group.

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The grieving and angry widow of driver Joelly Giray said the people who killed her husband in Al-Khobar City in Saudi Arabia over the weekend should be beheaded for shooting an innocent, unarmed man.

Giray’s widow, Elumineda, 52, said, "There was no foreboding that this would happen. I am angry at the terrorists who killed him. They should be beheaded. They don’t choose who they attack. If their enemies are Americans, why kill even Filipinos?"
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Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said a DFA team monitoring the situation in Iraq has been ordered to watch developments in Saudi Arabia.
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Giray’s widow, Elumineda, 52, said, "There was no foreboding that this would happen. I am angry at the terrorists who killed him. They should be beheaded. They don’t choose who they attack. If their enemies are Americans, why kill even Filipinos?"
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Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said a DFA team monitoring the situation in Iraq has been ordered to watch developments in Saudi Arabia.
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