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Philippines blast { April 22 2002 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25885-2002Apr21 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25885-2002Apr21 Philippine Bomb Blasts Kill at Least 14 Associated Press Monday, April 22, 2002; Page A20 MANILA, April 21 -- Three explosions ripped through a major city in the southern Philippines today, killing at least 14 people and injuring 45 others after a caller to a radio station warned of a wave of bombings. The caller claimed to be from the militant Muslim group Abu Sayyaf, which has been holding an American missionary couple for nearly 11 months and is the target of a U.S.-backed military campaign as part of Washington's war on terrorism. One bomb exploded outside a busy department store in General Santos, killing at least 14 people, four of them children. Within 40 minutes, bombs exploded near a radio station and a bus terminal in the largely Christian city of 800,000 in the Mindanao region, where Islamic militants have been fighting for an independent homeland. Police said it was too early to accuse any group of carrying out the bombings and blamed only "terrorists." But Radio Mindanao Network said it received a call an hour before the first blast from a man who asked whether the station wanted to cover bombings later in the day. A separate warning circulated as a cell phone text message said 18 bombs had been planted around the city and would start exploding after lunch. Police said they received an anonymous call with the same claim. © 2002 The Washington Post Company

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