91.   Philippine police said Monday that they have launched a manhunt for five members of a radical Islamic group that allegedly plotted to assassinate four foreign diplomats.

92.   Philippine police are accused of routinely torturing suspects to obtain confessions.

93.   Philippine police have arrested an Indonesian, Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, on suspicion of being the explosives expert for Jemaah Islamiyah.

94.   Philippine police have boosted the security detail of detained former president Joseph Estrada to protect him from any assassination attempt, officials said Wednesday.

95.   Philippine police said al-Ghozi had been an explosives expert with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Muslim separatist group that has since opened talks with Manila.

96.   Philippine police were on Thursday staking out an exclusive high-rise condominium in suburban Manila in their search for a legislator charged with raping a child, officials said.

97.   Philippine police also said they believed al-Ghozi had links to al-Qaeda.

98.   Philippine police are hunting for a Pakistani trader suspected of involvement in an aborted plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II, police said Friday.

99.   Philippine police arrested five suspected kidnappers hours after they freed two hostages in exchange for a ransom payment, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

100.   Philippine police chief Recaredo Sarmiento ordered an unspecified number of guards on duty at the time of the escape to be confined to barracks.