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Terrorist training claims denied
The Citizen
|December 18, 2025
The Philippines said yesterday there was no evidence that the country was being used for terrorist training, a day after it was revealed the men behind Australia’s Bondi Beach mass shooting had spent the last month on a southern island known for Islamist insurgencies.
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“[President Ferdinand Marcos] strongly rejects the sweeping statement and the misleading characterisation of the Philippines as the Isis training hotspot,” presidential spokesperson Claire Castro said.
This story is from the December 18, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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