MANILA (Reuters) - Security forces in the Philippine capital were on top alert on Monday, hours before President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was due to fly to New York to attend a world summit at the United Nations.
The military said the heightened alert had nothing to do with persistent talk that some junior officers, unhappy over Congressional rejection of impeachment complaints against Arroyo, might seek to intervene in the political crisis.
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