Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people

2003-02-28 Thread Sean Donelan
ILIGAN, Mindanao - Muslim separatist rebels blacked out the southern third of the Philippines in overnight sabotage attacks, leaving about 18 million people in the dark for hours, officials said Thursday. Electricity supply was restored to most of Mindanao island by Thursday as the government

Re: Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people

2003-02-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:33:48PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas blew up at least five steel transmission towers before midnight using improvised explosives from mortar shells on Wednesday, knocking out from the grid the key Agus hydro-electric

Re: Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people

2003-02-28 Thread batz
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: :ILIGAN, Mindanao - Muslim separatist rebels blacked out the southern third :of the Philippines in overnight sabotage attacks, leaving about 18 million :people in the dark for hours, officials said Thursday. So we have a bit of time to figure out how to

RE: Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people

2003-02-28 Thread Al Rowland
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of batz Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people [snip] During some mild rolling brownouts here a while ago, I sent out the phone number of the local hydro company NOC to some