1. "The Manila International Airport Authority [MIAA] gives formal notice that jokes about carrying bombs while in the airport and on board the aircraft will be taken seriously," an advisory issued recently by the MIAA said.

2. But under Executive Order No. 548 issued by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Aug. 1, the commission is to orchestrate the Task Force Against Illegal Recruitment (TFAIR), whose members would include representatives from the NBI, the national police, with help from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), the Department of Justice, the POEA, and the Bureau of Immigration.

3. Atutubo said MIAA first issued the notice more than a year ago after a woman on a domestic flight told an attendant that she had a bomb inside her carry–on bag and refused to put it in the overhead bin.

4. CFO Chairman Dante Ang said the task force would include representatives from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) with assistance from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), and the Bureau of Immigration (BI). The new task force will hold office at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) where it could coordinate with all other government agencies involved in the anti–illegal recruitment campaign. «I have met with the other members of the task force and asked them to submit a list of their recommended members,» Ang told Arab News.