MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A suspected terrorist killed by
Philippine police snipers after he threatened to detonate a
powerful bomb may have been targeting a church or foreign aid
workers helping typhoon-devastated province, a senior police
official said Monday.  SWAT snipers killed Mohammad Noor Fikrie
late Friday while he threatened to set off a bomb in his
backpack outside a crowded park in southern Davao city.  After
months of surveillance, military and police intelligence
officers had tracked the Malaysian to a budget hotel in the city
last week. Their efforts to capture him peacefully failed when
he evaded police, held up a cellphone and threatened to use it
to set off a bomb.  ‘‘I was just waiting for the blast,’’ said
police Senior Superintendent Ronald de la Rosa said. ‘‘I thought
I would never see my family again.’’  Intelligence officials had
received information that Muslim extremists were planning to
bomb foreigners in Davao, said de la Rosa, who heads the police
force in Davao, a bustling city