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Vice President Teofisto Guingona threatened to resign yesterday, saying he was bypassed by the military and the police who went straight to President Gloria Arroyo for approval of controversial United States-Philippine war games in Zamboanga City and Basilan, even as U.S. soldiers set up camp yesterday on an island in the southern Philippines where they will join operations against a militant group linked to Osama bin Laden.

Deposed president Joseph Estrada would have been the victim of a coup plot against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo because the plan of his followers was to use him as a puppet president in a military junta, said Vice President Teofisto Guingona.