Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Gov't troops foil Sayyaf bomb attacks
ZAMBOANGA -- The military claimed to have foiled bomb attacks during the Lenten season after agents of the Regional Intelligence and Investigation Division of the Military Intelligence Group 9 raided a suspected Abu Sayyaf safe house Thursday in Rio Hondo, and seized some 300 bomb detonators.
About 200 bomb detonators were recovered from two boxes that showed these were manufactured by Gulf Oil Corporation Limited of Hyberadad, India.
One hundred other detonators believed to be homemade were found in a third box
No one was in the safe house when the raiding team swooped down on it.
Thirty minutes later, the same operatives swooped down on another suspected Abu Sayyaf hideout in Baliwasan Chico, but found it empty.
Reports said explosives had been stashed in the Baliwasan safe house, but Abu Sayyaf militants quickly moved them out after one of their leaders was slain while four others were captured during a clash in Calabasa, Curuan recently.
The raid was carried out after Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Sambri Kamlon revealed to the military that they had been plotting bomb attacks during the Lenten season.
Kamlon was among the four who were captured in Calabasa, Curuan last week, following a shootout with the authorities that also led to the death of notorious bomber Amilhamja Ajijul, alias Alex Alvarez. (Sunnex)
(April 18, 2006 issue)
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