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Monday, November 20, 2006
Dulmatin's children no longer in Sulu: mayor
By Bong Garcia
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- An official of Sulu disclosed recently that the four children of Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Amar Bin Usman, more known as Dulmatin, could no longer be found in his municipality.
Patikul Mayor Ismun Suhuri revealed this to reporters who chanced upon him at the Zamboanga International Airport (ZIA).
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Suhuri said that most likely the four children were transferred to another place to hide them from Philippine authorities.
Dulmantin's wife Istiada Oemar Sovie, alias Amenah Toha, told Philippine and Indonesian officials last week that she wanted to be deported to Indonesia together with her six children.
Philippine authorities arrested Toha, together with her two children aged six and eight, in the town of Patikul, Sulu last October.
Since then, she and her two children have remained in the custody of the Philippine military at Camp Don Basilio Navarro, which houses the Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) headquarters in Zamboanga City.
Toha has told Philippine and Indonesian officials that her four other children were left in the care of a Filipino family staying in the town of Patikul when she was arrested.
Indonesian Consul-General Ikon Moch Entjeng and Consul Secretary Bamban Gunawan, who visited her last week, said they were ready to facilitate the deportation of Toha and her children to Indonesia.
Wesmincom chief Lieutenant General Eugenio Cedo has immediately ordered his troops to locate Toha's other four children upon learning they were left behind in Sulu.
Suhuri said he is willing to help locate Dulmatin's children so they can be reunited with their mother for eventual deportation.
Toha and her children entered the country via the southern backdoor in 2003, three months after Dulmatin fled Indonesia for the southern Philippines.
Dulmatin, Omar Patek and another JI member fled Indonesia after authorities arrested their companions in a crackdown.
Dulmatin and Patek were tagged as the masterminds in the 2002 bombing in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Philippine military troops have launched an offensive dubbed as Oplan Ultimatum upon learning the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyafs are sheltering the three JI terrorists. (Sunnex)
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