Thursday, April 17, 2008 (Philippines)

A checker on Wednesday shows to PASG operatives the smuggled crude oil concealed in one of the boxes intended for frozen fish at the cargo bay of M/L Julmina II. (Sunnex/Bong Garcia) THE police and military authorities in Zamboanga City disclosed that one of the three suspects in last Sunday's bombings in the city is a bomb expert of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf bandits. Superintendent Jonathan Perez, officer-in-charge of the Zamboanga City Police Office on Wednesday made the announcement after the identity of one of the three suspects has been established through the joint efforts of his office, 9th Regional Mobile Group (9thRMG)) led by Senior Superintendent Lurimer Detran and Task Force Zamboanga (TFZ) headed by Colonel Darwin Guerra. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo [full story]