(AP) Philippine police seize homemade bombs, weapons at Islamic center MANILA, Philippines Three homemade bombs and an array of weapons were confiscated by Philippine police in a raid Friday on an Islamic center in Manila.
The Islamic center had been under surveillance for the past three months because of possible links to a ferry bombing on Manila Bay last year that killed more than 100 people, said Federico Laciste, chief of the metropolitan Manila Criminal Investigation and Detection Group. Police said that bombing, the worst terrorist attack in the country, was the handiwork of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group. Police held for questioning 13 men and three women, mostly Muslim converts, who were at the Islamic center on Friday. Police Capt. Jess Kabigting said the improvised bombs were designed to be triggered by mobile phone. Metropolitan Manila Police Chief Avelino Razon told DZRH radio that a bomb squad was examining components of the explosive devices. Laciste said a rifle grenade, several pistols, a submachine gun with a silencer, and assorted bomb-making paraphernalia were found with the bombs. A still undetermined amount of TNT in boxes was also recovered, Kabigting said. One of the women detained by police denied any knowledge of the bombs and weapons, and said she and the others were herded out of the center and didn't see what police recovered, DZRH reported. Razon speculated the bombs may have been prepared for an attack on large crowds attending the annual Catholic religious feast of the Black Nazarene on Sunday in Manila's Quiapo district. "The planned bombing (of the feast) is not yet confirmed, but what is important is we have prevented, possibly, that plan," he said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
