Suspected Abu Sayyaf militant arrested while trying to enter mall with incendiary substance MANILA, Philippines Police have arrested a suspected Muslim extremist found trying to enter a shopping mall in the southern Philippines with a mobile phone case filled with a flammable substance amid a heightened security alert for possible bombings during the Easter holidays, officials said Saturday. Abdullah Wahab Piang, alias Abdullah Adbulkahar, 36 _ who is believed to be a member of Abu Sayyaf _ was taken into custody Wednesday after security guards at the KCC Mall in southern General Santos city found him carrying a white powdery substance in the case, which was also filled with strips of paper, Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane said. Initial inspection by police showed the substance to be incendiary material. "It will not explode but it will create a flame and can be used for sabotage or to start a fire," Dangane added. Dangane said police are also looking into the real identity of Piang, whose name matches that of an Abu Sayyaf member with a pending arrest warrant for kidnapping issued by a court on southern Jolo island. Officials said Monday that three Jemaah Islamiyah operatives were suspected of plotting with Abu Sayyaf to stage bombings this week. Soldiers and police have beefed up security in shopping malls, churches and other crowded places to guard against bombings threatened by Abu Sayyaf as revenge for the deaths of 23 inmates killed by police in a botched jailbreak last week. Among them were three prominent guerrilla commanders. Citing the worries about planned attacks, the U.S. and British governments warned their citizens on Wednesday against traveling to the Philippines. Jemaah Islamiyah and the Abu Sayyaf, two of Southeast Asia's deadliest Islamic militant groups, are collaborating in the southern Philippines to train extremists in explosives, weapons and combat tactics, jailed Indonesian terror suspect Rohmat said Wednesday. Like many Indonesians, Rohmat uses only one name. The jungles in the south also are providing refuge to terrorists involved in major attacks elsewhere in the region, including the 2002 bombings in a nightclub district on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, the suspected Jemaah Islamiyah operative told The Associated Press in an interview. 050326 104602 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ 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/
