http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2005/07/26/nat.l.security.adviser.says.
10.would.be.suicide.bombers.being.sought.(7.30.p.m.).html
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Nat'l security adviser says 10 would-be suicide bombers being sought (7:30
p.m.)
MANILA -- Philippine security forces are hunting 10 would-be suicide bombers
and have already foiled a plot for a major attack, President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo's national security adviser said Tuesday.
Norberto Gonzales said he was worried about possible new attacks in Manila
following the recent terror bombings in London and Egypt.
"From intelligence information we have gathered from our neighbors, we know
that there are suicide bombers now in the Philippines, at least 10 of them,
preparing for a terrorist attack," he told ANC television as he pushed for
passage of an anti-terrorism law.
He said one intelligence unit has been "solely dedicated to pursuing the
terrorists." He did not identify the alleged terrorists or the groups they
belong to and gave no other details.
Gonzales also said Philippine security forces foiled a "huge plot" to bomb
unspecified targets with the seizure of 600 kilograms (1,320 pounds) of
explosives earlier this year.
At the time, police said bombings planned by the al-Qaida-linked Muslim
extremist Abu Sayyaf group were pre-empted with the arrest of a suspected
militant whose information led to the explosives cache in March. The
military said the explosives were intended for terror attacks in Manila
during the Easter holidays.
Terror bombings have hit the capital and other parts of the country in
recent years. On Valentine's Day, three almost simultaneous attack in Manila
and the southern Philippines killed four people and wounded 63 others.
In her state of the nation speech Monday, Arroyo urged "swift passage of an
anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather
than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens
with extinction."
She also reported that anti-terror operations have hurt the Abu Sayyaf and
the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, leaving the terror
movement to "only pick up the pieces of its broken backbone" in the southern
Mindanao region.
Several draft anti-terrorism bills are pending in Congress. Some would set
up a controversial national ID system or allow electronic surveillance and
arrests without warrants. Opponents warn of erosion of civil liberties.
"We are writing a law intended for terrorists, it's not intended for
citizens," Gonzales said. "We are dealing with a very, very specialized
group, a very small minority imbedded in the societies of the world... They
seem to want to achieve their purpose by murdering as many civilians, as
many innocents as possible." (AP)
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