4 wounded in twin explosions in Southern RP By Al Jacinto
Sun-Star, Zamboana July 31, 2005 FOUR persons were wounded in two separate explosions Saturday in the southern Philippines, police and military said. A homemade bomb exploded Saturday in Cotabato City in the southern Philippines, wounding a 14-year old girl, police said. Police said the bomb, planted near a light pole, went off around 11.05 a.m. inside the compound of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). "We are still investigating the blast. One 14-year old student was slightly wounded in the explosion that occurred inside the ARMM compound," local police chief Inspector Joey Ampong said. Four hours later, a second bomb rift through a section of Koronadal City, which left three persons wounded. The bomb, placed in a cardboard box, exploded on a motorcab parked infront of the city's main market, the military said. No group claimed responsibility for the two attacks, and authorities would not say if the explosions were connected or not. Police in Cotabato said they recovered parts of a shattered cellular phone, raising suspicion that it was used to trigger the explosion. "They're using cell phones as initiators to set off explosive devices. This could be part of a bigger plot to sow terror. We are in heightened alert now," Ampong said yesterday, July 30. The police could not say who were behind the blasts or the motive in the attacks. "It could be a rehearsal to test whether cell phones are effective tools to trigger explosion," Ampong said. Abu Sayyaf terrorists tied to al-Qaeda network had also previously used cell phones to detonate bombs in Zamboanga City. Instead of the phone ringing, it sends the power to an explosive charge and detonated it. In the Bali bombings in October 2002 that killed 202 people, Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists triggered a bomb in a mini-bus outside the Sari Club with a cell-phone detonator. A car bomb detonated by mobile phone killed 12 people at Jakarta's Marriott hotel in August 2003. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h2dcrn6/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122910227/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- 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/
