Abu bandit nabbed in Zamboanga
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=regions01_april26_2006 By Florante S. Solmerin A SUSPECTED member of the Abu Sayyaf group was arrested by joint military and police operatives in Zamboanga City, Army spokesman Maj. Bartolome Bacarro said yesterday. Bacarro said Sharie Amiruddin, alias "Abu Omar," who has a standing warrant of arrest for 13 counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention, was arrested on Monday by agents of agents of the Army's Intelligence and Security Group, intelligence company of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Isafp) and the Zamboanga City police. "Omar was the planner and a participant in the Dos Palmas kidnapping in Palawan in May 2001 and led the bombing operations in Zamboanga City, Cotabato City and Jolo, Sulu in 2002," Bacarro said. The suspect is now detained at the Philippine National Police Western Mindanao regional headquarters in Zamboanga City. Abu Sayyaf, the smallest of four Muslim rebel groups in the Philippines, has been linked to the Al Qaida terrorist network and the Jemaah Islamiah regional terror group. "Omar had been under surveillance for weeks after the military got information the Abu Sayyaf was plotting to bomb shopping malls and public parks in Zamboanga during Easter holidays earlier this month," Baccaro said. He said the plan was foiled after an alleged bomb-maker was killed during a raid by police and soldiers on a hideout outside Zamboanga two weeks ago. Bacarro said three days after that raid, security forces stormed another Abu Sayyaf hideout in a Muslim village in Zamboanga, confiscating blasting caps and materials for making crude bombs. The Abu Sayyaf is blamed for the country's worst terror attack, the bombing of a ferry near Manila in February 2004 that killed more than 100 people. In May 2001, Abu Sayyaf bandits kidnapped 20 tourists and workers from the Dos Palmas resort and brought them to Basilan, where most of them were held in the jungle for several months. One American tourist, Guillermo Sobero, was beheaded by the rebels. Another American, Martin Burnham, was killed. He was survived by his wife, Gracia, who later wrote a book about their ordeals from the hands of the kidnappers. The Burnhams, Christian missionaries working in the mainly Catholic Philippines, were held for more than a year. <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=regions01_april26_2006#top> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- 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/
