Jemaah Islamiah hand
seen in Tacurong attack
By Anthony Vargas, Reporter
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/may/10/yehey/top_stories/20070510to
p4.html
The powerful bomb blast in Tacurong City that killed as many as eight people
and wounded 30 others has the hallmarks of a Jemaah Islamiah attack,
military officials said Wednesday.
The bombing took place barely a week before the country votes in midterm
elections and several weeks after the US and Australian government issued
warnings against traveling to Mindanao.
Col. Julieto Ando, spokesman of the Army's 6th Infantry Division, said
initial analysis indicates that the device used in the explosion was put
together by the JI, an Indonesian-based terror group with links to the
al-Qaeda.
Police bomb experts said the device, which was composed of TNT and steel
nails, was identical to an explosive found last week in a police outpost and
believed to have been planted by the JI.
Central Mindanao Police Director, Chief Supt. Felizardo Serapio, said that
explosives specialists were still piecing together the bomb fragments to
find out more about who assembled it.
Army ordnance experts said the device might have been fashioned from a
rocket-propelled grenade shell wired to a battery and set off by a
mechanical clock and blasting cap.
Sources from the police intelligence community said the explosion could be
work of JI-trained bombers who had been involved in previous bombings in
Mindanao.
A senior intelligence police officer said that in previous bombing attacks,
the JI had tapped local groups to do its bidding.
Following the Tacurong explosion, police and military beefed up security in
strategic areas in Mindanao by setting up more checkpoints and intensifying
intelligence gathering.
Police and military forces have cordoned off the blast site as bomb experts
continued to sift for clues.
Extra police patrolled the streets of Tacurong while military checkpoints
were set up around the city.
The regional military chief, Maj. Gen. Reymundo Ferrer, also pointed the
finger at JI, saying he believed the attack was designed to ease pressure on
militants under pursuit in Jolo.
Regional army spokesman Lt. Col. Julieto Ando said more checkpoints would be
set up along Mindanao's highways, and troops would guard sensitive
government installations.
Local militants with possible links to JI have been rounded up in Mindanao,
suggesting that the group may have set up local cells that could be
activated through coded mobile-phone calls to carry out attacks, Ando said.
Several JI militants led by wanted Indonesian fugitives Umar Patek and
Dulmatin are holed up with Abu Sayyaf fighters on Jolo Island.
The US government has offered a $10-million reward for the capture of
Dulmatin and $1 million for Patek. The two accused of helping mastermind the
October 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, that killed 202 people.
Ando said troops have been sent to areas where local candidates are expected
to hold last-minute campaign rallies ahead of Monday's midterm elections.
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