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Philippine Police Catch Most-Wanted Guerrilla | ||||
2003-05-27 | ||||
EFL One of the Philippines' most-wanted Muslim guerrillas, allegedly trained by Al Qaeda and linked to numerous Southeast Asian terrorist plots, was in police custody Monday.
Guess it wasn't much of a disguise, although the cast was a nice touch. Must of been the blond wig that gave him away.
"Yar, we be revolutionaries!" Police intelligence officials, however, say Yunos is among supporters and trainers of such groups as Jemaah Islamiyah. Yunos allegedly worked as a bombing and urban warfare instructor for the MILF and foreign terrorists, who approached him for logistical needs including bombs, police say. A police intelligence file describes him as "a fanatic of the extreme Islamic fundamentalist movement" who received training in an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, including lessons on using anthrax as a biological weapon. A big fish, bet he's already meeting with the giggle juice distributor from D.C. A fellow trainee, Indonesian Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, would later emerge as a key Jemaah Islamiyah operative in Southeast Asia, according to the report. Al-Ghozi was arrested in Manila in January 2002, pleaded guilty to explosives possession charges and was sentenced to 10-12 years in prison. When Jemaah Islamiyah, led by al Ghozi, planned to bomb the Israeli and U.S. embassies and other Western targets in Singapore in 2001, they turned to Yunos to produce five to seven tons of explosives, another police intelligence report said. In exchange for Yunos' help, al Ghozi gave him about 155 pounds of explosives later used in five almost-simultaneous bombings that killed 22 people in Manila on Dec. 30, 2000, police officials say. If Yunos got them seven tons of explosives, why would he have to get 155 lbs from them?
Nice catch. | ||||
Posted by:Steve |
#1 Perhaps making his way to Cuba and free health care. And great education. Hey 'AKA Yunos' We got a Cuban vacation for ya. Grab your crate and have a seat. You'll have to miss your stop over in Iran though, and some of the gold you hoped to access has been waylaid, "Curtesy of the red, white and blue". |
Posted by: Lucky 2003-05-27 11:34:14 |