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| 2 Filippino JI jugged |
| 2004-08-03 |
| Two Filipino members of the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network allegedly behind a deadly bombing attack that left 22 people dead in the Philippine capital four years ago have been captured, an army spokesman said Tuesday. Lieutenant Colonel Buenaventura Pascual said the two suspects, Mamasao Naga and Abdul Pata, were arrested in the southern city of Marawi in the past two days but he declined to give further details. The two had earlier been identified by captured Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) bomb-maker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi as the perpetrators of the bombing of the Manila light rail system in December 2000 that left 22 people dead, Pascual said. He said the JI had planned to use the remainder of the stockpile for a bombing campaign in Singapore. Pascual said al-Ghozi had previously identified the two arrested Filipinos as part of the team that carried out the actual bombing and that warrants for their arrest had already been issued. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |