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2003-07-17 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Steve 2003-07-17 9:25:53 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More info, there seems to be a little confusion on the $10 million: The Philippine government said on Thursday it was checking reports of a $10 million payoff in the escape of a notorious Islamic militant from a maximum-security prison in the capital. The comments by Defence Secretary Angelo Reyes came as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo vowed to stamp out corruption in the police, saying that was most probably how Indonesian Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, the chief bomb-maker of the Jemaah Islamiah network, was able to escape. Reyes also said he was checking with Indonesian officials whether al-Ghozi had reached Jakarta, as a local radio station has reported.
According to Reyes, the radio station reported that al-Ghozi was now in Jakarta and that a senior Filipino police officer who helped him escape received a payoff of $10 million. "We will check on that," he said, adding that the government had received no such reports.

Posted by Steve 2003-7-17 9:43:05 AM|| 2003-7-17 9:43:05 AM|| Front Page Top

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