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Zambo bombing suspect is a Sayyaf bomb expert |
2008-04-17 |
![]() Perez identified one of the suspects in last Sunday's bombing as Joel Salem alias Abu Madja, an Abu Sayyaf bomb expert. Perez said Salem's identity was established following an intelligence fusion by the police and military forces stationed in Zamboanga City. He said Salem is under the group of Isnilon Hapilon, one of the bandit leaders wanted by the US government for the killing and kidnapping of two American citizens in 2001. Citing intelligence report, Perez disclosed that Salem has undergone explosive-making training in Central Mindanao and Sulu provinces. He said Salem and some companions were spotted sometime in February this year in one of the malls downtown "apparently looking for possible targets." One of Salem's companions was arrested last month by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in front of the Philippine National Red Cross-Zamboanga City chapter compound along Pettit Barracks downtown, Perez said. He added that composite police and military teams were deployed to hunt Salem and his cohorts, while appropriate charges will be filed against the suspects. "They have no place in Zamboanga City," Perez added. |
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