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| Southeast Asia |
| Philippine troops capture suspected bomber |
| 2009-03-12 |
| Army troops have captured a suspected bomb-maker who was carrying powerful explosives during a clash with Muslim militants in the southern Philippines, a military official said Monday. Troops were looking for communist guerrillas behind a recent bomb attack on a cell phone transmission tower when they clashed with at least five Muslim militants in a jungle near Pantukan township in southern Compostela Valley province on Sunday, Maj. Gen. Reynaldo Mapagu said. Troops captured Giovanni de Ocampo during the clash, but four of his companions escaped. Ocampo told investigators he has links with the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, Mapagu said, adding authorities were verifying his statement. "He was carrying homemade bombs and a lot of bomb parts and it is clear that we have pre-empted some planned attacks," Mapagu told The Associated Press by telephone. |
| Posted by:Fred |