Suspected JI, Abu Sayyaf members nabbed in Boracay
abs-cbnnews.com | 03/11/2008 5:35 PM
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Two suspected terrorists, one of them a foreigner, were arrested by intelligence agents on a tourist island in Aklan province, a military source told ABS-CBN News Tuesday.
The source named the arrested suspects as Almizhabr Bonadial, a suspected Jemaah Islamiyah member, and Mohammad Bani Macarya suspected to be a member of the Abu Sayyaf Group.
The two were arrested in operations conducted on Boracay Island last week, the source said.
This came as Armed Forces’ chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. confirmed the arrest of a Filipino who has suspected links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.
"We would like to come up with the details after we have completed the follow-up operations just to be sure that the members of their cells are already taken cared off," Esperon said.
He said another suspected terrorist, not a foreigner but "came from another country" was also arrested Monday.
The military chief said the arrests were connected to the alleged assassination plot against President Arroyo and a terror group's plan to bomb vital government installations in Metro Manila.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) had said that the assassination plot against the president was uncovered with the recovery of a document, which was written in Arabic.
PNP chief Director General Avelino Razon Jr. said the document was recovered by a security guard on a parking lot of an establishment located somewhere in Metro Manila.
Razon said the document detailed a terror group's plan to bomb a convoy of Mrs. Arroyo and a plot to bomb foreign embassies in Manila.
The revelation, however, was perceived as the government's tactic to prevent people from joining anti-Arroyo protests amid allegations of corruptions against the president and other government officials.
