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Abu Sayyaf weapons cache seized
Philippine commandos seized sacks of bomb-making materials in a raid on a suspected hideout of Muslim rebels on a remote southwestern island yesterday, a senior navy official said.âIt was very fortunate we seized a cache of explosives and weapons,â said Vice Admiral Ernesto de Leon, the navy chief. âMore or less, we have prevented the possibility of a large-scale bombing in the southâ. He said a navy counter-terrorist team, acting on a tip-off from local residents, stormed the suspected Abu Sayyaf hideout on a remote island near Basilan island yesterday morning. âThere was practically no resistance from a group of armed men guarding the warehouse. They fled even before our boys could reach the shorelines,â de Leon added. Troops found hundreds of blasting caps, rolls of detonating cord, five small guns and 42 sacks of ammonium nitrate, an active ingredient in bomb-making, he said. The navy said there were markings on the sacks indicating the ammonium nitrate may have been smuggled in from neighbouring countries, such as Indonesia or Malaysia. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-09-28 |
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