| A man held in the Philippines for alleged involvement in a Southeast Asian bomb plot is suspected to have undergone training on military tactics in Afghanistan with al Qaeda. Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, believed by police to be an Indonesian, was among eight militants who were trained in al Qaeda camps before they were arrested recently in police sweeps in the Philippines and Singapore. Al-Ghozi was positively identified through photographs by his seven associates now being interrogated by Singapore police. Al-Ghozi's associates told Singaporean police of the group's plans to make 21 tons of explosives and use them to build "truck bombs'' to be used against Western targets, including Australian and British offices. The seven now held in Singapore are among 15 people recently arrested in that island state for alleged links to the clandestine Islamic group, Jemaah Islamiah. |