Three Muslim Filipinos acting on orders from the Jemaah Islamiyah Southeast Asian terror network have confessed to plotting a bomb attack on the US embassy in the Philippines, the military said Thursday. The three suspects, Abdul Manap Mentang, his girlfriend, Monawara Usop and Mursid Mubpon, were arrested in Manila over October 6-7 and confessed under interrogation, military spokesman Lieutenant General Edilberto Adan said. They told investigators they were ordered to scout out the US embassy in Manila last month in preparation for another bombing, Adan said in a statement. "Last September 23, Mentang, his No further evidence against the three was given. The three also confessed to bombing the airport and the wharf at the southern Philippines city of Davao last year, Adan said, also after receiving orders from JI. Mentang told investigators he is a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a local Muslim separatist group, and that he assembled the bombs used in the Davao attacks, Adan said. Mentang also said he was trained by a senior Jemaah Islamiyah leader and bomb maker, an Indonesian identified as Zulkifli, who ordered the bombings in Davao. Adan also charged that an Indonesian Jemaah Islamiyah member, Abdul Jabidi, had supplied the explosives used in the Davao attacks as well as three other bombing elsewhere on the southern island of Mindanao between 2002 and 2004.