[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas ( PRO-7) has alerted people on possible terrorist attacks in Region 7 after it received reports that six members of the bandit group Abu Sayaff group arrived in Cebu last Friday.
Supt. Julian Entoma, chief of the Regional Intelligence Division, said the group was led by one Commander Messiah.
"Based on our monitoring, they came here to abduct prominent personalities although bombing malls and other establishments may also be one of their aims," he said.
Entoma said the members of the Abu Sayaff allegedly left Cebu on Sunday but police Sherlocks were not sure if six members of the terrorist group returned home in Mindanao.
"We continue to monitor. We already asked help from the Moslem communities in Cebu as well as the security managements of malls, lodges, and beach resorts," he said.
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[Inquirer] 32 Abu Sayyaf militants surrendered to Philippine troops on Monday. They included a 10-year-old boy, identified only as Tony, who said he could operate an M4 Carbine assault rifle. Tony surrendered with his older brother Halid and nine others.
Their group of 11 was led by Moton Indama, a cousin of Abu Sayyaf leader Furuji Indama. Moton had about 30 followers but only 11 surrendered because "they were afraid to join me. They were afraid that after surrendering, we will all be killed," he said. Tony, whose parents were killed in a military operation, said another older brother opted not to surrender.
21 militants from another Abu Sayyaf faction, the Baiwas group, also gave themselves up. One of them, Weller Baliyung, said, "We want to live like civilians where we can roam freely in our town together with our families."
Baliyung said food supplies and other support for the war had been dwindling due to the nonstop military operations. He said, "We have lost so many comrades. We still want to live and see our families."
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[Bangkok Post] A woman was killed and 18 people injured, some critically, by a bomb placed outside a Pattani noodle shop on the anniversary of the 2004 Tak Bai incident.
The bomb tore through the noodle shop early Monday evening in Pattani town, just south of Tak Bai district in neighboring Narathiwat province. Police officer Yutthakarn Chitmanee said, "One woman was killed, a Thai Buddhist, and 18 were injured."
The noodle shop was left a twisted wreck by the blast. Eyewitnesses said there were multiple casualties, and many seemed to be life-threatening injuries.
The attack occurred the evening before the anniversary of the deaths of 85 Muslim men arrested and packed into trucks by security forces sent to Tak Bai to break up an anti-government protest. The victims smothered to death when "stacked like cordwood" in the back of trucks taking the bound men to the notorious Ingkayut Borihan Military Camp.
A judicial inquest found the Thaksin Shinawatra government and the military responsible for the deaths. No arrests ever have been made. The incident has caused deep resentment by the Muslim majority in the region.
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