Now ain’t he a long way from home ...
The Philippines has detained a Pakistani national as a terror suspect after stopping his second attempt to cross the country’s southern maritime border with Malaysia, the Coast Guard said on Wednesday. Muhammad Mubashir Khan, 25, was arrested on Monday as he stepped from a boat onto a wharf in Mapun, a small and remote island, the Coast Guard said. It was his second attempt to enter the Philippines from the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah.
| "Hi, there, Moh! Back again, I see! Stick 'em up! You know the drill..." |
"We’re still investigating," said Lieutenant Armand Balilo, the Coast Guard spokesman. "It’s too soon to say whether he belongs to an Islamic militant group. We want to make sure."
| "Instead of 99 percent sure, like we are now..." |
Balilo said foreign nationals entering the country’s southern backdoor are considered "high risk" by the Bureau of Immigration and could be linked with international terror groups.
Well, if the shoe fits ...
Khan was first stopped by Coast Guard personnel on a boat en route to the port of Zamboanga City from Sandakan in Sabah on January 7. Before he was deported to Malaysia, Khan showed a letter from a Filipino girlfriend inviting him for a visit in Cavite, a province in the northern island of Luzon.
"Yeah! I ain't no terrorist! I'm just horny!"
"Oh, yeah? Are you happy to see us or is that a bomb in your pocket?" |
Balilo said officials were also looking into reports the Pakistani visited other areas in the southern Philippines last month.
Like the MILF camps in Mindanao, mayhaps? |