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| Southeast Asia |
| Abu Sayyaf bomber captured |
| 2005-09-29 |
| Soldiers and police arrested a suspected bomber and seized an explosive device with a mobile phone trigger in a southern Philippine province, police said Thursday. Kasan Datukon, 29, was nabbed early Wednesday during a routine inspection at a road checkpoint in Pigcawayan town in North Cotabato province, on the main southern island of Mindanao, police chief Senior Inspector Raulito Soyum said. Three other men who boarded the minibus with Datukon also were held for questioning, Soyum said in an interview with DXMS radio. Maj. Gen. Agustin Dema-ala, commander of the army's 6th Infantry Division, said the bomb was made from a 60 mm mortar round attached to a mobile phone. Datukon placed the bomb inside a bag on the floor at the front seat of the minibus that was headed to Cotabato city, Soyum said. The suspect later offered his seat to an old man and transferred to the roof of the vehicle with other passengers, a practice common in remote areas where transportation is difficult, Soyum said. The bag was discovered at the checkpoint and the driver immediately pointed to Datukon as the owner. The device was rigged to explode with a call from another cell phone carried by Datukon, Soyum said. Dema-ala believes Datukon is a member or a recruit of the al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group and trained in bomb-making by operatives of Jemaah Islamiyah, an Indonesian-based terror group also active in the southern Philippines. He said the bomb was similar to other improvised explosive devices discovered or set off in several southern cities, and traced back to the Abu Sayyaf. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 PS. Do we have the ability to blow up certain mobile phones yet? hehehe. You know, I think you've got something here, disrupt cell service and not only are their "Triggers" disabled, but the baddies can't communicate. That triggers a thought, issue cell phones to the assorted "Good Guys" such as firemen, police, etc that work on a different frequency, whenever anything goes "Boom" disable ALL other (Civilian)cell phones, then the baddies can't set off any others, or communicate, but the good guys can. That should put a serious crimp in any "Secondary" boomers. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-29 14:10 |
| #2 Wrong numbers would sure be a bummer, wouldn't they? The unemployment rate in the Philippines is what? Maybe the government should do something about that... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-09-29 12:48 |
| #1 Has anyone else noticed that everyone, no matter where they are, is carry a 60mm mortar round attached to a mobile phone? Hmm. I wonder if they're profiling? PS. Do we have the ability to blow up certain mobile phones yet? hehehe. |
| Posted by: Rosemary 2005-09-29 08:32 |