Posted on 07/29/2006 6:13:04 PM PDT by Valin
SECURITY forces captured three members of the Abu Sofia group implicated in the 2002 kidnapping of a South Korean citizen in the southern Philippines, officials said on Friday. Officials said policemen, backed by soldiers, stormed a terrorist hideout in the village of Bulalo in Maguindanao's Sultan Kudarat town and arrested the trio Thursday afternoon. "They are all under interrogation and the capture of the three men was the result of a long intelligence operation. We finally got them," said Col. Frank del Prado, a spokesman for the Army's 6th Infantry Division. He said soldiers seized automatic weapons from the three men who were linked to the kidnapping of Jae Keon Yoon and Filipino hotel owner Carlos Belonio in Palimbang town in Sultan Kudarat province in February 06, 2002.
Belonio was accompanying Yoon, a guest at his Tierra Verde Hotel, to buy nickel bars purportedly recovered from a Japanese wartime hoard when they were kidnapped. Yoon was freed after 22 weeks in captivity, while the Filipino had been released earlier after private negotiators allegedly paid huge ransom. Philippine authorities previously blamed the kidnapping to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Pentagon Gang, blamed for the spate of killings and abductions in the province. Del Prado said troops were tracking down other members of the Abu Sofia group, also tagged as behind the series of killings and bombings in the southern Philippines.
"The Abu Sofia is allied with the terrorist Abu Sayyaf group. The Sofia is known to provide sanctuary to members of the Abu Sayyaf and both groups are involved in terrorism. There is an operation against the terrorists," he said. Police in June 2002 had captured Ismael Binago, the deputy leader of the Abu Sofia, involved in Yoon's kidnapping, in the port city of General Santos, about 1,037 kilometers south of Manila. Police agents disguised themselves as beggars and egg peddlers for weeks to be able to penetrate the village where Binago was hiding and gather information about the Abu Sofia that led to his eventual arrest.
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>>>>The Abu Sofia is allied with the terrorist Abu Sayyaf group.
Abu Sayyaf coordinated meetings with Nichols and McVeigh.
Really? I didn't know that. (one of the many many many things I don't know :-) )
Do you have a link?
Islamic thugs in paradise bump
I'll find one. Give me a second.
Here is one:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310C.html
Excerpt:
Returning to the matter of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's new public role as 9/11 mastermind, his connection with Ramzi Yousef would also serve another purpose - linking Iraq to al-Qaida by way of Timothy McVeigh and the 1995 bombing of the FBI building in Oklahoma. The McVeigh-Iraqi thread, in fact, pre-dates the events of September 11 by a few years. In 1998, Timothy McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, had broached the existence of a videotaped interview with the co-founder of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group, a purported al-Qaida front based out of the Philippines. The Abu Sayyaf leader, Edwin Angeles, had turned police informant in February 1995 (a couple months before the Oklahoma bombing), becoming, in the words of Richard Parry of The Independent, "a deep penetration agent of the Marines and the Philippine National Police."
More at link
Thanks!
Is there a Jayna Davis or OK City ping list?
Is there a Jayna Davis or OK City ping list?
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Posts 77 and 78 even suggest Abu Sayyaf was involved in planning Oplan Bojinka
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts?page=77#77
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts?page=78#78
Terrorism in the Middle East
Law Enforcement Sensitive
New Trends in Financing (continued)
* Human trafficking
o Middle East (Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics)
+ Linked with organized crime—Russian Vory
o Cambodia, and Philippines
+ Linked with madrasas in Southeast Asia (children)
+ Linked with organized crime—Yakuza
+ A word about Abu Sayyaf
* Kidnapping and extortion
o Links to Hezb’Allah
o Links to FARC and ELN
Dang. As much as I follow this stuff, I never realized Abu Sayyaf had ties to the WTC and Ok City bombings.
Woah! Hezb’Allah!
Hezb’Allah
Dang. As much as I follow this stuff, I never realized Abu Sayyaf had ties to the WTC and Ok City bombings.
I know just what you mean.
Read Al Qaeda's playbook at: http://www.ctc.usma.edu/naji.asp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1608606/posts
Ramzi Yousef, Oklahoma City, and Al Qaeda: Linked in Documents?
Thanks.
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