http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167225,00.html
AP
"Philippines Official: We Can't Stop Inflow of Terrorist Money"
Saturday, August 27, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MANILA, Philippines — Funds are flowing in for terrorist operations in the Philippines, mostly from the Middle East, a senior security official said Saturday while admitting authorities were unable to stop it.
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales (search) said the money could be going to Jemaah Islamiyah, an Indonesia-based terror group linked to Al Qaeda (search) that is accused of training terrorists in the Philippines.
Speaking on Vice President Noli de Castro's radio program, Gonzales said Indonesian authorities warned that 10 Jemaah Islamiyah members slipped into the Philippines for a suicide mission, with two believed to be in the capital, Manila (search).
"We have not yet captured the suicide bombers, and money continues to flow in that we cannot stop," he said. "I cannot say how we are able to find out, but I can say that money is coming in and (bombing) materials are being purchased."
He declined to give details but indicated couriers take advantage of the busy traffic between the Philippines and the Middle East, where hundreds of thousands of Filipinos work.
He told the Associated Press that both visitors from the Middle East and returning Filipinos serve as money couriers. "What we are looking at is the regularity of it, which means there is continuing operations now," he said."
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http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/js2441.htm
FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
May 12, 2005
JS-2441
"Treasury Designates Jemaah Islamiyah’s Emir, Top Bomb
Maker and Military Commander"
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated three individuals for their role in Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a terrorist group in Southeast Asia with links to al Qaida."
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003150.php
September 10, 2004
"Muslim Terror Group Says It Bombed Embassy in Indonesia"
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/js700.htm?IMAGE.X=24/
FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
September 5, 2003
JS-700
"Snow Announces Designation of 10 Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Terrorists"
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "In a press conference at the APEC Meeting in Phuket, Thailand, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow announced that the United States is today designating 10 members of Jemaah Islamiyah, or JI, a South Asian terrorist group with significant links to al-Qaida, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Executive Order 13224. The U.S. is also submitting these individuals to the United Nations for designation by all UN member states as al-Qaida terrorists."
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/2005/08/terrorism-us-training-southeast-asian.html
Jim Kouri is Vice President of the
National Association of Chiefs of Police
Saturday, August 27, 2005
"Terrorism: US Training Southeast Asian Security Forces"
by Jim Kouri, CPP
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Bush Administration has bolstered assistance to the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand in hopes of contributing to US foreign policy and security goals especially in the war on terrorism. But in order to further human rights goals, Congress restricts certain security assistance funds from being provided to any units of foreign security forces when credible evidence exists that units have committed gross violations of human rights such as "death squads," unlawful and brutal interrogation techniques and other suspected violations."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167244,00.html
AP
"Bomb on Philippines Ferry Injures 30"
Sunday, August 28, 2005
MANILA, Philippines —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Military spokesman Lt. Col. Buenaventura Pascual said in Manila that a homemade bomb was placed in a trash can. Brig. Gen. Raymundo Ferrer, who rushed to the scene, said a firebomb may have gone off near the ferry's canteen, citing a statement by the skipper and the nature of the victims' wounds.
"It's an IED," said Ferrer, the army commander in Basilan, referring to an improvised explosive device — the military term for homemade bombs."
ARTICLE SNIPPET#2: "Ferrer said the ship's security measures included two soldiers who stood at a gangplank to inspect incoming passengers.
A bomb went off on a ferry in Manila Bay last year, killing 116 people in the country's worst terror attack. Two bombs injured 30 people in southern Zamboanga city early this month. Both attacks have been blamed on the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group."