82 Jl militants in AFP battle list
AT LEAST 82 Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl) terrorists in Mindanao are in the military's order of battle.
Armed Forces Southern Command Chief Lt. Gen. Edilberto Adan said the terrorists from Indonesia could have already left the Philippines.
"More or less 82 (Jl) are listed in our order of battle," Adan said. "But the question is, are they still in 'the Philippines? They may or may not be." We are not very sure because they could move - they could go outside the country. The Jl terrorists change their names after they have sneaked into the country, he said.
Adan said Dulmatin, a key suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia that killed 202 mostly Australian tourists, is in the long list. The strategy of Australia is to move the battle against the terrorists down to their breeding ground, parts of which are in Mindanao.
"Australia also realized - that again their citizens were victims - and since it possible the Jl perpetrators were trained in the Philippines, it is their interest as well to help the Philippines in preventing, denying the use of Philippine territory in the training of their regional terrorists of Jl," he said.
Adan said he viewed the strategy of visiting Australian Minister of Defense Robert Mill to fight terrorists was the right one.
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"We know of others who may be planning to," he added. "I don't think there's anything we can do legally to prevent this."
Judd, who said CSIS had informed the U.S. government, made the comments at a conference of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies.
Contacted by Sun Media last night, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office directed inquiries to Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan even though CBC-TV had reported that Prime Minister Paul Martin's first reaction was one of anger when informed of Judd's comments.
Alex Swann, a spokesman for McLellan played down the comments by the spy agency boss, saying Judd alluded to the participation of Canadian radicals in the Iraqi insurgency when he appeared before a special Senate committee reviewing terrorism last March 7.
Judds remarks prompted an immediate response from Conservative foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day, who said the Martin government "must do everything possible to condemn and discourage" such activity.
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