Posted on 04/23/2002 9:24:34 PM PDT by Vigilant1
24 Apr 2002 03:45
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines, April 24 (Reuters) - Police on Wednesday arrested three more Muslim suspects for lethal bombings in a southern Philippine city and said they were investigating the group's possible links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
The three were arrested in pre-dawn raids on their hideout in General Santos city, where police seized about four kg (nine pounds) of bomb-making materials, regional police chief Colonel Bartolome Baluyot said.
"We are looking into the possibility that they might have a connection with groups like al Qaeda," Baluyot told Reuters, referring to bin Laden's network which the United States blames for the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
The arrests brought to five the number of suspected Muslim militants accused in Sunday's bombings of a shopping mall and a residential area that killed 15 people and injured more than 50 others in the largely Christian city of General Santos.
An alleged operations officer of the Abu Sayyaf guerrillas -- also linked by Washington to al Qaeda -- has claimed responsibility for the bombings. Baluyot said police were investigating the man's claims, made in a call to a local radio station.
Give them a fair trial. Then torture them for information. And then execute them. All within three months. This must become the SOP when dealing with these monsters.
I have a feeling they might have muslim names.
Followed by..."Siggy Na!"
Click here: Islamic_Violence
Just look at Jamaican/English "shoe bomber" Richard Reed.
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