Man Arrested With Christmas Day Bomb
Pictured above, a different kind of MILF, the terrorist type.
Christmas isn’t holy to jihadis and so they have no qualms about blowing people up for Christmas.
POLICE in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato have arrested an Egyptian man allegedly plotting a bomb attack on Christmas day.
The suspect, identified as Egyptian national Mohamad Sayed, was arrested during a raid on an apartment inside the Majad Islamic School in Cotabato.
Recovered from his room was an explosive device fashioned from a 60mm mortar shell and ball bearings attached to a timing device, which was later safely detonated.
Sayed, who also goes by the alias Abu Husein, was undergoing interrogation at police headquarters in Cotabato, said local police chief Superintendent Willie Dangane.
Mr Dangane said the Egyptian was captured after surveillance by the police and military.
He said intelligence reports indicated Mr Sayed planned to detonate the bomb at an undisclosed location in the city on Christmas Day.
It was not clear whether he was acting alone or was affiliated with any groups.
Among the items recovered from his room was a booklet on the organisation of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a rebel group that has been fighting to set up an Islamic state in the southern Philippines.
Mr Dangane said they had no evidence to connect Sayed to the MILF.
MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu said “we have no information who this guy is, nor has he talked to any of our officials”.
“What I know is that there are many Egyptian missionaries in the city,” he added.
The MILF signed a truce to negotiate peace with the Philippine government three years ago but the 12,000-strong rebel group recently postponed the latest round of peace talks.
Prior to agreeing to the peace talks with Manila, the MILF in the past had admitted that foreign “students” had studied in its religious schools.
It has repeatedly denied formal links with foreign militants, including those with the al-Qaida linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group and the Abu Sayyaf.
The Abu Sayyaf’s size has been reduced to the low hundreds from a high of more than 1000 fighters five years ago, military officials have said.
Remnants from the group are however believed to be hiding out in the southern islands with JI militants Dulmatin and Umar Patek, Indonesian nationals wanted for the October 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia.
In 1997, an Egyptian and a Pakistani attacked a military camp near Cotabato City, throwing grenades. They were shot by soldiers.
The military charged that they had just come from an MILF camp before the attack.
(Newsau)
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Bet that he got waterboarded and nobody gave two shits…
Of course, they then cut his balls off, threw him in a ditch for the rats to feast on as he bled out and he’ll be forgotten by tomorrow.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:00 pmMy, my another Jihadi trying to convert the world. Will the luv never end?
December 19th, 2007 at 2:38 pmI prefer the other MILFs…
December 20th, 2007 at 7:13 am