http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews <http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005- 08-10T165423Z_01_N10499180_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-PHILIPPINES-EXPLOSIONS-DC .XML> &storyID=2005-08-10T165423Z_01_N10499180_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-PHILIPPINES -EXPLOSIONS-DC.XML Bombs wound 26 in southern Philippines Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:54 PM ET
By Manny Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded in the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga on Wednesday, wounding 26 people, in attacks which security forces blamed on Muslim militants. The first bomb, which exploded in a parked jeep, damaged shops and wounded 14 people. The second, in a room of a nearby hotel, wounded 12. "These explosions appear to be terror attacks," military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Buenaventura Pascual said, adding that a third bomb was found in the area but did not explode. "These could be the handiwork of the Jemaah Islamiah or Abu Sayyaf because of our intense manhunt in Maguindanao," he said, referring to a central province of Mindanao island where the militants are believed to be hiding. Abu Sayyaf is a Philippine guerrilla group with links to Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian network aligned with al Qaeda, authorities say. Abu Sayyaf is blamed for the country's worst terror attack, when an explosion and fire aboard a ferry in February 2004 killed more than 100 people. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks in Zamboanga. The bombs went off as officials were counting votes from Monday's election in five Muslim provinces for governor of an autonomous region on Mindanao. The military said the attacks were not related to the elections. Zamboanga, which is not part of the autonomous Muslim region, is the staging point of all military operations on Mindanao, which Muslims in the mainly Roman Catholic country consider as their ancestral homeland. Apart from four homegrown Muslim rebel groups in the southern Philippines, criminal gangs extorting money have carried out bomb attacks in the region. The last time Zamboanga came under attack was in October 2002 when a series of explosions killed 13 people, including a U.S. Army special forces soldier. Philippine security forces said Abu Sayyaf, working closely with Jemaah Islamiah, was behind those attacks. (With reporting by Dolly Aglay) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h8rckgb/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123703612/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
