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Suspected Pakistani militant nabbed in Philippines
AP - 51 minutes ago
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine security forces have arrested a suspected Pakistani bomb maker in the country's volatile south where Muslim militants are active, the national police chief said Wednesday.
Police and military agents swooped down on a rented watch shop in Shariff Kabunsuan town on Mindanao island on Tuesday and arrested owner Muhammad Alfariz, said police Director General Jesus Verzosa.
Alfariz allegedly possessed mortar shells, wires, a cell phone and other bomb-making material, and may have already assembled several explosive devices, Verzosa said.
He said the suspect was being interrogated in connection with a plot to bomb several targets in Mindanao, where suspected al-Qaida-linked militants are based and Muslim separatist rebels have fought a decades-long insurgency.
Following weeks of surveillance a regional court issued a warrant for Alfariz's arrest after police convinced the judge that the suspect was keeping a cache of explosives in the shop, Verzosa said.
Details of the suspect's alleged affiliation with militants were murky, but police initially suspected he may have links with the Indonesian-based regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.
Security officials said last month that about 30 Indonesian recruits of Jemaah Islamiyah and 28 other extremists from unspecified countries are on the run in Mindanao.
Washington has offered huge rewards for the capture or death of some of the foreign militants believed to be hiding in the southern Philippines, including Dulmatin, an Indonesian who goes by one name, and compatriot Umar Patek. Both men have been accused of involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings in Indonesia that killed 202 people.
In the late 1990s, Jemaah Islamiyah set up a number of terrorist training camps in the mountainous heartland of Mindanao with the help of local guerrillas, but they were discovered and destroyed a few years later by government forces.
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