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3 suspected Abu Sayyaf killed
PNP links slain suspects to Batasan bombing
By Alcuin Papa, Jeannette Andrade
Inquirer
Posted date: November 16, 2007
MANILA, Philippines -- Police on Thursday shot dead three Abu Sayyaf suspects and arrested three others in a raid in Quezon City that yielded evidence purportedly showing the group was involved in the deadly Batasan bomb attack.
One of those killed in the Payatas raid was a woman.
“We believe there is a link between the suspects and the blast because of the items we have recovered,” the chief of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), Director Geary Barias, told reporters.
One police officer was wounded in the raid.
Barias identified one of those arrested as Ikram Indana and said police recovered from him a House of Representatives identification card which “indicated” he was working in the office of a Deputy Speaker.
Supposedly written on the ID were the words: “Legislative staff assistant III” and “Office of the Deputy Speaker for Mindanao.”
Deputy Speaker for Mindanao Simeon Datumanong denied knowing Indana.
“The suspect is not an employee in my office. I do not even know him. His ID could be issued before I became Deputy Speaker,” Datumanong said in a text message.
Datumanong assumed his post after the newly elected House organized its leadership following the May elections.
The previous Deputy Speaker for Mindanao was former Basilan Rep. Gerry Salapuddin.
Police also recovered a license plate for a motorcycle as well as a deed of sale with a chassis number that matched that of the motorcycle used in the Batasan bombing that killed Basilan Rep. Wahab Akbar and three other people.
No. 8
The chassis number from the document matched the chassis number on the manufacturer’s bar code recovered from the motorcycle used in the Tuesday night blast, Barias said.
A car license plate with the No. “8” -- the number assigned to House members -- was also recovered, according to Barias.
Police claimed they recovered more.
These included residue of suspected bomb-making chemicals which was found after a dog from a canine unit detected traces of chemicals in a car.
Asked how such voluminous evidence could be found in one place, PNP Director General Avelino Razon told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net): “We are just doing our job. The public should be happy. The reward helped us solve the case. We should all help one another maintain peace and quiet.”
Razon said the PNP received a tip on the location of the suspects after Malacañang announced a P5-million reward for information that could lead police to the Batasan bombers.
Quezon City police director, Senior Supt. Magtanggol Gatdula, said investigators would have to determine if the chemicals matched those of the explosive device used in the Batasan blast.
Black jacket
A black jacket marked “House of Representatives” was also found inside a closet in one of the rooms on the second floor of the supposed safehouse.
Another item recovered was a souvenir shirt of the House of Representatives.
The tampered ‘8’ plate was found inside the trunk of a metallic gray Toyota Corolla with plate No. JBP-878 parked outside the group’s suspected safehouse, police said.
Supt. Constante Agpaoa, Station 6 commander, said the jacket was relevant because two men aboard two motorcycles who were seen fleeing from the Batasan complex after the bombing were clad in black jackets.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hailed the police raid.
“She has commended the combined elements of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the Payatas raid which provided a significant breakthrough in the Batasan blast investigation,” Press Secretary Bunye said in a statement.
“She also commended the informants who tipped off the authorities,” Bunye added.
Welcomed by gunfire
The shootout broke out after police swooped down on the group’s safehouse.
The left wrist of Special Action Force member Police Officer 3 Rolando Bukas was shattered when police teams rushed to the purported Abu Sayyaf lair at Block 4, Anahaw Street, Violago Homes Subdivision, Group 14 Barangay Payatas B at around 4:30 p.m.
The raiding team was greeted by gunfire, police said.
Bukas was brought to the FEU Hospital and transferred to the PNP Hospital in Camp Crame.
Those killed were identified as a certain Pakir Said, alias Abu Jandal, a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf, Redwan Indama, and his wife identified only as Saing.
Modus operandi
Jandal was supposedly the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a Basilan court for kidnapping and illegal detention.
The three men captured by the teams of the Special Action Force, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-NCR and the Quezon City Police District Explosive and Ordinance Division were identified as Khaidar Awnal, Ikram Indana and Adham Kusain.
The identification card bore the name of Ikram Indana.
Gatdula said police strongly suspected Jandal and his group were behind the Batasan blast.
“It all started from the (chassis) bar code and a study of the style of the attack at the Batasan complex,” Gatdula said.
He pointed out that the group’s modus operandi was reviewed and compared to previous bombing attacks in Mindanao where motorcycles were used.
Moonlighting as assassins
Gatdula said the group had been staying in the house for two weeks, which fit the timeline of the attack.
A source requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media said the Batasan complex blast was the handiwork of the ASG bandits working as individuals.
“That was the work of the ASG but not as a group,” the source said, adding that the members of the group could be moonlighting as assassins for profit.
Sophisticated bomb
Razon said the police had gone to the place to serve the warrant on Jandal.
Police also recovered a gun used by the suspects, Razon said.
Chief Supt. Leocadio Santiago, head of the SAF, said the SAF members from the First Special Battalion were “heavily armed with the works, their usual equipment.”
As of press time, police were conducting clearing operations in and around the house to make sure there were no bombs in the area.
Razon said the “sophisticated” bomb used in the House blast was intended for a selected target.
Preliminary police findings indicate the bomber was experienced and bolstered the police theory that the explosion was aimed specifically at Akbar.
“The one who made this bomb was pretty experienced. It was sophisticated,” Razon said, citing the way the bomb went off to create a 180-degree blast arc to hit Akbar as he was departing the Batasan building.
Barias said police found signs of a detonating cord at the blast site, adding that this had prompted police to order a review of the system for monitoring the sale of TNT and detonating cords.
Razon said he doubted the bombing was a terrorist attack aimed at general destruction.
Police believe the bomb was intended for Akbar. With reports from Christine O. Avendaño and Agence France-Presse
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3 suspected Abu Sayyaf killed
PNP links slain suspects to Batasan bombing
By Alcuin Papa, Jeannette Andrade
Inquirer
Posted date: November 16, 2007
MANILA, Philippines -- Police on Thursday shot dead three Abu Sayyaf suspects and arrested three others in a raid in Quezon City that yielded evidence purportedly showing the group was involved in the deadly Batasan bomb attack.
One of those killed in the Payatas raid was a woman.
“We believe there is a link between the suspects and the blast because of the items we have recovered,” the chief of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), Director Geary Barias, told reporters.
One police officer was wounded in the raid.
Barias identified one of those arrested as Ikram Indana and said police recovered from him a House of Representatives identification card which “indicated” he was working in the office of a Deputy Speaker.
Supposedly written on the ID were the words: “Legislative staff assistant III” and “Office of the Deputy Speaker for Mindanao.”
Deputy Speaker for Mindanao Simeon Datumanong denied knowing Indana.
“The suspect is not an employee in my office. I do not even know him. His ID could be issued before I became Deputy Speaker,” Datumanong said in a text message.
Datumanong assumed his post after the newly elected House organized its leadership following the May elections.
The previous Deputy Speaker for Mindanao was former Basilan Rep. Gerry Salapuddin.
Police also recovered a license plate for a motorcycle as well as a deed of sale with a chassis number that matched that of the motorcycle used in the Batasan bombing that killed Basilan Rep. Wahab Akbar and three other people.
No. 8
The chassis number from the document matched the chassis number on the manufacturer’s bar code recovered from the motorcycle used in the Tuesday night blast, Barias said.
A car license plate with the No. “8” -- the number assigned to House members -- was also recovered, according to Barias.
Police claimed they recovered more.
These included residue of suspected bomb-making chemicals which was found after a dog from a canine unit detected traces of chemicals in a car.
Asked how such voluminous evidence could be found in one place, PNP Director General Avelino Razon told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net): “We are just doing our job. The public should be happy. The reward helped us solve the case. We should all help one another maintain peace and quiet.”
Razon said the PNP received a tip on the location of the suspects after Malacañang announced a P5-million reward for information that could lead police to the Batasan bombers.
Quezon City police director, Senior Supt. Magtanggol Gatdula, said investigators would have to determine if the chemicals matched those of the explosive device used in the Batasan blast.
Black jacket
A black jacket marked “House of Representatives” was also found inside a closet in one of the rooms on the second floor of the supposed safehouse.
Another item recovered was a souvenir shirt of the House of Representatives.
The tampered ‘8’ plate was found inside the trunk of a metallic gray Toyota Corolla with plate No. JBP-878 parked outside the group’s suspected safehouse, police said.
Supt. Constante Agpaoa, Station 6 commander, said the jacket was relevant because two men aboard two motorcycles who were seen fleeing from the Batasan complex after the bombing were clad in black jackets.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hailed the police raid.
“She has commended the combined elements of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the Payatas raid which provided a significant breakthrough in the Batasan blast investigation,” Press Secretary Bunye said in a statement.
“She also commended the informants who tipped off the authorities,” Bunye added.
Welcomed by gunfire
The shootout broke out after police swooped down on the group’s safehouse.
The left wrist of Special Action Force member Police Officer 3 Rolando Bukas was shattered when police teams rushed to the purported Abu Sayyaf lair at Block 4, Anahaw Street, Violago Homes Subdivision, Group 14 Barangay Payatas B at around 4:30 p.m.
The raiding team was greeted by gunfire, police said.
Bukas was brought to the FEU Hospital and transferred to the PNP Hospital in Camp Crame.
Those killed were identified as a certain Pakir Said, alias Abu Jandal, a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf, Redwan Indama, and his wife identified only as Saing.
Modus operandi
Jandal was supposedly the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a Basilan court for kidnapping and illegal detention.
The three men captured by the teams of the Special Action Force, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-NCR and the Quezon City Police District Explosive and Ordinance Division were identified as Khaidar Awnal, Ikram Indana and Adham Kusain.
The identification card bore the name of Ikram Indana.
Gatdula said police strongly suspected Jandal and his group were behind the Batasan blast.
“It all started from the (chassis) bar code and a study of the style of the attack at the Batasan complex,” Gatdula said.
He pointed out that the group’s modus operandi was reviewed and compared to previous bombing attacks in Mindanao where motorcycles were used.
Moonlighting as assassins
Gatdula said the group had been staying in the house for two weeks, which fit the timeline of the attack.
A source requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media said the Batasan complex blast was the handiwork of the ASG bandits working as individuals.
“That was the work of the ASG but not as a group,” the source said, adding that the members of the group could be moonlighting as assassins for profit.
Sophisticated bomb
Razon said the police had gone to the place to serve the warrant on Jandal.
Police also recovered a gun used by the suspects, Razon said.
Chief Supt. Leocadio Santiago, head of the SAF, said the SAF members from the First Special Battalion were “heavily armed with the works, their usual equipment.”
As of press time, police were conducting clearing operations in and around the house to make sure there were no bombs in the area.
Razon said the “sophisticated” bomb used in the House blast was intended for a selected target.
Preliminary police findings indicate the bomber was experienced and bolstered the police theory that the explosion was aimed specifically at Akbar.
“The one who made this bomb was pretty experienced. It was sophisticated,” Razon said, citing the way the bomb went off to create a 180-degree blast arc to hit Akbar as he was departing the Batasan building.
Barias said police found signs of a detonating cord at the blast site, adding that this had prompted police to order a review of the system for monitoring the sale of TNT and detonating cords.
Razon said he doubted the bombing was a terrorist attack aimed at general destruction.
Police believe the bomb was intended for Akbar. With reports from Christine O. Avendaño and Agence France-Presse
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