4 terror group members arrested in Mindanao

From the Daily Tribune (Nov 9): 4 terror group members arrested in Mindanao

Four members of an alleged terror network group were arrested by police operatives during separate operations in Agusan del Sur and Mindanao province.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Alan Purisima identified the notorious senior leader of the Al-Khobar Group as Jabide Abdul aka Zabide or Beds.

He was arrested at 2 p.m. last Thursday in Barangay Titulok, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat by joint operatives of Task-Force Sanglahi-Alpha composed of operatives from the Regional Intelligence Unit -12 of the PNP Intelligence Group and Special Project Mindanao Khilafa Islamiya (SPMKI) and the Regional Public Safety Battalion-12.

Abdul, who has a P3.3-million reward for his arrest, is said to be behind the string of deadly bomb attacks in Central Mindanao over the last seven years that killed at least 31 persons and 145 others wounded.

The arresting teams were armed with warrants of arrest issued by the RTC Branch 17 of Kidapawan City, RTC Branch 16 of Kabacan, Cotabato and RTC Branch 19 of Digos City for the crimes of multiple murder, multiple frustrated murder, multiple attempted murder and destruction of property.

The notorious Al-Khobar Group led by Abdul is tagged as responsible in the following terrorist activities, namely, the Oct. 10, 2006 bombing of a crowded in Makilala, North Cotabato during the town’s founding anniversary that killed six persons and 40 wounded.

The PNP also said that Abdul and his group were also responsible in the bombing of a Weena Bus at the Cotabato Terminal that killed three and 15 others wounded on May 10, 2007; three separate bombings of Yellow Bus Line units in Sultan Kudarat that killed one and four wounded in July and August 2007.

He was also behind the bombing in Kidapawan that killed one person on Aug. 5, 2007; the 2007 Bombing of Sugni Superstore in Kabacan, North Cotabato; bombing at Philbest Canning Corp. in Tambler, General Santos City that killed four and wounded 28 on Jan. 30, 2008; the bombing of a Metro Shuttle Bus in Digos City that killed six and wounded 30 on April 2, 2008; the bombing of a passenger van in Midsayap, North Cotabato that wounded four persons in May 2008; and two more bombings in Davao del Sur that killed 10 and in Kidapawan City that wounded nine persons.

According the Villacorta, the Al-Khobar Goup continued its extortion and bombing operations targeting local bus companies as well as NGCP transmission lines in North Cotabato.

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