KOTA KINABALU: An Indonesian couple linked to Sabah who Daily Express reported might have been accomplices in last Monday's suicide bombings in Sulu are now wanted by Philippine authorities for those and last year's attacks.
The Zamboanga City government on Saturday offered 3 million Philippine pesos for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Andi Baso (aged 17-35), his wife Resky Fantasya, also known by her alias Cici (aged 17-22) and also Abu Sayyaf sub-leader and bombaker Mundi Sawadjaan, a Filipino tagged as the planner of the attacks.
“The community is advised to be vigilant and immediately report any suspicious person or local terrorist,” urged Zamboanga City Mayor Beng Climaco on her Facebook.
The Philippine military said two Abu Sayyaf militants’ widows carried out the twin bombings that killed at least 15 people and wounded 75 others near a church, which was suicide-bombed by Cici’s Indonesian parents in January last year.
In the Daily Express report on Friday, Indonesian terrorism researcher Ulta Levenia Nababan urged Philippine authorities to be cautious against Andi and Cici, who she said had got married in Sabah before they were smuggled to southern Philippines.
Ulta said Andi, who is recruiting Indonesians back home to join him with the Abu Sayyaf in southern Philippines, and Cici had possible roles in the latest bombings.
Daily Express also reported an Indonesian counter-terrorism official as saying that Andi, Cici, her 11-year-old sister and brother, 12, are being coddled by the group of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the acting leader of the Islamic State terror group in the Philippines and Mundi’s uncle.
When asked to respond to the reward and public alert issued by the city, Ulta urged the Philippine authorities and public to beware of the Abu Sayyaf using children as suicide bombers, a development that has not taken place in the Philippines but was a common occurrence during the Islamic State’s heyday in Syria and Iraq.
“There are not only the Indonesian kids but also a 14-year-old Moroccan child. There is a possibility that these kids also will be used for Abu Sayyaf activities,” Ulta told Daily Express on Saturday.
“The Indonesian children will be dictated by Andi and Cici and will not be able to take action unless indoctrinated, initiated, equipped and dispatched by their supervisors like the 2018 Surabaya bombers.
“So the Philippine authorities should really be looking out for the adults, the main source of terror, not the ‘tools’ like those kids.”
Two families linked to the the pro-Islamic State Jamaah Ansharud Dawlah terror network blew themselves up at churches and a police station, killing more than a dozen people in the 2018 Surabaya incidents.
The Zamboanga City government on Saturday offered 3 million Philippine pesos for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Andi Baso (aged 17-35), his wife Resky Fantasya, also known by her alias Cici (aged 17-22) and also Abu Sayyaf sub-leader and bombaker Mundi Sawadjaan, a Filipino tagged as the planner of the attacks.
“The community is advised to be vigilant and immediately report any suspicious person or local terrorist,” urged Zamboanga City Mayor Beng Climaco on her Facebook.
The Philippine military said two Abu Sayyaf militants’ widows carried out the twin bombings that killed at least 15 people and wounded 75 others near a church, which was suicide-bombed by Cici’s Indonesian parents in January last year.
In the Daily Express report on Friday, Indonesian terrorism researcher Ulta Levenia Nababan urged Philippine authorities to be cautious against Andi and Cici, who she said had got married in Sabah before they were smuggled to southern Philippines.
Ulta said Andi, who is recruiting Indonesians back home to join him with the Abu Sayyaf in southern Philippines, and Cici had possible roles in the latest bombings.
Daily Express also reported an Indonesian counter-terrorism official as saying that Andi, Cici, her 11-year-old sister and brother, 12, are being coddled by the group of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the acting leader of the Islamic State terror group in the Philippines and Mundi’s uncle.
When asked to respond to the reward and public alert issued by the city, Ulta urged the Philippine authorities and public to beware of the Abu Sayyaf using children as suicide bombers, a development that has not taken place in the Philippines but was a common occurrence during the Islamic State’s heyday in Syria and Iraq.
“There are not only the Indonesian kids but also a 14-year-old Moroccan child. There is a possibility that these kids also will be used for Abu Sayyaf activities,” Ulta told Daily Express on Saturday.
“The Indonesian children will be dictated by Andi and Cici and will not be able to take action unless indoctrinated, initiated, equipped and dispatched by their supervisors like the 2018 Surabaya bombers.
“So the Philippine authorities should really be looking out for the adults, the main source of terror, not the ‘tools’ like those kids.”
Two families linked to the the pro-Islamic State Jamaah Ansharud Dawlah terror network blew themselves up at churches and a police station, killing more than a dozen people in the 2018 Surabaya incidents.
http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/157748/philippines-urged-to-beware-of-potential-foreign-juvenile-suicide-attacks/
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