Iraq diplomat linked to Zamboanga bombing

The Philippine Star ^ | 02/11/2003 | Efren Danao with Mike Frialde, Romel Bagares

[Terp]

A Philippine intelligence report has linked a senior Iraqi diplomat in Manila to a deadly bomb attack by the Abu Sayyaf in Zamboanga City that killed an American soldier and wounded another in October last year, Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas Ople said yesterday.

Ople made the disclosure to reporters after he summoned Iraqi Chargé d’Affaires Samir Bolus and informed him about the report on the diplomat, identified as Second Secretary Husham Hussain.

Citing a "highly detailed" report from the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, Ople said the NICA had traced cellular phone calls made by the Abu Sayyaf to Hussain.

"It appeared that immediately after the bombing, there was a call to the (Iraqi) embassy" by a man identified by the NICA as an Abu Sayyaf guerrilla, he said.

[Terp]

see link for the rest of the story

[piasa]

See also:

Iraqi Diplomat Linked to Rebel Bombing (Philippines)

[ppaul]

[Diddle E. Squat]

bump

[Cindy]

PHILIPPINE STAR: "IRAQ DIPLOMAT LINKED TO ZAMBOANGA BOMBING" (February 11, 2003)
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/index.htm

[tort_feasor]

Can anyone say Casus Belli?

[gaspar]

A leader of the Abu Sayyaf is Muhammad Jamal Khalifa, Osama Bin Laden's brother-in-law. Abu Sayyaf is named after Afghani Islamist Abdul Rsaul Sayyaf and is basically the brainchild of Libyan-trained Filipino Adburajak Janjalani who fought with other Filipino majahideen operating from Peshawar in the late nineteen eighties.

[judicial meanz]

Absolutely....

Now lets avenge that fine soldier with a little "street justice" !