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...SENTENCED. INDERJIT SINGH REYAT, 50, Sikh activist involved in the June 1985 mid-air bombing of an Air India flight that killed all 329 people aboard, to five years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to manslaughter; in Vancouver. Reyat admitted acquiring materials for the bomb, but denies knowing who built it and what it was to be used for. Reyat has already served a 10-year sentence in Britain for his involvement in a foiled attempt to blow up another Air India flight on the same day. The bombings were believed to be retaliation against the Indian government after it ordered...
Poor and lawless, the southern Philippine region of Mindanao has for decades hosted criminal gangs engaging in everything from gunrunning to extortion to kidnapping. It has also provided a haven for insurgent groups seeking to establish Islamic or communist states. Hardly a week goes by without a firefight, a bomb attack or a snatching. Just last Tuesday, the Philippine military unleashed yet another full-scale offensive near the town of Pikit against Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) militants, resulting in the deaths of at least 160 guerrillas and eight soldiers, and prompting the exodus of some 40,000 civilians...
...have porous maritime borders with Mindanao.) Over recent weeks, Malaysian police have detained six suspects in the town of Sandakan in Borneo for arranging the transport of JI recruits to Mindanao. Meanwhile, Indonesian police say that several of the 18 men arrested for plotting and executing the Dec. 5 bombing of a McDonald's outlet in Makassar in South Sulawesi province have confessed to being trained in Mindanao. And investigators now allege a link between the Mindanao camps and the Bali bomb plot. "Mindanao is where the Bali bombers tried to get weapons for other operations," says a member...
...expertise in explosives and demolitions. After returning to Mindanao, he headed the MILF's Special Operation Group at Camp Bushra. But Muklis always served as a point man for JI within the MILF. According to al-Ghozi's own testimony, Muklis was a principal player in the wave of bomb blasts that tore through Manila on Dec. 30, 2000. Philippine intelligence also reports he was involved in an October 2002 bus bombing in the capital. "If there are any Indonesian connections to Mindanao, then this is the group they're dealing with," says Gonzales. "The key person is Muklis...
...questions arise because the evidence presented by Philippine intelligence sources is circumstantial at best. Last Oct. 9, police found an "improvised explosive device" in Zamboanga City. Attached was a mobile phone that appeared to be rigged to trigger the unexploded bomb. Investigators discovered that the phone had registered an incoming call from another mobile (which they believe was an attempt to detonate the explosive). Philippine intelligence sources say that several calls had been made from that second phone to senior Abu Sayyaf figures. There was also a single call to Husain made...