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October 20, 2003
Bio-terror link in raid on JI hideout

Sydney Morning Herald/AFP:
Security forces recovered a bio-terror manual and traces of possible biological weapons in a raid on a Jemaah Islamiah hideout in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato, the army said today.

Local police said up to eight local and foreign JI suspects escaped yesterday's raid in central Cotabato but left behind what vice chief of staff Lieutenant General Rodolfo Garcia described as possible residues of a "tetanus virus-carrying chemical".

A "bio-terror manual" was also recovered, Garcia said over ABS-CBN television.

The raid on a Cotabato apartment unit was launched a day after the visit to Manila of US President George W Bush and more than two weeks after the arrest in Cotabato of Indonesian Taufiq Rifqi, described by the Filipino authorities as the number-two man of JI.
Posted by Willie Galang at October 20, 2003 03:23 AM | TrackBack
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