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October 7, 2006
Indonesia: Extradition Requests From Filipinos For Islamist Bomber
News from Associated Press via the Jakarta Post, ABS-CBN and Reuters via Yahoo reports that a man recently arrested in Indonesia on Monday 25 September appears to be a Filipino terrorist, Elmer Abram alias Elmer Emran, a native of General Santos City.
Elmer Abram is wanted for his alleged role in several bombings which took place on the large southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines, which took place last year. Abram was arrested in the mainly Christian area of Manado in North Sulawesi. He is said by Filipino security officials to be a member of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.
German Doria, head of police for central Mindanao, said: "We're awaiting further word from the Indonesian police on how and when the suspect would be sent back to stand trial in the Philippines."
The bombing with which Abram is connected took place in a shopping center in General Santos city on February 14 last year. This had killed three people and injured 40.
Other bombings took place on the same day, in Makati City (Manila) and Davao, called the Valentine's Day bombing. Eight people were killed and more than 150 others in these attacks, which were carried out by an alliance of Islamists including members of Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Sayyaf and Rajah Solaiman a group of Christian converts to Islam.
We reported on October 28 last year that three people were sentenced to death for their part in the Valentine's Day bombing. One was a JI member, another from Abu Sayyaf and the other was from Rajah Solaimon. They had caused a bomb on a bus in Manila's financial district, which had killed four and injured 60.
In Indonesia, North SUlawesi police spokesperson Benny Bela confirmed that Elmer Abram had been arrested by an anti-terror unit shortly before his plane landed in Sam Ratulangi airport in Manado. He said: "That was a secret operation, I cannot give you more details on that."
General Hermogenes Esperon, the Philippine's military chief of staff, said that up to 40 members of Jemaah Islamiyah have been fugitives in the southern Philippines since 2003. They fled there following Jemaah Islamiyah's bombing on Bali in October 2002, killing 202 people, most of whom were tourists, including 88 Australians and 25 Britons.
We wrote yesterday that the wife of Dulmatin, one of these JI fugitives, had been captured in the Philippines, on the island of Jolo.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 7, 2006 9:19 PM
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