- Philippine National Police (PNP) operatives apprehended
an Israeli suspected to be a member of the al-Qaeda terror network in in
Baguio City on June 7.
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- Arrested was Mera Doutvsky.
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- Reports reaching the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame,
Quezon City, disclosed that Mera was nabbed at about 2 p.m., by joint elements
of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit and the Bureau of Immigration
at the vicinity of the Department of Social Welfare Development in Baguio
City.
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- Authorities also said that Doutvsky was also found to
be an undocumented and overstaying alien.
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- Police said the information they received from the Bureau
of Immigration revealed that Doutvsky is asuspected member of the al-Qaeda
terrorist cell, an information still unconfirmed by other intelligence
agencies.
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- Doutvsky was turned over to the office of Alipio Fernandez
Jr., BI commissioner, in Manila for proper disposition.
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- Last week, authorities reportedly prevented a possible
terror attack coinciding with the 106th celebration of Independence Day.
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- Explosive materials plenty enough to sink a passenger
shipwere seized by authorities from arrested terrorist suspect Alejandro
Aguirre.
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- The explosives were seized before these could be shipped
to Zamboanga City.
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- The arrest came following an announcement by the Australian
government that terrorists have entered Indonesia from the Philippines
in recent weeks to plan a new strategy on assassinating diplomats in lieu
of bombing western targets.
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- The suspect was held on Thursday at Pier 18, North Harbor,
Manila allegedly trying to ship seven boxes of explosives, including blasting
caps and rolls of detonating cord and fuses.
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