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Al-Ghozi used two RP passports

| Source: REUTERS

Al-Ghozi used two RP passports

PHILIPPINES: Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, an Indonesian bombmaker who fled from a Manila jail in July, used two Philippine passports to leave and enter the country before his original capture last year, the government said on Thursday.

The bureau of immigration said it had put the passports on a watchlist for officers at airports and seaports after it was informed by the department of foreign affairs that the two documents had been revoked.

An immigration official, who declined to be identified, said there had been no attempts to use the passports since al-Ghozi escaped from a cell at the heavily guarded national police headquarters on July 14.

Al-Ghozi was arrested by Philippine police in January 2002 and jailed later that year for possessing explosives and falsifying documents. --Reuters

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