RP holds Jordanian, probes bomb link

RP holds Jordanian, probes bomb link

PHILIPPINES: Investigators probing a bomb blast that killed a U.S. soldier and three other people in the Philippines want to question a Jordanian detained for immigration irregularities, officials said on Tuesday.

Military chief Gen. Benjamin Defensor told reporters that authorities were looking at whether the 36-year-old man was involved in last week's bomb attack in the southern city of Zamboanga.

The immigration statement identified the man as Mohammad Amin S. Al-Ghaffari.

Earlier, Philippine military intelligence sources said they believed the detained man was a Palestinian and a member of the Islamic radical group Hamas.

U.S. army Sergeant Mark Wayne Jackson and two Filipinos were killed and 23 people wounded in the attack in a market outside a military camp near Zamboanga. --Reuters