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