The kind of network described there could apply as well to regional menaces such as Jemaah Islamiah.
He has prevaricated about officially banning Jemaah Islamiah, which would make it easier to prosecute its members.
Friday's bombs contained nails, ball bearings and bolts, identical to ones used by Jemaah Islamiah, police said.
They were also waiting to question Abu Bakar Basyir, leader of a Muslim militant group, Jemaah Islamiah.
Many consider the militants terrorists, and have hinted at connections with outfits like al-Qaeda or Jemaah Islamiah.
Further atrocities seem inevitable, however, because Jemaah Islamiah's alleged bomb-makers, Azahari Husin and Noordin Muhammad Top, remain at large.
Filipino officials say the latter resembled a series of attacks in 2000, blamed by jailed terrorists on Jemaah Islamiah.
Jemaah Islamiah's chief bomb-makers remain at large, and there seems to be no shortage of volunteers to disseminate their handiwork.
On May 28th, Cambodian authorities charged an Egyptian and two Thais with plotting terrorist attacks in Phnom Penh for Jemaah Islamiah.
At any rate, Jemaah Islamiah, the group thought to be responsible for most of Indonesia's recent bombings, is becoming less effective.
In the Philippines police arrested five men said to be members of Abu Sayyaf, a group believed to be linked to Jemaah Islamiah.
Neither are the militant Muslim extremists affiliated to Jemaah Islamiah in Indonesia, who became a threat after the shift from dictatorship to democracy.
After a slow start, the authorities are now doggedly pursuing the remaining members of Jemaah Islamiah, even if they do not call them that.
Noordin was said to be a key financier for the Jemaah Islamiah militant group but is now thought to have set up his own splinter group.
Officials said the detainees belonged to the Abu Sayyaf, a group of armed Filipino Muslims, who had trained with Jemaah Islamiah, the South-East Asian Islamic militant movement.
The bombings were blamed on the militant group Jemaah Islamiah, widely regarded as a regional affiliate of the al-Qaeda network, but several key suspects have never been caught.
Jemaah Islamiah has links to al-Qaeda and has a long track record of bomb attacks in Indonesia including the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed more than 200 people.
Malaysian Azahari Husin, alleged to be Jemaah Islamiah's top bomb-making expert and to have helped assemble the Bali bombs, was killed by police in eastern Indonesian in November 2005.
But the Philippines poses less of a threat to global security now than it did in the 1990s, when al-Qaeda plotted suicide plane attacks here and the MILF invited Jemaah Islamiah, a regional network, to train the bombers who went on to attack Bali in 2002.
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