MANILA (Reuters) - The capture of a leader of a radical group of Muslim converts may have averted a wave of bombs in Manila over the Christmas holidays, Philippine intelligence officials said on Tuesday.
Pio de Vera, the alleged number two of the Rajah Solaiman Movement which has ties to Philippine rebel group Abu Sayyaf, was caught last week at a house in Zamboanga, one of the largest cities on the southern island of Mindanao, they said.
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