In a week that where the death Osama Bin Laden, a mile from Pakistan’s military academy, the world’s most wanted terrorist which raised security concerns over how a top terrorist could have been in a Pakistani military township. In the Philippines, a terrorist was guarding a building where Ameircan, European, and Asian diplomats lived many with their families in a posh heavily-guarded secure condominum.

Another, albeit much lower ranking foot soldier of Al Qaeda, “suspect, Arabani Jakiran, was arrested Thursday at the Pacific Plaza Tower in an upscale part of metropolitian Manila,” a report used by the Fox News channel reported.

‘The Fort district’, Pacific Plaza towers  building, is walking distance from the American cemetary, in Philippine capitol city of Metro Manila – home to the headquarters of the Philippine Army, Navy, and Marines. Authorities are being asked by diplomats and members of the business community how a wanted terrorist could have become an armed uniformed guard at all. Let alone in such a sensitive location. Embassy security personel have moved members of their diplomatic staffs out the building from at least five countries.

A senior diplomatic source also noted that as a guard, he may have access to the building car park, roof deck, mail, and telephone system.

LOCAL NEWS REPORTS:

Alleged Abu Sayyaf working as security guard nabbed ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines – Elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) intelligence operatives arrested on Thursday morning an Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) member wanted for involvement in ..

Suspected Abu Sayyaf member falls in Taguig GMANews.TV -Philippine security forces have arrested a suspected Abu Sayyaf member facing a string of criminal cases in southern Philippines but who is now working as a security guard of a posh condominium in Taguig City. A statement released by the Philippine …

Abu Sayyaf member nabbed in Manila Philippine Star - MANILA (Xinhua) – Philippine troops arrested a member of the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group who is now working as a security guard at a hotel in the country’s capital, police said Friday. Chief Supt. Samuel Pagdilao, chief of the Philippine National …

Officials are investigating and promise a full nivestigation into the incident, which comes as hundred Filipino Muslims staged a protest at the US Embassy in Manila.

The arrest of Arabani Jakiran, a member of the notorious Al Qeada-backed Abu SaYaf group, opens new worries in the Philippine capitol after authorities learned where he worked. As a doorman-securty guard with access to mail, telephone lines, and units of dozens of the American diplomats and securiy officials.

Manila American Cemetery is located in the Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley.

The area is a brand new modern city built out of a former Philippine Army camp and military headquarters of Fort Bonifacio and a short distance away from the US Ambassador’s residence.

The Fort is a expansion area for the country’s financial capitol of Makati.

Ironically, Arabani Jakiranm came to work everyday across from a memorial to American war dead from the Second World War and a US government property of the former Fort.

The Manila Battlement monument is a U.S.  government-owned consular property that is open to the public, left in the former U.S.  Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands.

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