Al-Ghozi was arrested in the Philippines on 15 January 2002 , three hours before he was to board a plane from Manila to Bangkok for an arranged meeting with Riduan Isamuddin and other al-Qaeda and JI operatives . He pleaded guilty to charges of possession of illegal explosives in April 2002 , and was sentenced to 17 years in jail . While in custody , he gave information that led investigators to a cache of more than a ton of explosives , 300 detonators and other bomb-making materials in the Southern Philippines . These items were recovered from a house rented by al-Ghozi in General Santos City in Mindanao . Al-Ghozi confessed that he had provided the explosives used in the Rizal Day bombings , and had been planning to use the remaining explosives for the embassies attacks in Singapore
Rizal Day bombings
Rizal Day bombings
Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi