Editing 2002 Zamboanga City bombings (section)

===October 2===
A bomb blast in front of a Malagutay district<ref name = "newsflash2002" /> karaoke bar near a military arms depot<ref name = "gmaabusayyaf">{{cite news
 | title      = Abu Sayyaf kidnappings, bombings and other attacks
 | url        = http://www.gmanews.tv/story/154797/abu-sayyaf-kidnappings-bombings-and-other-attacks
 | work       = GMA News
 | date       = August 23, 2007
 | access-date = March 22, 2010}}</ref> in Zamboanga City killed an American [[Special Forces (United States Army)|Green Beret]] [[commando]] and three Filipino [[civilians]].<ref name = "newsflash2002" /><ref name = "philstar2002" /> At least 25 other people, one of them another American trooper, were wounded in the blast.<ref name = "newsflashabus">{{cite news
 | title       = ABUS, AL-QAEDA TAGGED IN WEDNESDAY NIGHT ZAMBOANGA BOMBING
 | url       = http://www.newsflash.org/2002/09/hl/hl016645.htm
 | work       = newsflash
 | date       = October 4, 2002
 | access-date       = March 22, 2010
 | archive-date       = November 13, 2002
 | archive-url       = https://web.archive.org/web/20021113152915/http://www.newsflash.org/2002/09/hl/hl016645.htm
 | url-status       = dead
 }}</ref> Investigators were looking at the possibility of a suicide attack as the rider of a motorcycle where the explosives were rigged was among the fatalities.<ref name = "newsflashabus" />  A military intelligence report said the attack was staged by a "four-man urban terrorist group" of [[Abu Sayyaf]], which has been linked to [[al-Qaeda]]. [[Philippine National Police]] chief Director General Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. stated the motorcycle driver had been identified as a member of [[Abu Sayyaf]] from a sketch based on witnesses' accounts and the body.<ref name = "newsflashabus" /> According to police, the bomb that exploded in [[Malagutay]] weighed around a kilo and contained "brownish" explosive that may have been a mixture of [[gunpowder]] and [[Trinitrotoluene|TNT]].<ref name ="newsflash2002" />