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Philippine Militants Behead Seven Loggers
[An Nahar] Islamist faceless myrmidons in the Philippines have beheaded seven local loggers they kidnapped last week in their stronghold in the strife-torn south, police said Monday.The bodies of the loggers were found on Sunday in a mountainous village on the island of Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... , local police chief John Cundo told AFP, blaming the killings on a faction of the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... kidnap-for-ransom group based there. The group of senior Abu Sayyaf leader Furuji Indama kidnapped and killed the loggers apparently over a local business row rather than for its typical ransom activities, Cundo said. "This was an act of Dire Revenge by Indama who may have blamed the destruction of his rubber plantation on these loggers. The kidnappers did not demand ransom but immediately beheaded the loggers," Cundo said. The Abu Sayyaf is a loose network of faceless myrmidons formed in the 1990s with seed money from the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... 's al-Qaeda network. One faction based on Basilan has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, with members among faceless myrmidons who have been occupying parts of Marawi, the largely Catholic nation's most important Islamic city, since May. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-01 |
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