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Daesh claims suicide attack in southern Philippines
[AA.TR] ISIS terror group claimed a suicide car kaboom that killed 11 people in the island southern province 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... Tuesday, according to the military. According to initial reports, a van was intercepted at an army checkpoint manned by government faceless myrmidons in Bulanting village in Lamitan City. "A driver of a 10-seater van who looked like a foreigner and could not speak the local dialect was intercepted at Bulanting checkpoint," Lamitan City Mayor Roderick Furigay said as quoted by Inquirer News. Furigay said the driver was held by government faceless myrmidons for further questioning while other members sought military backup when the vehicle suddenly went kaboom!. Aside from the suspected bomber, five government militiamen, a military detachment commander, three women and a child were also killed. Five scout rangers, including a young lieutenant, were also left critically maimed. An investigation of the incident remains underway; the military suspects that while ISIS usually claims such attacks, this particular one was carried out by the ISIS-linked 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... group. Basilan province is known as one of the strongholds of the holy warrior group, which since 1991 has carried out bombings, kidnappings, liquidations and extortion in a self-determined fight for an independent Islamic province in the Philippines. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front expressed confidence early this week that the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law will soon end the decades-long Moslem insurgency in the country’s south. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-02 |
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