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| Two Suspected IS Members Arrested in Philippines |
| 2017-04-07 |
| [An Nahar] Philippine authorities said Thursday they had foiled a possible terror attack after arresting a Kuwaiti man and his Syrian wife, both alleged members of 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.... (IS) group. Police nabbed Husayn al-Dhafiri and Rahaf Zina at an upscale district of Manila following a tip-off from the Kuwaiti authorities late last month, but the arrests were kept secret while Filipino authorities investigated further, officials said. The pair had entered the country repeatedly in recent months as part of plans for "a bombing operation" either in the Philippines or Kuwait, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre told news hounds. Aguirre said al-Dhafiri was an active IS member in the Middle East and said the United States authorities believed he could "pose a threat to the national security of the Philippines." "He is alleged to have been involved in explosives manufacturing and possibly operational planning against Kuwait," Aguirre added. He said Zina and Al Dhafiri married after her husband, a high-ranking IS commander, was killed in Syria. The Filipino official said al-Dhafiri would be deported to Kuwait while Zina would be sent back to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... from where she entered the Philippines. "Both of them will be properly received by the security forces of those countries," he added. The Kuwaiti embassy in Manila could not be contacted for comment. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has previously warned that IS members might make their way into the Southeast Asian nation by infiltrating its Moslem communities, concentrated in the south of the largely Catholic country. |
| Posted by:Fred |