[An Nahar] A Philippine police van on Wednesday rammed and ran over baton-wielding protesters outside the U.S. embassy in Manila, with the driver of the vehicle saying he panicked because he feared being mobbed.
Hundreds of protesters had gathered at the embassy to voice support for President Rodrigo Duterte's recent tirades against the United States, the Philippines' longtime ally, and call for American troops to leave the country.
Television footage showed protesters hitting the vehicle with long sticks and breaking through a security cordon close to the embassy. Police also fired tear gas and used their batons to strike back at protesters.
At one stage the van reversed quickly into dozens of people then forward again, running over a man, who was able to stand up and stumble away.
"They were trying to take over the vehicle, trying to overturn it," the vehicle's driver, police officer Franklin Khu, told news hounds afterwards, according to ABS CBN television, which filmed the incident.
Asked if he panicked, Khu said: "Of course, our vehicle was overturning and if they seized control, they could run down other coppers."
Police chiefs said some of the protesters had sustained minor injuries, although rally organizers said 50 were hurt and five had been taken to hospital.
Photos showed a second man trapped underneath the van after it had stopped, with his leg and hips under one of the back tyres. He was later seen limping away.
Police insisted the protesters had instigated the violence.
"We had to disperse them. They started it. They were trying to enter the embassy," Chief Inspector Arsenio Riparip, one of the officers overseeing the incident, told AFP.
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Hat tip to Officer Khu and Chief Inspector Riparip.
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Video over at Funker530 - judge for yourself, if this is the same van as in the video. An additional even 15 seconds before hitting reverse would be nice for context.
In fact, lot of the video is out of context, but will give you an idea on the intensity.
[THESTANDARD.PH] INTELLIGENCE reports have confirmed the link of an tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! drug suspect in Quezon City to 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... Group, an official said Wednesday.
Sr. Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar of the Quezon City Police District said Juraid Sahiddun, who was arrested as a maintainer of a shabu den at the Culiat Salaam compound on Sept. 16, had been using different names to hide his criminal records in 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... He made his statement even as the military said 12 local and foreign hostages of the Abu Sayyaf Group were still waiting to be rescued in Sulu.
The military also said a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf was arrested in Talipao town on Tuesday. Sahiddun, or Sahibul Sailani or Juraid Sahibul, was involved in the mass abduction of 15 Golden Harvest Coconut Plantation workers in Tairan, Lantawan, Basilan in June 2001 at the height of the Dos Palmas kidnapping incident, Eleazar said.
He said he was also involved in the series of encounters and ambuscades against pursuing military forces and the planting of several land mines in a road network in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan, to blow up armored vehicles.
He said the suspect and other members of the Abu Sayyaf were put under surveillance after they took refuge with relatives and friends in Metro Manila.
Sahibul has a standing warrant of arrest for his involvement in the Tairan abduction in 2001.
He is facing drug charges before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.
On Sept. 16, authorities raided the Salaam compound that led to the arrest of 145 drug suspects including Sahiddun. Rio N. Araja and Florante S. Solmerin
[FRONTERANEWS] Abu Bakar Ba’asyir personifies the changing shape of terrorism in Southeast Asia.
The surviving co-founder of Indonesia’s local Jemaah Islamiyah jihadist movement, Ba’asyir has denied any personal ties with the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... . Yet he also openly voiced support for the dead Al Qaeda leader and his group has collaborated closely on training.
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[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine troops captured an Abu Sayyaf rebel during continuing operations against in the province of Sulu against the Daesh-linked terrorist group. Soldiers captured Pauji Asgari in Talipao town on Tuesday after villagers tipped off troops about the presence of Abu Sayyaf militants.
Brigadier General Arnel dela Vega, the commander of Joint Task Force Sulu, said Abu Sayyaf rebels have been trying to blend into civilian communities to avoid detection and capture. He said Asgari was handed over to the police on Wednesday after being interrogated at a military base in the capital town of Jolo.
On Monday, the military killed a captured Abu Sayyaf member Ustab Anji after he grabbed a weapon from one of his guards in the village of Magsagaw in Panglima Sugala town in Tawi-Tawi province. Soldiers were on their way to the police headquarters to hand over Anji when he grabbed the firearm. Anji was involved in the kidnappings this year of Indonesian and Malaysian sailors in Sabah, Malaysia. He was among those who kidnapped 21 mostly European holidaymakers also in Sabah, Malaysia in 2000 and had a P350,000 bounty on his head.
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[FRONTERANEWS] Abu Bakar Ba’asyir personifies the changing shape of terrorism in Southeast Asia.
[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine troops captured an Abu Sayyaf rebel during continuing operations against in the province of Sulu against the Daesh-linked terrorist group. Soldiers captured Pauji Asgari in Talipao town on Tuesday after villagers tipped off troops about the presence of Abu Sayyaf militants.
