[AlAhram] Indonesian police locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a third 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -linked murderous Moslem Sunday accused of plotting to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, as anger grows at a violent military crackdown on Rohingya Moslems.
The snuffies -- all from a domestic cell affiliated with the Syria-based snuffies group -- had amassed enough explosives to create bombs more powerful than those used in the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, police say.
"They were helping plan a kaboom against parliament, the national police headquarters, the embassy of Myanmar and several television stations," national police front man Rikwanto said in a text message.
Anger is growing in Indonesia and other parts of Moslem world over what has been described as the "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
Refugees fleeing into Bangladesh say Myanmar's military has been leading a campaign of rape and murder against the homeless ethnic group.
Thousands of Moslems rallied in capitals across Asia on Friday demanding an end to the violence.
In Indonesia, the world's largest Moslem-majority country, protesters urged their government to cut diplomatic ties with Yangon.
Indonesia's anti-terror unit Wednesday nabbed suspected bomb maker Rio Priatna Wibowo and seized a significant quantity of high-grade explosives from a laboratory west of the capital Jakarta.
His arrest led to the capture of two other suspected snuffies in different parts of the country, Rikwanto said Sunday.
Bahrain Agam was detained Saturday for allegedly purchasing the explosives while Saiful Bahri was arrested Sunday accused of helping assemble the bombs, said Rikwanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.
Indonesian police say it remains unclear when exactly the snuffies planned to carry out their assault, but that they had enough explosives to detonate a blast more than double that which levelled nightclubs in Bali in a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... inferno.
All three were members of Jemaah Ansar Daulah, a local bad boy outfit that has sworn allegiance to IS, Rikwanto said.
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[Inquirer] The Philippine military yesterday said 11 members of the Islamic extremist Maute Group had been killed and five others injured during military operations in Butig, Lanao del Sur province, that began on Saturday.
The army launched the offensive two days after 200-300 members of the group stormed the town center, occupied the old, abandoned municipal hall and even raised the Daesh flag there.
"This prompted the immediate conduct of military operations focused on dislodging the lawless group. Two soldiers were slightly wounded while 11 members of the Maute Group were killed and at least five wounded," military spokesman Edgard Arevalo said in a statement.
Arevalo advised residents remaining near the building to leave their homes as the military expected the clashes to last for a week.
The military deployed planes to strike at structures near the town hall, such as the public high school and the mosque that were also being occupied by the Maute fighters. Arevalo said, "The group has … long been professing allegiance to the foreign terror group. This is still part of [its] agenda in courting support and encouraging similar-minded individuals to support ISIS."
The old town hall used to be the group's stronghold until it was recaptured by the military in February. The group's final stronghold, Camp Darul Iman, a former Moro Islamic Liberation Front military camp in Butig, fell to the military in June.
Security forces believe that militants from the Maute group were responsible for a bomb attack in the Davao City night market that killed 15 people in September partly in revenge for the June defeat.
The Maute Group, composed of former MILF militants, is being led by brothers Omar and Abdullah Maute, who have pledged allegiance to Daesh and want to set up an similar Islamic state in Mindanao.
On Saturday night, President Duterte raised the possibility of negotiating with the Abu Sayyaf and the Maute Group. Duterte said, "ISIS is really dangerous. That is why you have to use your head. Do not drive them to despair because that is precisely what happened in Africa."
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[Bangkok Post] Two armed men opened fire at two Buddhist women in a drive-by gun attack, killing one, who was 8-months pregnant, and injuring the other in Pattani province on Saturday night. The incident occurred near a gas station in Panare district.
As the pregnant woman, Rattakal Jawang, and Saijai Thongdee were heading home aboard a motorcycle, two armed men followed them on another motorcycle and opened fire. Ms Rattakal died from her injuries at the hospital. Doctors then removed her 8-month-old unborn child, but found the baby would not breathe.
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[Inquirer] The Philippine military yesterday said 11 members of the Islamic extremist Maute Group had been killed and five others injured during military operations in Butig, Lanao del Sur province, that began on Saturday.
[Bangkok Post] Two armed men opened fire at two Buddhist women in a drive-by gun attack, killing one, who was 8-months pregnant, and injuring the other in Pattani province on Saturday night. The incident occurred near a gas station in Panare district.
