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Southeast Asia
Deadly Philippine bombing exposes weakness in intel gathering as Mindanao State U bombers named
2023-12-10
[BenarNews] A deadly bombing of a Catholic Mass in southern Marawi city this week has exposed the Philippine military’s weakness in intelligence gathering, officials said Thursday, after identifying two Filipinos as main suspects in the attack claimed by Islamic State
The national police identified two krazed killers, bomb expert Kadapi Mimbesa (also known as Engineer) and Arsani Membisa (also known as Katab) as the bombers, known operatives of Daulah Islamiyah, the local ISIS group.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 Death Eaters. The bombing that killed four people who were attending the worship service on Sunday inside a gym at Mindanao State University was apparently meant as a response to the military’s sustained offensives against pro-Islamic State (IS) Death Eaters and allied groups, officials said.

"We don’t have enough capability to know everything that’s going around us," Armed Forces of the Philippines front man Col. Medel Agular said in a telephone interview with news hounds on Thursday.
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