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Female "suicide bomber" in Sulu blast was from Abu Sayyaf – military @ 2019-09-09T20: Back Hot News
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LIEUTENANT GENERAL CIRILITO SOBEJANA, CHIEF OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMED FORCES' WESTERN MINDANAO COMMAND, ALSO REVEALS THAT THEY ARE MONITORING TWO MORE SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBERS.
ZAMBOANGA CITY, PHILIPPINES — A FOREIGN-LOOKING FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER WAS KILLED AFTER EXPLODING A BOMB WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ATTACK A MILITARY DETACHMENT IN INDANAN, SULU YESTERDAY.
REPORTS SAID THAT THE BOMBING ON SUNDAY WAS THE FOURTH INVOLVING SUICIDE ATTACKERS. A TOTAL OF SIX BOMBERS HAVE CARRIED OUT ATTACKS IN THE FOUR CASES, WHICH INCLUDED THE TWO EXPLOSIONS AT THE OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CATHEDRAL IN JOLO, SULU LAST JANUARY, WHICH LEFT OVER 20 DEAD AND AT LEAST 100 WOUNDED./TS
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MINDANEWS/09 SEPTEMBER) – THE LOCAL POLICE HAS BEEN PLACED ON ALERT AGAINST POSSIBLE TERROR ATTACKS FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSIONS IN NEARBY ISULAN TOWN IN SULTAN KUDARAT AND IN INDANAN, SULU OVER THE WEEKEND.
ISIS ALSO CLAIMED A SUICIDE ATTACK ON AN ARMY CHECKPOINT BY A MOROCCAN MILITANT, ABU KATHEER AL MAGHRIBI, IN LAMITAN CITY IN THE NEIGHBORING MUSLIM PROVINCE OF BASILAN IN AUGUST 2018. AT LEAST 11 SOLDIERS AND PRO-GOVERNMENT MILITIAS WERE KILLED IN THE ATTACK.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — PHILIPPINE MILITARY OFFICIALS SAY A FOREIGN-LOOKING MILITANT HAS BEEN KILLED IN A SUICIDE BOMBING ATTACK ON A MILITARY DETACHMENT IN THE COUNTRY’S SOUTH.
IT WAS IN 2018 WHEN SUICIDE BOMBERS KILLED AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE IN BASILAN, A PORTENT OF THE 2019 SUICIDE BOMBINGS IN JOLO CATHEDRAL AND INDANAN, SULU, THE LATTER INCLUDING THE FIRST REPORTED FILIPINO SUICIDE BOMBER.
AFTER HIS DEATH, THE MILITARY AND SECURITY EXPERTS SAID THAT A LITTLE-KNOWN ABU SAYYAF LEADER, HATIB HAJAN SAWADJAAN, HAD EMERGED AS THE NEW CHIEF OF IS IN THE PHILIPPINES. IN 2019 SO FAR, AUTHORITIES HAVE BLAMED HIM FOR ORDERING OUT A SERIES OF DEADLY BOMBINGS ON JOLO ISLAND, WHICH IS PART OF SULU PROVINCE. THESE ATTACKS INCLUDED A TWIN BOMBING THAT KILLED 23 PEOPLE AT A CHURCH IN LATER JANUARY.
ACTING ON THAT TIP, THE BUREAU ISSUED ADVISORIES TO AIRPORT OFFICIALS FLAGGING MS STO DOMINGO AND MR SAMHOON AS "SUICIDE BOMBERS", AND MS PALLIYAGURUGE AS THEIR "FINANCIER". THE ADVISORIES STATED THAT MS STO DOMINGO ARRIVED IN THE PHILIPPINES IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR.
SOON RELEASED. SINCE 2017, MALAYSIAN POLICE HAVE ARRESTED 39 MEMBERS OF THE ABU SAYYAF (ASG), A JIHADIST GROUP, INCLUDING TWO IN 2019. ADDITIONALLY, SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TERRORIST CELLS ARRESTED IN MALAYSIA HAVE BEEN IN SABAH, A KEY TRANSIT ROUTE FOR FOREIGN FIGHTERS ENTERING AND LEAVING THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES, INCLUDING AT LEAST THREE OF FIVE SUICIDE BOMBERS SINCE JULY 2018. ALL OF THIS POINTS TO THE FACT THAT SABAH IS NOT ONLY THE CRUX OF MALAYSIA SECURITY, BUT REGIONAL SECURITY AS WELL.
MOST OF THESE FOREIGN JIHADISTS ARE OPERATING ALONGSIDE LOCAL BANDIT GROUPS LIKE THE ABU SAYYAF IN SULU AND SEVERAL FACTIONS OF THE BANGSAMORO ISLAMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN CENTRAL MINDANAO, LANAO PROVINCES AND MAINLAND ZAMBOANGA PENINSULA. – WITH JAIME LAUDE, EMMANUEL TUPAS, JOSE RODEL CLAPANO
THE TERROR ALERT CAME NEARLY 7 MONTHS SINCE THE SUICIDE ATTACK AT THE JOLO CATHEDRAL ON JAN. 27. THE TWIN BLASTS, CARRIED OUT BY INDONESIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS WITH THE AID OF THE ABU SAYYAF GROUP, LEFT 22 PEOPLE DEAD, INCLUDING STATE TROOPS, AND MORE THAN A HUNDRED HURT.
IN JANUARY, 23 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND DOZENS OF OTHERS WERE INJUREDIN A TWIN SUICIDE BOMBING INSIDE A CATHOLIC CHURCH IN JOLO, THE CAPITALOF SOUTHERN SULU PROVINCE. OFFICIALS IN INDONESIA RECENTLY CONFIRMEDTHAT THE ATTACKS WERE CARRIED OUT BY AN INDONESIAN COUPLE WORKING WITHIS FILIPINO MILITANTS.
THIS MEANS THAT THE PHILIPPINES WILL NOT SEE THE LAST OF ISIS-TRAINED “HOMEGROWN” SUICIDE BOMBERS SUCH AS THE ONES THAT ATTACKED A MILITARY CAMP IN SULU IN JUNE, WHICH PROMPTED LOCAL DEFENSE OFFICIALS AND MILITARY ANALYSTS TO SAY IT “RAISED THE LEVEL OF EXTREMISM” IN THE COUNTRY.

 

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