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| Plans for a second Zamboanga City seige confirmed | |
| 2014-08-21 | |
| Eleven months after the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) September 2013 bloody siege in Zamboanga City, the police confirmed another attack is looming even as half of about 120,000 evacuated residents have yet to return to their homes. Police chief Angelito Casimiro said "these threats include possible bombings of gasoline stations, restaurants and other highly vulnerable areas as well as kidnappings of some prominent residents and businessmen," but asasured the city that security measures have been put in place. He said Abu Sayyaf member Abbo Jomar was arrested in Barangay Upper Calarian with components for an improvised explosive device about to be assembled. Jomar's group is allegedly working with cells in Sulu and Basilan with members deployed in several towns in North Cotabato. Casimiro said another siege is meant to derail the peace process that the Philippine government is undertaking with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). He said, "There are some sectors that are not satisfied with the ways this process is being done while others disagree with the government's effort of reaching for peace in the entire Mindanao, the country's second largest island region." Meanwhile, he dismissed rumors about an alleged massing up of armed men in coastal villages of the city's eastern area as part of the second MNLF assault. He said, "I call on all residents not to fall prey on this kind of messages because your police and military men of Task Force Zamboanga (TFZ) are always on the guard."
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| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 MNLF, Abu Sayyaf, and MILF all trying to pretend they are separate groups? MILF signs a peace treaty but MNLF and Abu Sayyaf keep fighting. Oh, says MILF, we can't control them. Riiiiiiiiggggghhhhht. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-08-21 15:51 |
| #1 See also GLOBALNATION.PH > AFP: NO FILIPINOS [known to be] FIGHTING [or Training] WID ISIS. In seemingly offcial contrance to ex-PHIL President Fidel Ramos claim yesterday that up to 100 Filipinos are fighting or training wid the ISIS. * MANILA TIMES > "NOYNOYING" ABOUT ISIS CALIPHATE IN MINDANAO? ARTIC SENDS MIXED SIGNAL, as IIUC its Author appears to doubt the credibility of PHIL Media reports but does NOT doubt the Claims or Reports from Malaysia + Indonesia about Islamists desiring to set up Caliphate in SE Asia??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-21 00:15 |