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2020-08-25 Southeast Asia
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Bombs Kill at Least a Dozen People, Wound Scores in Philippines
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[BenarNews] Two powerful kabooms believed to be set off by Islamic State
...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....
-linked holy warriors, including one detonated by ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber, killed at least 14 people and maimed scores more — many of them civilians — on Jolo Island in the southern Philippines on Monday, authorities said.
The bombings in Jolo, a hotbed of the pro-IS Abu Sayyaf
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...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, were the deadliest to strike the capital of Sulu province since a double-suicide kaboom left at least 23 people dead at a local church in January last year.
Monday’s blasts killed six civilians, seven soldiers and a police commando, while 75 other people — including at least 48 civilians, 21 soldiers and six coppers — were maimed, according to the latest update figures from the military’s Western Mindanao Command.
"We together with our counterparts are still determining the details of the earth-shattering kaboom through a post-blast investigation," said Maj. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, the front man for the military.
"At the moment, our troops on the ground are evacuating and providing treatment for the casualties while securing the area," he said.
The first improvised bomb was rigged to a parked cycle of violence, which went kaboom! in front of the Paradise Food Plaza in a village called Walled City at 11:53 a.m., according to a military report. The first blast took place along Serrantes Street, close to a military truck, officials said.
Moments later, a second blast went off meters away, on the other side of the street. A woman suicide bomber is believed to have carried out the second bombing. After the first bomb rigged to the cycle of violence went off, a woman tried to get close to the commotion, said Lt. Col. Ronaldo Mateo, front man for the Philippine Army’s 11th Infantry Division.
"A exploding trollop female suicide bomber detonated herself as a soldier stopped her from entering the cordoned off area," Mateo said, adding that the identity and nationality of the alleged suicide bomber was still being determined.
The attacks were most likely the work of Mundi Sawadjaan, a suspected Abu Sayyaf bomb-maker who was the target of a manhunt by the military in recent weeks, according to Mateo.
The Army’s 11th Infantry Division as well as the Joint Task Force Sulu has since placed Jolo under lockdown, the military said.
"We advise the public to stay calm but be vigilant to monitor and report any suspicious persons or items or unusual activities in the area," Arevalo said.
Mundi Sawadjaan is believed to be a nephew of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the leader of the Philippine branch of the Islamic State (IS) terror group, who took over that role after Isnilon Hapilon was killed during fighting with government forces at the end of a five-month siege by gunnies in southern Marawi city in 2017.
Philippine authorities blamed Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan for orchestrating a twin suicide kaboom by an Indonesian couple that killed nearly two dozen people at a church in Jolo in January 2019.
In June 2020, the military said that four members of an intelligence unit were on the trail of Abu Sayyaf suicide bombers in the area, when they were killed in an apparent misencounter with the police. Early this month, five suspected associates of Mundi Sawadjaan were caught allegedly plotting attacks in Jolo, but the criminal mastermind bomber eluded arrest.
Maj. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, the regional military commander, said Monday’s attack was planned and carried out to take advantage of the military being distracted as it helped the government in efforts to contain the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.
"He is the only one capable of executing such attacks," Vinluan said of Mundi Sawadjaan. 
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