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2020-08-30 Southeast Asia
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Suicide Bombers in Philippines Attack Monday Were Widows of Abu Sayyaf Militants: Army
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[BenarNews] The jacket wallahs who launched twin attacks this week in the southern Philippines were both widows of pro-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....
fighters, military officials said Wednesday as they released new details about the first joint terror act carried out in the country by wives of dead bad boys.
Monday’s bombings on Jolo Island, a hotbed of the 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, killed at least 15 people in addition to the two bombers and left more than 70 injured. It was the deadliest bad boy attack since the group aligned with Islamic State (IS) carried out a twin suicide kaboom at a local church last year.
Army chief Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana said one of Monday’s suicide kaboomers was identified as Nanah, the widow of Norman Lasuca, who was considered the country’s first suicide bomber. The other bomber was identified as Indah Nay, the widow of slain Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Talha Jumsah, who was also known as Abu Talha. Both the female bombers’ names were aliases, Sobejana said.
"Based on the information gathered from the ground there were two exploding trollop female suicide bombers — one was the wife of Lasuca the first Filipino suicide bomber, and the other was the wife of Abu Talha whom our troops neutralized last November in the encounter," Sobejana, who was visiting troops in the central Philippines, told BenarNews by phone.
Lasuca, 23, was one of two suicide bombers who detonated themselves in an attack in June in Jolo that maimed 22 people. Jumsah, or Talha, was killed in a clash with security forces in November 2019 in the southern Philippines.
He was said to be IS liaison for a group under Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, an Abu Sayyaf commander who is the local leader of the IS branch in the Philippines. The military had said earlier this week it was likely that Monday’s attacks were planned by Mundi Sawadjaan, a bomb maker (pictured below) who is believed to be a nephew of the commander.
Army officials on Wednesday shared more information about the latest suicide attack.
The first bomber detonated an improvised bomb strapped to her body near two military trucks parked in front of a restaurant, which was located across from a plaza and the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral. The church was the site of the January 2019 twin-kaboom that killed 23 people during Sunday Mass services.
Minutes later, the second woman bomber clad in a burqa detonated a bomb she had concealed on her body after she was prevented from entering an area that was already cordoned off by troops.
The whole of Sulu also continues be on military lockdown.
AN ABU SAYYAF COMMANDER ARRESTED
In ongoing security operations against the Abu Sayyaf Group, the police said a team of their officers and army intelligence operatives on Wednesday had arrested Jamiul Nassalon, 41, an Abu Sayyaf commander wanted for several kidnappings in southern Zamboanga Sibugay province. The team picked him up during a raid near Mabuhay, a town in the province.
"He [Nassalon] has been in hiding for years and [posed] as a seaweed farmer," said Zamboanga peninsula police director Brig. Gen. Jesus Cambay Jr., adding that Nassalon goes by several aliases, including Ustadz Amih and Abu Harris.
Cambay said that in addition to kidnapping, Nassalon was wanted for multiple attempted murders, and serious illegal detention with demands for ransom. For instance, it is believed he was involved in the 2009 abduction of a landowner on Basilan
...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts...
Island who was later beheaded when his family failed to meet a ransom demand. 
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