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2021-01-30 Southeast Asia
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Roadside Bombs Kill At Least 3 People in Southern Philippines
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[BenarNews] At least three people died and scores were maimed in a pair of roadside kaboomings carried out 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....
-allied Filipino holy warriors in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, officials said, in the volatile region’s latest bloodshed.
The attacks in North Cotabato and Maguindanao provinces occurred despite a strengthened military presence since mid-2020, when President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law giving government security forces sweeping powers to tackle terrorism.
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No groups grabbed credit for the attacks, but members of the Islamic State (IS)-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF) are the key suspects, according to local officials.
Pip Limbungan, mayor of Tulunan town in North Cotabato province, said a homemade bomb went kaboom! shortly after noon at an abandoned ticket booth in the village of Sibsib as a bus was about to unload passengers.
"We condemn the attack. The explosive was hidden at the abandoned ticket booth," Limbungan said.
Two people died as a result of the blast, including a 3-year-old female fruit vendor who was close to the scene, and a bus passenger who suffered a heart attack, the mayor said.
Five other bystanders were rushed to the hospital after being maimed by shrapnel. They were said to be out of danger as of Wednesday afternoon.
Provincial Gov. Nancy Catamco, called the bombing an "insult not only to the law but to human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty ...
"This incident is a blow to the security and peace of our province. But like all the trials we’ve been through, let’s rise together," she said.
Hours earlier, a man was killed when an improvised bomb went kaboom! as he passed a road in South Upi, a town in neighboring Maguindanao province.
Reynalbert Insular, the mayor of South Upi, said the victim was driving his cycle of violence in the village of Poblacion Romonggaob at the break of dawn when a bomb went kaboom! . The man’s unidentified companion was maimed.
A FRAGILE PEACE
The BIFF Death Eater group is a breakaway faction of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country’s former largest separatist force that ceased to be a security threat after signing a peace deal with Manila.
MILF today controls an expanded Moslem autonomous region in the south. Murad Ebrahim, the group’s leader who serves as interim head of the autonomous region, has said that IS-linked holy warriors who had opposed the peace deal still posed a threat to peace.
In the last three years, the greater Mindanao region has been the target of kabooms by IS-linked Death Eaters.
Last August, twojacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers killed 15 people and maimed 70 others on Jolo Island in southern Sulu province, a hotbed of the Abu Sayyaf
...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. It was the deadliest Death Eater attack since the group, which is also aligned with IS, carried out a twin suicide kaboom at a local church in January 2019.
Duterte last year signed a new law, which repeals the Human Security Act of 2007, in an attempt to prevent terror attacks in the south where IS holy warriors from Southeast Asia and the Middle East had taken over the city of Marawi for five months in 2017. The law, which human rights groups have criticized, empowers government forces to conduct warrantless arrests and hold suspects for nearly a month even without charges.
NEW MILITARY CHIEF
Also on Wednesday, President Rodrigo Duterte named Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, a battle-hardened soldier and army chief, to be the next overall head of the country’s armed forces.
Do we know him? What do we think? Sobejana, who as a young soldier had seen action against holy warriors in Jolo where he was maimed, will replace Gen. Gilbert Gapay, who is set to retire on Feb. 4.
"The Palace confirms that Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana will be the next Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines," presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement.
Sobejana led the military’s offensive against Abu Sayyaf group in Sulu before he was appointed in his current post as army chief. 
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