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2021-09-01 Southeast Asia
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Blast from Improvised Bomb Injures 2 Soldiers in Southern Philippines
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[BenarNews] The Philippine army was hunting for three suspected bully boyz after they detonated an improvised bomb that injured two soldiers at a checkpoint on southern 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 on Tuesday, the military said.
A brief exchange of gunfire followed the early-morning blast at a roadside checkpoint set up by the 68th Infantry Battalion on the outskirts of Lamitan town, military officials said.
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"The IED was planted by the men at the checkpoint. It resulted in the wounding of our two soldiers," Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, commander of the local army brigade and the Joint Task Force Basilan, told BenarNews.
The attack took place in the same area where a suspected Moroccan suicide-bomber killed 11 people in a car-kaboom in July 2018. Philippine authorities blamed 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...
, a bad boy group linked with 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....
holy warriors, as being behind the 2018 attack.
Gobway identified the maimed servicemen as Corp. Cyrus Bunda and Pvt. Arny Vember.
"The maimed in action were stabilized and evacuated to the nearest hospital," he said, adding that they were already out of danger.
Police and military Sherlocks disclosed that three suspects on cycle of violences were monitored near the site of the incident.
Two of them alighted and opened fire as the bomb went kaboom! . They took Bunda’s rifle as they fled from the scene, local police investigator Maj. Nurhaib Bungkac said.
The identity of the attackers remains unknown at the moment, Gobway said, noting that the troops had already pushed Abu Sayyaf bully boyz deep into the jungles of Basilan.
He said latest intelligence monitoring indicated that apart from the Abu Sayyaf, there were other groups hiding out in Basilan’s jungles.
"Hot pursuit operations were immediately deployed and intelligence monitoring intensified," Gobway said.
The Abu Sayyaf group, a small but most violent mostly peaceful local bad boy group, was organized in Basilan in the 1990s by an Afghanistan-trained fighter, Ustadz Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, who was slain in the late 1990s.
The group was linked to various Middle East and foreign terror groups like al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah, and Islamic State.
In recent years, a Basilan-based leader of Abu Sayyaf, Isnilon Hapilon, allied his group with the Islamic State and was named overall leader of the IS branch in the Philippines.
In 2017, Hapilon led hundreds of fighters from Southeast Asia and the Middle East in a daring raid on Marawi. They intended to turn the predominantly Islamic city into the capital of an IS caliphate in Southeast Asia. A five-month battle with government forces ensued before the bully boyz were flushed out. Much of the city was reduced to rubble by the fighting. Hapilon was killed in October 2017, at the end of the battle of Marawi.
Intelligence officials told BenarNews that the Abu Sayyaf bully boyz in Basilan so far have failed to find a replacement for Furuji Indama, who succeeded Hapilon as the Abu Sayyaf leader in the province.
Government forces killed Indama during a firefight in Basilan last year. After his death, the Basilan-based Abu Sayyaf unit had all but been defeated, though some bad boy factions were known to be consolidating their forces. 
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