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2023-12-10 Southeast Asia
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Deadly Philippine bombing exposes weakness in intel gathering as Mindanao State U bombers named
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[BenarNews] A deadly bombing of a Catholic Mass in southern Marawi city this week has exposed the Philippine military’s weakness in intelligence gathering, officials said Thursday, after identifying two Filipinos as main suspects in the attack claimed by Islamic State
| The national police identified two krazed killers, bomb expert Kadapi Mimbesa (also known as Engineer) and Arsani Membisa (also known as Katab) as the bombers, known operatives of Daulah Islamiyah, the local ISIS group. |
...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....
Death Eaters. The bombing that killed four people who were attending the worship service on Sunday inside a gym at Mindanao State University was apparently meant as a response to the military’s sustained offensives against pro-Islamic State (IS) Death Eaters and allied groups, officials said.
"We don’t have enough capability to know everything that’s going around us," Armed Forces of the Philippines front man Col. Medel Agular said in a telephone interview with news hounds on Thursday.
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"Because of the incident, there is a need for us to enhance our intelligence capability," he said, adding that the military "cannot cover everything" in Mindanao, the Philippines’ southern region, where Death Eaters from various groups have fought government troops for decades.
On Wednesday, the national police identified two IS-linked krazed killers, Kadapi Mimbesa (also known Engineer) and Arsani Membisa (also known as Katab) as the alleged bombers. The announcement came days after the Philippine president blamed "foreign terrorists" for the attack but without releasing details.
CAUGHT ON CCTV
The man identified as Engineer is believed to be the bomb expert and has existing arrest warrants for cases ranging from kidnapping to illegal possession of explosives, national police spokeswoman Col. Jean Fajardo told news hounds.
"When police reviewed the footage from the closed-circuit television outside the school, we sighted the two suspects at 6:27 a.m. and [they] were seen entering the gymnasium at about 7 a.m. All of those were seen in the enhanced footage," Fajardo told news hounds.
After the two suspects left the gym, one of them pulled out his cell phone as if to make a call just before the earth-shattering kaboom, Fajardo said.
"They were identified by the witnesses through the rogues (gallery of) pictures shown to them by police probers, including their attire," Fajardo said.
Marawi has been under close watch by the military and police for six years after fighters from pro-IS krazed killer groups seized its central area in an attempt to make the lakeside city an Islamic State caliphate in Southeast Asia.
A five-month battle ensued during which at least 1,200 krazed killers, government troops and non-combatants were killed before govenment forces retook the city. Hundreds of IS fighters from Southeast Asia as well as the Middle East had converged in Marawi in response to a call from the IS regional leader, Isnilon Hapilon, who would die in the fighting.
Since then, the military has admitted there were several krazed killer stragglers in the region, but played down their capability of carrying out an attack — while noting random bombings were possible.
On Thursday, Sen. Ronald dela Rosa, a former national police chief, said there appeared to be a "failure to appreciate intelligence or a failure to perform security preparations based on the intelligence.
"Because even if you have the information, but you chose to ignore the intelligence report and not do any action, then for sure when the attack happens, you will be defenseless," he told news hounds. "You were not prepared."
Aguilar, meanwhile, said the military’s responsibilities could be stretched thin.
"The failure maybe is not because of negligence on their part, but probably on the capability to cover everything by the military alone," he said.
Previously, Armed Forces chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. dismissed complaints about a failure in intelligence, noting that officers were aware of possible plans of terrorist attacks in retaliation for recent losses.
Brawner was referring to military operations against Daulah Islamiyah-Maute Group and 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...
leaders in Maguindanao del Sur, 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...
and Lanao del Sur, including one last week that killed 11 krazed killers.
He said there was no specific information about a target but said the military informed security forces and local government units of the threat.
The suspected bombers, Mimbesa and Membisa, are known operatives of the Daulah Islamiyah, the local name for the IS group. Its members include fighters from several Filipino krazed killer factions, Fajardo said.
Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza, the police chief for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM), said the two suspects are residents of Marawi, a Moslem-majority city in Asia’s only predominantly Christian nation.
Authorities did not say where the two, who face arrest warrants over their alleged involvement in previous bombings, could be found. 
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