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| Philippines: Female "sexy bombers" may be new terror weapon, say police |
| 2008-01-17 |
| (AKI) – In the Philippines, they have been labelled "sexy bombers" and they are believed to be the latest weapon from the Islamic terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. Police from the volatile southern province of Mindanao are taking seriously the possibility that women have been trained and are ready to blow themselves up in the name of Islam. According to information given to intelligence services, there are at least 10 potential female suicide bombers ready to carry out attacks. Several cities in Mindanao, the southernmost island of the archipelago which is home to 4.5 million Muslims, would be among their potential targets. The island is the scene of an ongoing secessionist battle being fought by Islamic separatists for the past 30 years. The head of police in Mindanao has called for local police to investigate reports that the female bombers may have been recruited and trained. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 I don't' want to sound unsympathetic to our Muslim friends in the Southern Islands of the Philippines but after over a century of warfare, defeat, regroup, warfare, repeat... the concept of genocide starts to look reasonable. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-01-17 14:08 |
| #6 Philippines: Female "sexy bombers" may be new terror weapon, say police NOW HEAR THIS: STRIP 'EM FIRST, then bring 'em to my Quarters and I'll search em for Bombs! you know.. for the safty of the entire ship.. theat's my job! /~:) |
| Posted by: RD 2008-01-17 12:30 |
| #5 Guess it gives "boom-boom" a new meaning... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-17 12:19 |
| #4 Hah! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-17 11:49 |
| #3 I'm too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt So sexy it hurts (when it bursts) And I'm too sexy for Manilla too sexy for Manilla New York and J Islamiyah I'm too sexy for my car bomb too sexy for my car bomb ... |
| Posted by: Right Said Ahmed 2008-01-17 09:47 |
| #2 Female "sexy bombers" may be new terror weapon, say police Be on the look out for hot camels. They could be packing. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-17 09:41 |
| #1 The island is the scene of an ongoing secessionist battle being fought by Islamic separatists for the past 30 years. They've been fighting since the Spanish laid claim to the region and passed it over to the Americans after the little tiff called the Spanish-American War. The Spanish never did really control the area. They only had a 'presence', but that didn't stop them from sticking the gullible people in Washington. The Moro culture was maintained by piracy and slavery. Two professions they weren't about to given up without a fight which they got with the Americans still in the anti-slavery mood a generation after the Civil War. What ensued was a multi-decade 'quagmire' the bring the place under real control [very similar to the Spanish/Mexican hand off over the Apache in the Southwest, whom both neither really got the indigenous people under 'western' rule]. So this has been going on, in one form or venue, for over a hundred years, not thirty. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-01-17 07:08 |