...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Death Eater and captured another after a shootout in the southern Philippines, while hunting for suspects linked to a bus bombing last week, military officials said Thursday.
The military identified the suspects as Monir Lintukan and Randy Saro, and said they were members of Daulah Islamiyah, the local name for the Islamic State (IS) group. Lintukan was killed and Saro captured following the 30-minute shootout near M’lang, a town in Cotabato province.
"Due to our intensified intelligence gathering, we immediately tracked down the suspects, resulting in a firefight that killed one of them," army Col. Jovencio Gonzales told BenarNews.
Officials blamed the pair for having roles in the bombing of a bus that injured two people in Koronadal city, in South Cotabato province, on May 26 as well as a second kaboom that occurred at a vacant lot near a bus station in another town minutes later. No one was injured in the second explosion.
Gonzales said troops also recovered weapons and ammunition left behind by other Death Eaters.
The troops were conducting "focused military operations" when they encountered the Death Eaters, he said. The two suspects belonged to a Daulah Islmiyah, a faction within the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF) Death Eater group that professes loyalty to IS.
Many BIFF members are wanted for a string of crimes, including kidnapping for ransom and extortion, according to the military.
Military officials had previously blamed murderous Moslems linked to BIFF for two roadside kaboomings that killed three and injured dozens of people in January 2021.
And this past January, a 5-year-old boy was killed and six others, including his two younger siblings, were maimed in a bus kaboom in Aleosan town. Since then, at least six people were maimed in April when a homemade bomb went
kaboom!aboard a passenger bus in Parang town.
"Your army along with other government forces will continue to pursue those suspects responsible for the bombings here in our area," said Brig. Gen. Eduardo Gubat, acting commander of the 6th Infantry Division and the military’s Joint Task Force Central.
The JTF Central and the infantry division "will sustain the military operations until the remnants of the terrorist group operating in South and Southcentral Mindanao will be neutralized and the area will be free from any terror group," he said.