Jihad in the Philippines: 3 dead in bombing
The war on jihad is global. Someone tell John Edwards:
A Philippine congressman who had been targeted by Muslim militants was among three people killed Tuesday night when a bomb exploded at an entrance of the Philippine House of Representatives, police said.
Rep. Wahab Akbar, a former member of a Muslim rebel group that signed a peace accord with the government in 1996, died at the hospital, his chief of staff said.
Metropolitan Manila Police Chief Geary Barias said a lawmaker’s driver and a congressional staff member also were killed. Seven other people were wounded, including two congresswomen.
Police and soldiers in the capital went on high alert, but Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno sought to play down the possible involvement of Muslim extremists, saying the investigation was pointing away from a terrorist attack and “more of a directed assault on certain individual.”
“There were threats on life of Akbar,” Puno said. “The indications are that that was the case both in terms of location of the bomb and the manner it was set off.”
It appears the killings were retribution by the Abu Sayyaf for Akbar’s decision to turn on them:
Akbar was once a member of the Moro National Liberation Front, a Muslim rebel group that dropped its secessionist goal and signed a peace accord with the government in September 1996.
Some security officials have suspected that Akbar knew the leaders of Abu Sayyaf, which has its roots on Basilan island. But they said he later had a falling out with Abu Sayyaf commanders and started fighting them.
See-Dubya blogged here about the Manila mall bombing last month, which killed 11 people and injured more than 100.
Think jihad in the Philippines has no connection to our own homeland security?
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3? last I saw it was just a driver…
Must be more folks who misunderstand their peaceful religion.
And the beat goes on.
Read the article.
My iGoogle feeder for CNN just gave me a story about the one.
Damn.
The attackers seem to have long, long memories…
Obama was heard to say:
If the Philippine congressman had just talked to them…
Sad on the one hand, angry on the other. This Long War must be won, we have no choice but to fight to win.
The time is near (or has past as far as I am concerned) for everyone; Christians, Atheists, Buddhists, etc., to unite against a sworn enemy of democracy everywhere. Anywhere there is a democracy they will attack. They will not stop. They cannot be coddled. The time for negotiations and discussions has past. We must speak back to them in the only language they understand.
My Uncle is a Catholic priest in Mindanao. He’s said dealing with jihad has become a way of life; he’s prepared for the worst as a bit of a high level target. Ugh. G’damned jihad.
someone tell the crapweasels ..eg..
D E M O C R A T S there is a GWOT
ask the grieving phillipino survivors
#7 It’s not the democracy they are attcking, It’s anyone that is a non-muslum.
twiggman,
Besides, they attack other Muslims.
Everything we hold dear to us is at stake, trust me on that.
#11 I hear you,and I do trust what you are saying….
I agree this one is walking like a duck, but let us wait till it quacks.
Glorietta II (the Mall bombing) appears to have been an accident. DJB Rizalist and MLQIII have posted a number of blogs stating authorities and all evidence point to a dumb accident.
As Michelle says, there is a connection here (provided the investigation does point at Abu Sayyaf which despite the caution noted above I strongly suspect) between such activities and global jihadism.
Operation Bojinka which eventually became the plan executed on 9/11 was hatched in Manila, Khalid Sheikh Mohd plotted the assassination of Pope JPII while in Manila (and coming up with Bojinka) and ran a test run of Bojinka killing some people on a JAL flight out of Manila.
Please excuse my naïveté, but how is a sophisticated bomb and accident?
an not and - (above)
Well, the jury’s still out on Glorietta II. May be a bomb, may not. Final report comes out soon.
feebiebabe,
Read Philippine Commentary and Manuel Quezon III’s blogs. They have posts where the authorities are not so certain of it being a bomb. DJB Rizalist at Philippine Commentary does an extensive review of technical documentation on explosions. With an eye towards a rather unsophisticated explosion or device.
In addition there were reports swabbings of the scene did not turn up any of the usual suspects in such explosions.
Manuel Quezon III also reports of a small fire in a restaurant at the scene a week or two earlier and speculated that may have damaged the restaurant’s natural gas supply.
As See-Dubya states the final report on Glorietta II is not out yet, we’ll see.
I think we should be outraged about this incident and the incident where several U.S. troops forced a young Iraqi patriot off a bridge, killing him.
Let us condemn all terrorism where it exists.
In Jesus’ name.
On behalf of SOAP.
PLEASE
IGNORE
HIM.
I’m pretty sure there’s a bunch of Muslims in the US who work with democracy just fine…
It’s the ones who want to kill us all for being infidels that seem to have a problem with it…
I understand. I will refrain until a copy of the report is finalized, however, if i was a betting gal……
I think we should condemn all terrorism. We as Christians ignore terrorism at our moral peril. We must also condemn the U.S.-led bombing of Japanese cities because I feel this is terrorism too.
IGNORE HIM
Where are you soap?
I need a pinch hitter over here….
I feel we should not ignore terrorism when it is committed in the name of good. We must never use good as an excuse to justify terrorism.
I think you misunderstand me when I say we must condemn terrorism committed everywhere. I condemn this incident forcefully.
As well as incidents committed by Christians.
However, I feel that one ceases to be a Christian or a Muslim when one begins to plan for the taking of innocent life.
IGNORE HIM.
swj, my motto is if it doesn’t apply, let it fly. I didn’t mean all Muslims. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Not sure where Soap is but I’ve got your back Feebs.
P.I.M.P.S. - flapdoodle.
Christ opposed intolerance, terrorism and abortion.
Feebs,
Great job. I bow in your direction. Thanks for taking up the slack.
I G N O R E
H I M
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BTW, first post. Howdy ya’ll from Houston, Texas.
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feebiebabe and On-my-soap-box,
My new term for that you are wanting everyone to do is P.I.M.P.S.
Please check out my post #88 last night in the Vet Day Obnoxiousness thread for the meaning of P.I.M.P.S.
Also, I have an abbreviation for your new friend … So.B
Just trying to help …
Thanks DL.
I didn’t want to call him that.
Man, did he kill this thread or what?
30 pcs of silver in #29
I see you passed on my new term while I was typing it … LOL … thanks …
That may not even be a viable policy here. When you have a sect of people who actively target even members of their own sect for not believing exactly the same, it does not exactly inspire confidence. Terrorism only works if people are terrified. I have enough faith in the American people to believe that we would resist but we should choose our friends wisely. As for me personally, all comment spam will be ignored until our gracious hostess grows tired of the constant interruption and he will be forced to go back to his leftist base and cry to people who care about how they were not allowed to spam threads here and those mean old righties banned him. (Even though he will be directly responsible yet still blame others)
WarTip. Agreed. However, my point was that I didn’t believe that all Muslims are aligned with the radicals/extremists, etc…
Your point is taken. Proceed with caution. I got it.
Haven’t the Philippine Army left Iraq yet?
Outstanding point. I believe they have left. I guess these bastards didn’t get the memo.
By the way, there is a picture I’m looking for, was the front cover of VOM (Voice of Martyrs) magazine that showed this 5 or 6 year old girl holding up a sign that said “STOP KILLING CHRISTIANS”. Think she was Filipino or Indonesian, not for sure. But the picture stops you dead in your tracks. I’ll link to it here one way or the other. I’ll scan it if I have to. It’s just one of the most stunning pictures I’ve ever seen.
No prob DL.!
Oh SouthernBoy,
This is the third time I have asked this - what is the denomination of your Church? You are starting to sound like a fake…
SouthernBoy, If you read the verses, Jesus said there would be Wars and rumors of wars, He didn’t say there would ever be world peace until He comes back. I don’t think the Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, or any other Christian denomination blew up the House of Representatives there in Manila. I wonder who was responsible? And Dear boy tell me when your world peace is coming? I want to hear the date of that. Don’t forget SouthernBoy next time it could be the U.S. Senate or House of Represenatives that gets bombed or one of your local shopping centers.
Except for the “starting to sound like” part…
I hope some of the liberal politicians in the PI learn from this and take a harder line with the islamofacists.
Two close friends of mine have married Manila-born goddesses over the past two years. I had the pleasure of meeting scores of their relatives at the respective wedding celebrations. These new Filipino friends of ours are some of the most genuine, good hearted and loyal souls I have met outside of the good ol’ US of A.
This war on Islamic Terror is not the first time good Americans and good Filipinos have stood together, fought together and spilled blood together. The stories of American military (including Filipino-Americans) and Filipino special forces vs. the Imperial Japanese war machine (from Melbourne to Bataan to Cabanatuan) are both extremely sorrowful and inspiring.
One of my favorite stories regards the Filipino special forces who demanded to be dropped in behind Japanese lines to gather the intel critical for a Luzon invasion. The average height and weight of a US infantryman back then was, something like 5′5″, 150 lbs. The average specs for a Filipino fighter was considerably less. So, in order to parachute the Filipino special ops accurately, they had to be weighted down with an extra 50 lbs on their persons, otherwise, “they would be blown back to Australia!”
The story continues, that after they landed back on their soil, you did NOT want to be Japanese.
Anyway, retracing the military history of Filipinos and Americans has helped amplify the shared values and the reasons why I assimilated so well with our Filipino guests at these recent weddings.
It has been about seven days since I came back from the Philippines and I hear of this. About a week before I went over was the Glorietta 2 explosion.
Most of the Muslim problems in the Philippines come from the Southern Island areas (Mindanao and Basilan) where the major issues have been going on since the guerilla warfare began in 1969.
In reality, however, the Muslims have been evading Spanish and American colonialism for 300 years. It was the the policies of the post-1946, Christian-dominated Philippine state that led to the antagonism because of the wave of Christians coming from the Northern Islands to settle the majority Muslim southern Islands.
It is only the appearance of the militant group the Abu Sayyaf in 1995 that has caused more problems because of their well publicized kidnappings and beheadings of Christians. Both the MNLF and the MILF have condemned the activities of the Abu Sayyaf.
The Abu Sayyaf are by far the smallest of the three Muslim groups and the ones the U.S. armed forces have been invited to help the Philippine Army eradicate.
It’s unitarian universalist; all religions are welcome at my church. We are all One in His eyes.