Philippines arrests jihadists

Tiny minority of extremists update: arrests today in the Philippines, France, and Italy, and murders in Thailand. "Philippines arrests Muslim militants," from Radio Australia, with thanks to Twostellas:

The military says Jundan Jamalul, an Abu Sayyaf commander, and six of his men have been arrested in a raid near the town of Bongao in the Tawi-Tawi island group....

The Abu Sayyaf has claimed the 2004 bombing of a ferry in Manila Bay, killing more than 100 people.

The group was founded in the early 1990s with the aim to unite Filipino Muslims to fight for a Muslim state encompassing the southern Philippines.

The Philippine and United States governments consider the Abu Sayyaf a terrorist group and claim it has links to the al-Qaeda network.

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Fellow commentators, this too is our fight.

We have to support those who take out these Islamic bastards wherever they are.

Imshallah.

Locals tantalized by the likes of Tantawi even as far as Tawi-Tawi.

dgene:

Please don't invoke Satan like that.