Church bombings wounds six in Philippines, eight dead in Nigeria
by sheikyermami on December 25, 2010
Unbelievers religious holidays offend Muslims. Perhaps they should have asked the Islamic Defender Front (FPI) to “protect” their church at Christmas:
ArabNews: MANILA: A bomb exploded during Christmas Day Mass at a chapel inside a police camp in the volatile southern Philippines, wounding a priest and 10 churchgoers. The device was hidden in a ventilation window near the ceiling of the chapel, which is on the compound where the provincial police office is located in Jolo town on Jolo Island, Sulu provincial police said. (Vlad Tepes)
Six people were wounded when a bomb went off in a church during Christmas mass on a southern Philippine island known as a hotbed of Islamic extremism, the military said.
The Australian/thanks to Keith
Military officials would not immediately name any suspects in the blast on Jolo island today but the island is a known bastion of the militant Abu Sayyaf group.
Update:
Christmas Eve bombings in Nigeria leave 8 dead, many injured
(CNN) – Five blasts went off in the Nigerian city of Jos Friday night as residents were celebrating Christmas Eve, leaving dead and injured, a regional government official said. The exact number of casualties was not determined, but an eyewitness said he counted eight dead. “The explosion occurred at around 7:15 in the morning while the mass was going on. Six people were slightly wounded in the explosion,” military spokesman Lieutenant Randolph Cabangbang said.
Among those wounded was the priest officiating the mass, he added.
Police investigators were searching the site for clues as to who might be responsible, he said.
The Abu Sayyaf, a gang of self-styled Islamic militants founded in the 1990s with seed money from Osama bin Laden’s network, has long used the mostly-Muslim island of Jolo as a base, carrying out kidnappings and bombings.
It is believed to have carried out the worst terror attacks in Philippine history including the bombing of a passenger ferry in Manila Bay that killed more than 100 people in 2004.
It has also kidnapped many foreigners and Filipino Christians, hiding them in the jungles of Jolo and other southern islands.
US forces have been deployed in the southern Philippines since 2002 to train local troops in hunting down the Abu Sayyaf.
A roadside bomb believed planted by the Abu Sayyaf killed two US soldiers on Jolo in September last year.
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