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MANILA - Philippine security forces have arrested an Egyptian who is believed to be a unit commander of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

 

Fehmi Lassqued was nabbed over the weekend with his Filipina girlfriend Anabel Salipada in Manila's Ermita district, Director-General Ronald dela Rosa, the police chief, said at a news briefing on Monday (Feb 19).

 

Salipada, 32, is from Tupi town in Maguindanao province, a hotbed of Muslim insurgency in the war-torn southern island of Mindanao.

 

Firearms and materials for making pipe bombs were seized.

 

Mr De la Rosa said Lassqued was a "commander" and "government negotiator" of ISIS in Syria.

 

Lassqued has been staying in the Philippines since July 2016 and has been travelling "in and out of Manila" throughout his stay using a fake Tunisian passport.

 

Lassqued told reporters he "was ISIS before", but was whisked away before he could give a full explanation.

 

Lassqued is the second ISIS-linked foreigner to be arrested this year.

 

Last month security forces nabbed suspected terrorist Abdelkhakim Labidi Adib, 20, from Spain, in Basilan province, stronghold of the small but brutal Abu Sayyaf group in Mindanao.

 

Labidi Adib was described as an Abu Sayyaf "sympathiser" and a "campaigner" for an ISIS province in the Philippines.

 

Director Oscar Albayalde said ISIS has already found "safe havens" across metropolitan Manila. "Here in Metro Manila, there are several Muslim enclaves where they can hide," he told reporters.

 

Mr Albayalde said police are monitoring known ISIS sympathisers in Manila.

 

Metro Manila is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, serving as home to over 13 million Filipinos.

 

In November 2016, security forces defused a powerful bomb found inside a rubbish bin near the United States embassy in Manila.

 

The bomb had the same "signature" as the one that exploded in September that same year at a popular night market in Davao, home city of President Rodrigo Duterte, which was blamed on Maute. The attack left 15 dead.

 

Metro Manila suffered its worst terrorist attack in December 2000, when militants detonated bombs in five locations across the region, including at an MRT station, killing 22 in total.

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-arrests-suspected-isis-leader-in-manila

Just when you think you have TDS eradicate,  a new case shows up.

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1 hour ago, Chris Duffy said:

MANILA - Philippine security forces have arrested an Egyptian who is believed to be a unit commander of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

 

Fehmi Lassqued was nabbed over the weekend with his Filipina girlfriend Anabel Salipada in Manila's Ermita district, Director-General Ronald dela Rosa, the police chief, said at a news briefing on Monday (Feb 19).

 

Salipada, 32, is from Tupi town in Maguindanao province, a hotbed of Muslim insurgency in the war-torn southern island of Mindanao.

 

Firearms and materials for making pipe bombs were seized.

 

Mr De la Rosa said Lassqued was a "commander" and "government negotiator" of ISIS in Syria.

 

Lassqued has been staying in the Philippines since July 2016 and has been travelling "in and out of Manila" throughout his stay using a fake Tunisian passport.

 

Lassqued told reporters he "was ISIS before", but was whisked away before he could give a full explanation.

 

Lassqued is the second ISIS-linked foreigner to be arrested this year.

 

Last month security forces nabbed suspected terrorist Abdelkhakim Labidi Adib, 20, from Spain, in Basilan province, stronghold of the small but brutal Abu Sayyaf group in Mindanao.

 

Labidi Adib was described as an Abu Sayyaf "sympathiser" and a "campaigner" for an ISIS province in the Philippines.

 

Director Oscar Albayalde said ISIS has already found "safe havens" across metropolitan Manila. "Here in Metro Manila, there are several Muslim enclaves where they can hide," he told reporters.

 

Mr Albayalde said police are monitoring known ISIS sympathisers in Manila.

 

Metro Manila is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, serving as home to over 13 million Filipinos.

 

In November 2016, security forces defused a powerful bomb found inside a rubbish bin near the United States embassy in Manila.

 

The bomb had the same "signature" as the one that exploded in September that same year at a popular night market in Davao, home city of President Rodrigo Duterte, which was blamed on Maute. The attack left 15 dead.

 

Metro Manila suffered its worst terrorist attack in December 2000, when militants detonated bombs in five locations across the region, including at an MRT station, killing 22 in total.

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-arrests-suspected-isis-leader-in-manila

Hey Duffy thanks for using a awesome newspaper to start with. I absolutely love the Strait Times out of Singapore and it's one of the few international actual newspapers that I will sit down and read. But my asawa and I were talking/laughing about this last night as a matter of fact. I was sitting down watching this show called "Drug Wars" and they had at least 3 episodes(30 mins each) on the Philippines. The last one was on Mindanao and how war torn an dangerous it is. My wife was laughing because "they keep saying my island is dangerous but you went there many times with no problems". I am the type of guy that I don't just stay in Davao or Tagum City but I like to go out to the province with my wife's family up in the mountains of Compostela Valley where she is from and the NPA rule.

I have never had any problem whatsoever up there and I like to go DEEP into the mountains by myself. What's funny is that my wife's family is well known up in those parts so I literally can't move a muscle without someone telling my wife "hey we saw Josh up here riding the motorbike, we just thought we should let you know".

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44 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Hey Duffy thanks for using a awesome newspaper to start with. I absolutely love the Strait Times out of Singapore and it's one of the few international actual newspapers that I will sit down and read. But my asawa and I were talking/laughing about this last night as a matter of fact. I was sitting down watching this show called "Drug Wars" and they had at least 3 episodes(30 mins each) on the Philippines. The last one was on Mindanao and how war torn an dangerous it is. My wife was laughing because "they keep saying my island is dangerous but you went there many times with no problems". I am the type of guy that I don't just stay in Davao or Tagum City but I like to go out to the province with my wife's family up in the mountains of Compostela Valley where she is from and the NPA rule.

I have never had any problem whatsoever up there and I like to go DEEP into the mountains by myself. What's funny is that my wife's family is well known up in those parts so I literally can't move a muscle without someone telling my wife "hey we saw Josh up here riding the motorbike, we just thought we should let you know".

I am the same way, I go all over for the most part. 

 

I think the Western part of Mindanao region is where the true danger lies especially. Thus the whole region gets labeled as dangerous

 

Places or areas I will not go are : Jolo,  Cotabato, Zamboanga,  and area like that.  It seems to risky and dangerous.

 

 

Just when you think you have TDS eradicate,  a new case shows up.

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5 minutes ago, Chris Duffy said:

I am the same way, I go all over for the most part. 

I think the Western part of Mindanao region is where the true danger lies especially. Thus the whole region gets labeled as dangerous

Places or areas I will not go are : Jolo,  Cotabato, Zamboanga,  and area like that.  It seems to risky and dangerous.

Totally agree. I want to go to Korondal because I have some friends there but my asawa says Hell NO. But we will go to GenSan this year to visit the grave of a good friend of my wife's. My wife really wants to go there to pay her respects to her and her family because that woman took her under her wing when she first got to Qatar as a OFW.

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23 hours ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Totally agree. I want to go to Korondal because I have some friends there but my asawa says Hell NO. But we will go to GenSan this year to visit the grave of a good friend of my wife's. My wife really wants to go there to pay her respects to her and her family because that woman took her under her wing when she first got to Qatar as a OFW.

I would have no issue going to gensan myself. I have never been.  If I was a single guy I would go, there seems to be something in the water there.

 

What I do find interesting in that article there was a bomb found outside the US Embassy that was similar to the one the killed 14 in Davao.  This is the first time I had heard of that.

Just when you think you have TDS eradicate,  a new case shows up.

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