Two Dead, At Least 30 Hurt In Iligan City Blasts

[Steve]

SOURCE: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/12/18/08...gan-city-blastsILIGAN - Bombs ripped through two department stores in this southern Philippines city Thursday, killing two people and injuring at least 30 others, authorities said.Police swarmed the bloodied, upturned baggage check-in counters of the Unity store and the neighboring Gerry's Shoppers' Plaza in downtown Iligan to collect evidence shortly after the early afternoon blasts.Local police investigators and witnesses said the bombs went off within 15 minutes of each other.Two people, including a baggage counter clerk at one of the stores, were killed, Master Sergeant Armando Amoroso, a military investigator on the scene, told Agence France-Presse.Investigators had no immediate motive or suspects.Caught in CCTV - reportSurveillance videos reportedly showed two women allegedly planted explosive devices in one of the two department stores that were bombed.Iligan City Mayor Lawrence Cruz said investigators are currently studying the closed circuit television video (CCTV) that reportedly captured the images of the suspects who were caught in the act of planting the bombs.

[Jollygoodfellow]

SOURCE: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/12/18/08...gan-city-blastsILIGAN - Bombs ripped through two department stores in this southern Philippines city Thursday, killing two people and injuring at least 30 others, authorities said.Police swarmed the bloodied, upturned baggage check-in counters of the Unity store and the neighboring Gerry's Shoppers' Plaza in downtown Iligan to collect evidence shortly after the early afternoon blasts.Local police investigators and witnesses said the bombs went off within 15 minutes of each other.Two people, including a baggage counter clerk at one of the stores, were killed, Master Sergeant Armando Amoroso, a military investigator on the scene, told Agence France-Presse.Investigators had no immediate motive or suspects.Caught in CCTV - reportSurveillance videos reportedly showed two women allegedly planted explosive devices in one of the two department stores that were bombed.Iligan City Mayor Lawrence Cruz said investigators are currently studying the closed circuit television video (CCTV) that reportedly captured the images of the suspects who were caught in the act of planting the bombs."We will review the recorded CCTV to be very sure na ito nga ang mga nangyari

[Steve]

Doesn't it give you the sh%ts, why cant they fight their war without hurting the Innocent people.Assholes :(

I agree, my Asawa is still sleeping and hasn't seen this yet. My in-laws are about a half hour away from Iligan. I hope there aren't more sleepless nights ahead like a few months ago when they M.I.L.F. were occupying the coastal Barangays.

[BobNChe]

Unfortunately the very essence of terrorism is exactly what they perpetrated!

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.^[1]There is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism.^[2][3] Most common definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants.

Edited December 19, 2008 by BobNChe

[johnrxx99]

And it is as old as the hills. People tend to think it is a modern phnomenon but it goes back millenia.

[TheMason]

I think Churchill said it best....

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

[Mr Lee]

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/...found-in-IliganAnother bomb found in Iligan Death toll from blasts hits 3By Abigail KwokINQUIRER.netFirst Posted 18:43:00 12/19/2008Filed Under: Acts of terrorMANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE) Another bomb was found in Iligan City Friday, a day after twin explosions hit the city and just hours after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo visited, a police official said.In a phone interview, Superintendent Dimacuta Sanggacala, spokesman of the Lanao del Norte police, also said the death toll from the blasts that hit the Unicity Shopping Center and Jerry's Bargain Center Shopper's Plaza early Thursday afternoon had climbed to three with the death Friday afternoon of Aisah Bashier at the Iligan Medical Center.Jerry