Posted on 11/29/2016 7:20:45 AM PST by csvset
(CNN)Nine members of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's security team have been injured after their convoy was hit by an explosive device.
One person is in a critical condition after the blast in Marawi, in the southern island of Mindanao. President Duterte was not with the convoy.
"We assure our brave men and women who put their lives on the line for duty and country that their Commander-in-Chief will never abandon them in their time of need," Duterte's spokesman Martin Andanar told CNN.
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Oh boy....Either these idiots pissed in the wrong tent or Duterte false-flagged them for the excuse. Either way Allah is going to be really busy.
Rut Roh. You’re sure right about that.
I thought Duterte was making nice with Moro and other muslim groups. Maybe these are drug-dealing muslims.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has attracted international criticism for the bloodshed driven by the war on drugs he launched when he took office nearly four months ago.
And he has caused more worry in Washington, DC, through his repudiation of ties with the US and seeming embrace of China — a move that has stirred concern among the Philippines' neighbors in the region and among US policymakers as they try to respond to China's growing influence and assertiveness in the South China Sea.
However, Duterte's initiatives — a brutal crackdown on the drug trade and an opening to Beijing — may come in conflict with each other if the Chinese role in the Philippines' drug scene becomes a sticking point.
Duterte has referred to the connection between China and drugs in the Philippines since mid-summer. After a July 12 international-court ruling dismissing China's claims in the South China Sea, Duterte suggested that many drug-related killings involved Chinese nationals.
"Those who die and the bodies are unclaimed, who will claim them? Most of them really are Chinese," he said on July 17. He also claimed that drug organizations cooked shabu, a name for the methamphetamine consumed in the Philippines, aboard ships originating from China.
Later that month he doubled down saying, "Where is the big fish [in illegal drugs]? If you want them, go to China. Look for them there."
Isn’t Mindanao one of the islands where the islamists have been waging a war of conquest since way before the Spanish showed up?
Since the 14th Century or thereabouts.
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