North Cotabato is rocked with riddling IED explosions obviously orchestrated against the management of Husky Bus Company. Last March 24 at about 2:45 early morning, another IED exploded in one of said company’s stations in national highway of Brgy Mother Tamontaka, Cotabato City where two bus units were slightly damaged. Initial investigations on said incident found that the used explosive device was command detonated using a still unknown cellular phone. Synthesizing the manner and weapons used were a signature of the renowned threat-group Al-Khobar who served as a special unit of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) concentrating on explosive-component use and extortion scheme across Cotabato area. This is what behind the table peace talks is serving for the MILF. The Moro group is counting on the resumption of negotiations while strengthening armed contingents by buying ammunitions through extorted money from various local and foreign companies in their threatened populace.
Prior to said blast about a day before, a fragmentation grenade was recovered near the residence of Dr Emilio Escobillo, owner of the Husky Bus Company in General Santos City. This was in consonance to the series of alleged abortive extort negotiations between the Al-Khobar and the Husky Management. As sourced, extreme measures to be conducted by said terror group would include broad daylight bombings which the blast in Kidapawan City last March 22 that wounded 7 civilians served as a potent example.
Tracing back, bus lines operating within Cotabato and Davao area admitted a Php 30,000.00 pay-off every month to AL-KHOBAR. But often than not as extort schemes plunged, the said group resort to bloody bombings that at present claimed almost (11) lives and wounded more than (80) others. Accounts of said incidents include the May 18 2007 bombing of the Weena Bus Line terminal in Cotabato City along Don Rufino Alonzo Avenue which killed (3) and wounded (20) more. Following that were the series of attacks in a span of June 08 2007 till early August of same year. The explosions were directed at specific transport companies such as the Weena and Yellow Bus lines operating in Regions 11 and 12. And just recently, the said MILF wing-group is targeting Husky Bus Lines that is based in General Santos.
The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in connivance with the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)/Foreign Militant Jihadist (FMJ) is what created AL-KHOBAR. In the first quarter of 2007, bombing orchestrated within Davao-Cotabato areas all pinpointed to AL KHOBAR. This advented the escalation of threat against said group.
As sourced-out, MILF ranking officials head the AL-KHOBAR. As such, identified among them were Arman Ronda alias Abdul Jabar, Chief SOG, National Guard Base Command (NGBC), BIAF-MILF. More so, MILF Chief of Staff Sammy Gambar was known to be putting a hand on the group thru middleman Ali Mohammad alias ALCOBAR. Weaponry such as the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) used by AL-KHOBAR were deliberately funded by the MILF through SOG Commander Mukasid DELNA. All of these MILF officials were trained by foreign terror cells to include AL Qaeda.
The Husky bus lines are now being used to resuscitate MILF’s dying logistics. The secessionist group think it is easiest way of getting even with Christian-run companies and ofcourse threat escalation in Mindanao. They have no remorse for either a Christian dying alongside ten unwary Muslims with their indiscriminate bomb blast. They are not fighting for Moro rights nor are they soldiers of Allah.
The MILF and its AL-KHOBAR unit are taking lives in exchange for a pile truck of cash. They are driven with money and they shed blood for the same.
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