Mindanao bombings condemned as ‘barbaric’
As Moro rebel groups went on a bombing rampage the past days all over Mindanao, a Muslim group in Davao City has assured full cooperation with military and police in ferreting out terrorists making an attempt to sow chaos in the city.
The United Muslim Council for Peace and Development (UMCPD) said it would help ensure that Davao City is 99.9 percent safe from terrorists. UMCPD is working closely with the Army’s Task Force Davao, which was assigned here shortly after the city was hit by two bombings five years ago said to have been carried out by Moro terrorists.
UMCPD president Aleem Jamal Munib said this week his group is on watch over Moro communities and had talked with Muslim leaders to be vigilant against entry of terrorists.
In 2003, 38 people were killed and more than 300 injured when bombs ripped through the Sasa Wharf in March and at the passenger lounge of the Davao International Airport in April.
Authorities here say Moro terrorists—with links to the terror groups Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah—could find haven in Muslim communities here as they plan to carry out bombing missions.
We are now making rounds of our communities four times a day to discourage the terrorists, said a Muslim deputy mayor who joined Munid in a press conference on Thursday to announce what the Muslims in Davao City are doing to thwart any violence in the city.
The conference was held as scores were killed in Cotabato, Iligan and Jolo during a week that saw a rampage of bombings suspected to have been carried out by Moro terrorist groups. Munid led his officers in condemning the bombings as “barbaric and against Muslim faith.”
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