{"id":83364,"date":"2016-12-01T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=83364"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:12:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:12:48","slug":"2-filipino-militants-left-bomb-near-us-embassy-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/12\/01\/2-filipino-militants-left-bomb-near-us-embassy-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Filipino militants who left bomb near US Embassy captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83366\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dela-Rosa_US-Embassy-bombers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83366\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dela-Rosa_US-Embassy-bombers.jpg\" alt=\"The militants, Rashid Kilala and Jiaher Guinar, belonged to a small Muslim militant group called Ansar Al-khilafa Philippines. (Photo: Philippine National Police\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dela-Rosa_US-Embassy-bombers.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dela-Rosa_US-Embassy-bombers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dela-Rosa_US-Embassy-bombers-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The militants, Rashid Kilala and Jiaher Guinar, belonged to a small Muslim militant group called Ansar Al-khilafa Philippines. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pnp.pio\">Philippine National Police\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Philippine police officials have captured two local sympathizers of the Islamic State group who allegedly tried to detonate a bomb near the U.S. Embassy and prompted authorities to raise a terror alert.<\/p>\n<p>National police chief Director-General Ronald de la Rosa said Thursday the two militants, who were separately arrested on Wednesday, initially wanted but failed to detonate the homemade bomb at Manila&#8217;s seaside Rizal Park, their initial target.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb, which was designed to explode remotely with the use of a cellphone, also failed to explode near the embassy on Nov. 28 in Manila&#8217;s tourist and diplomatic section.<\/p>\n<p>Police presented the handcuffed suspects at a news conference, where they also announced a terror alert, which means more road security checkpoints would be set up, and possibly more raids on suspected militant hideouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t get alarmed but stay alert,\u201d dela Rosa said.<\/p>\n<p>The militants, Rashid Kilala and Jiaher Guinar, belonged to a small Muslim militant group called Ansar Al-khilafa Philippines. After failing to set off the bomb, which was made from an 81mm mortar round, the two decided to leave the explosive in a trash bin near the U.S. Embassy but again failed to set it off.<\/p>\n<p>They wanted to impress the Islamic State group and secure possible funding from the Middle East-based terrorist group, dela Rosa said. They also wanted to divert the military&#8217;s focus from an offensive against fellow Muslim militants in the south, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Philippine police officials have captured two local sympathizers of the Islamic State group who allegedly tried to detonate a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":83366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}