From AP,
A bomb exploded during Christmas Day Mass at a chapel inside a police camp in the volatile southern Philippines, wounding a priest and 10 churchgoers.
The device was hidden in a ventilation window near the ceiling of the chapel, which is on the compound where the provincial police office is located in Jolo town on Jolo Island, Sulu provincial police said.
The island is a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants, but it wasn't clear who was responsible for the bombing. Investigators recovered parts of a cell phone they believe detonated the device
[The Rev. Romeo Villanueva, 72, said] "I was reading the Gospel. I was not yet finished when there was a loud explosion,"
A bombing at the main Jolo cathedral last year killed two churchgoers, and the cathedral has been attacked in the past with grenades. The Abu Sayyaf, notorious for high-profile kidnappings and beheadings, has been blamed for those attacks.
From AFP 1,
"The explosion occurred at around 7:15 in the morning while the mass was going on. Six people were slightly wounded in the explosion," military spokesman Lieutenant Randolph Cabangbang said.
It [Abu Sayyaf] is believed to have carried out the worst terror attacks in Philippine history including the bombing of a passenger ferry in Manila Bay that killed more than 100 people in 2004.
It has also kidnapped many foreigners and Filipino Christians, hiding them in the jungles of Jolo and other southern islands.
UPDATE: From AFP 2,
President Benigno Aquino said Monday that investigators had identified a suspect and a possible "terror plot" in the Christmas day bombing of a church in the southern Philippines.
"There is a suspect that has been named. The modus operandi... is similar to various other incidents and an (intelligence) report of a new terror campaign especially in that part of the country," Aquino told reporters.
Source: AFP (1, 2) , AP
Comments: Probably just another Christmas terror attack by Muslim terrorists.
The fact that the church was in the same building as the police station raises some suspicision as to whether some of the police might be members of, or linked to Muslim terrorists.
In nothern Nigeria, where Muslims are the majority, some police are suspected of being members of the Boko Haram terrorists and helping them.
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Muslim 'Christmas is evil' dawa poster in London, and website says it's pagan, sex, abortion, blasphemy, 'claiming God has a son', drugs, alcohol and violence and that Islam is better [Muslim extremists think that Christmas is evil so it would be no surprise if they bomb Christmas celebrations]
Nigerian police chief says some police may be Boko Haram Islamic terrorist members tipping off police movements resulting in failure so far to stop them [Don't trust the police]
Two kidnapped Malaysians freed in Philippines after apparently being abandoned as their captors with ties to al-Qaida linked Abu Sayyaf flee pursuing police commandos
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