Lorenzana believed that the perpetrators of the attack on the headquarters of the First Brigade Combat Team were highly radicalized young Muslims. “During the American occupation, local Muslim fighters known as ‘juramentados’ launched suicide attacks against the US forces in Mindanao,” he said. But if you go back to history during the American occupation between 1901 and 1915, juramentados assaulted the Americans,” he added. The twin blasts that rocked the Army camp on June 28 left three soldiers and three civilians dead and scores wounded. A senior security official backed Lorenzana’s theory that the Abu Sayyaf could be employing “juramentado” tactics in fighting government forces in Sulu.

Source: Philippine Star July 07, 2019 19:52 UTC