Explosion in Zamboanga

Zamboanga is the mountainous state out on the Sulu archipelago wherein live the 200 or so teenage (and younger) members of Abu Sayyaf... the "Muslim terrorists" who have been confabulated into the "grand terrorist threat of the Southern Philippines".

A couple of times per year, they manage to scrape together enough money from the recyclable value of the empty whiskey bottles lying around their camp in the mountains to put together one bomb. Then, they sneak down into town, set it off, hurt a bunch of innocent Filipinos, and then disappear into the hills for some more drunken partying. They aren't particularly successful, aside from scaring off tourists and giving the government a reason to keep the army well-trained... but that doesn't seem to dissuade them from staying up in the mountains on brandy benders, preaching to themselves about what good Muslims they are.

Anyway, Abu Sayaff has had their standard bit of underwhelming murder and mayhem today. The target seems to have been the USAID (United States Agency for International Development) office relatives of army members in Zamboanga. Naturally, only innocent Filipinos were injured.