Another al-Qaeda attack in Manila & Pakistan?

This is just horrible: Explosion in Manila mall kills eight - A powerful blast rocked a crowded shopping mall in Manila's financial district Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens. Police in the capital declared the highest state of alert and did not rule out a bomb.

In the past, Manila has been a target of Al-Qaida-linked militants, who have waged a yearslong bloody bombing campaign in the southern Philippines.

In 2004, Abu Sayyaf militants, notorious for kidnappings and beheadings, blew up a passenger ferry in Manila Bay, killing 116 people in the country's worst terrorist attack. The following year, four people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded on a Makati bus and two southern cities.

Several months ago, authorities were alerted to an alleged terror plot to plant bombs in Manila's business districts of Makati and Ortigas, said a government counterterrorism official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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Muslim radicals ought to be stopped from popping-up everywhere. I mean for chrissakes, they even bombed the Maldives! I feel angry right now because so many people have been killed today by Muslim radicals. About 136 innocent folks in Pakistan and now 8 innocent shoppers in the Phillies. When will these terrorists stop? Until the whole world is under an Islamic caliphate? Until all women are wearing burqas? Until all children know how to hold a sword and behead the Unfaithful? Well screw all that, I'm Catholic and I'll always be one!

Tonight I hope everyone sends a genuine prayer for the victims in Pakistan and elsewhere in the world. They did not deserve this.