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titsonritz
06-01-17, 14:19
AT least 25 people have been injured –*with fears Brits are among*those hurt – after masked gunmen started shooting inside a hotel in the capital of the Philippines.
Explosions were also heard at Resorts World Manila in Pasay City – as*terrified witnesses said they saw guests jumping from the second floor of the hotel, Manila Times reported.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3702217/manila-hotel-shooting-attack-philippines-pasay-city-resorts-world-latest-updates/
Averageman
06-01-17, 14:55
The Philippine President is just not the guy who's going to play these games with ISIS.
SomeOtherGuy
06-01-17, 15:17
The Philippine President is just not the guy who's going to play these games with ISIS.

Oh he'll play games alright, but not ones that the terrorists will like.
glocktogo
06-01-17, 15:19
AT least 25 people have been injured –*with fears Brits are among*those hurt – after masked gunmen started shooting inside a hotel in the capital of the Philippines.
Explosions were also heard at Resorts World Manila in Pasay City – as*terrified witnesses said they saw guests jumping from the second floor of the hotel, Manila Times reported.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3702217/manila-hotel-shooting-attack-philippines-pasay-city-resorts-world-latest-updates/

If you're a westerner and you're anywhere near a resort in the PI this week, you're an idiot. This attack was 100% foreseeable. :(
SteyrAUG
06-01-17, 16:18
The Philippine President is just not the guy who's going to play these games with ISIS.

With no disrespect to the victims intended, this might actually get good.
RazorBurn
06-01-17, 16:21
If you're a westerner and you're anywhere near a resort in the PI this week, you're an idiot. This attack was 100% foreseeable. :(

Truer words were never spoken!

Here's hoping their president opens up a total can of whoop ass on ISIS. The Philippine's have been a radical hotbed for years. My uncle sells and leases heavy equipment overseas. He went to the Philippines fifteen or so years ago, and he and his guys were barracked at a Philippine Army base, and escorted by Philippine soldiers when checking on the equipment. He e-mailed me a bunch of pictures of the base they were staying at. They even had an OV-10 Bronco among the Huey's that were there. Sorry, but the Philippine's are not on my vacation travel list for sure.
NoveskeFan
06-01-17, 16:23
If you're a westerner and you're anywhere near a resort in the PI this week, you're an idiot. This attack was 100% foreseeable. :(

I work with some retired Army guys who are still planning on taking their yearly PI trip later this month. :(
glocktogo
06-01-17, 16:39
I work with some retired Army guys who are still planning on taking their yearly PI trip later this month. :(

If they avoid touristy places and anywhere they speak gringo on a regular basis, they'll probably be OK. These IS types want high value targets like resorts and bars/clubs that primarily serve foreign customers.
NoveskeFan
06-01-17, 16:47
If they avoid touristy places and anywhere they speak gringo on a regular basis, they'll probably be OK. These IS types want high value targets like resorts and bars/clubs that primarily serve foreign customers.

In that case they might be fine :sarcastic: ...from the stories they tell me I'm pretty sure they have second families over there.
soulezoo
06-01-17, 17:05
Or the kind of games the rest of the world community likes either. Well except maybe the Israelis....
platoonDaddy
06-01-17, 18:28
Just heard on Fox it was a robbery and he didn't shoot at anyone.
Honu
06-01-17, 20:12
sadly look at last week over 200 hostages etc...isis beheading the police chief etc..

have not seen updates on this but think its still unresolved
platoonDaddy
06-02-17, 05:12
Maybe he didn't shoot anyone, but 36 six dead from suffocation.


At least 36 people suffocated at a resort in the capital of the Philippines Friday after a gunman set several gambling tables on fire in what appeared to be a botched robbery, police said. The gunman was found dead in an adjacent hotel room of an apparent suicide.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/02/manila-resort-attack-36-killed-in-blaze-set-by-rampaging-gunman.html
rero360
06-02-17, 12:24
I'll be going to the Manila area in July with my wife and her family so I can meet her grandparents and other relatives. I'm not worried about all this stuff but I will have my head on a swivel and probably get my hands on some "protection" once I get there, even if it's just a blade. But that's SOP for me traveling the world regardless.
SteyrAUG
06-02-17, 14:38
Just heard on Fox it was a robbery and he didn't shoot at anyone.

Yeah, seems the gun was jumped. Glad it wasn't another Mumbai.