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Marawi Siege; Marawi City on May 2017
Topic Started: Sun May 28, 2017 12:46 am (2,429 Views)
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Marawi Siege

Marawi City on May 2017


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Elite Forces have arrive: Government troops guard their positions during a firefight against members of the Maute group in Marawi City on Friday. Truckloads of military personnel arrived in Marawi on Saturday to help neutralize the Maute group, which attacked the city on Tuesday. - ABS-CBN photo

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Soldier retrieves an ISIS flag during the Marawi siege (image courtesy of the Boston Globe).


Backgrounder

Abu Sayyaf
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/topic/10231132/1/

Maute Group
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/topic/30000833/1/

ISIS
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/topic/10340497/1/

ISIS in the Philippines
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/topic/11593400/1/


The Marawi Siege is an ongoing armed conflict in Marawi, Lanao del Sur between Philippine government security forces and militants of the Maute and Abu Sayyaf Salafi jihadist groups that started on 23 May 2017.

The Philippine government claims that the clashes began when they launched an offensive in the city to capture Isnilon Hapilon of the Abu Sayyaf group, after receiving reports that Hapilon was in the city, possibly to meet with militants of the Maute group. A deadly firefight erupted when Hapilon's forces opened fire at the combined Army and police teams and called for reinforcements from the Maute, an armed group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and who are believed to be responsible for the 2016 Davao City bombing, according to military spokesmen.

Maute Group militants attacked Camp Ranao and occupied several buildings in the city, including Marawi City Hall, the Mindanao State University, a hospital and the city jail. The group also occupied the main street and set fire to Saint Mary's Church, Ninoy Aquino School, and Dansalan College run by the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP).

On May 26, 2017, the Armed Forces of the Philippines confirmed that foreign terrorists are fighting alongside the Maute group in Marawi.

The Maute group has established a stronghold in Lanao del Sur since February 2016 and is blamed for the 2016 Davao City bombing and two attacks in Butig, Lanao del Sur, a town located south of Marawi, in 2016. Since the militant group's founding in 2013, the Philippine government has downplayed the threat of ISIS in the Philippines. Following the February 2016 Butig clash with the Maute group, then-President Benigno Aquino III said the Islamic State has no presence in the country and that the militant group was only composed of mercenaries trying to make their presence felt in order for them to attract attention from ISIS supporters in the Middle East.

In November 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed the Maute's links with the Islamic State group although the Philippine military maintained that ISIS has not established links in the Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marawi_crisis


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Maute Group/ISIS enters city on Teusday, May 23.

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Smoke rises from houses following airstrikes by Philippine Air Force bombers as government forces battle to retake control of Marawi city from Muslim militants who lay siege for nearly a week Saturday, May 27, 2017 in southern Philippines. AP

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Residents watch a house that caught fire when the government troops continue to battle with Moro militants who lay siege in Marawi City. (AP)

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Residents flee three days after Muslim militants lay siege in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, on Thursday, May 25, 2017. (johnib.wordpress.com)

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armored vehicles rolled into the city - (credit to photo owners)

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A convoy of APCs head to the site to combat with Maute terror group, after the latter lay siege in Marawi city in southern Philippines Thursday, May 25, 2017. (AP)


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Day 1

Marawi City on May 23, 2017

Firefights between government forces and militants began at approximately 2:00 in the afternoon of May 23, 2017. The Peace and Conflict Journalism Network reported that the clash occurred in the Basak Malutlut area of the city as Hapilon's forces called for reinforcement from the Maute group. Maute fighters occupied the Amai Pakpak Hospital and ordered the PhilHealth employees out of the facility. The fighters allegedly replaced the Philippine flag hoisted in the hospital with the Black Standard used by the Islamic State group. A staff member of the hospital has later denied that this happened.

The 103rd Brigade of the Philippine Army stationed at Camp Ranao was attacked by at least 500 Maute group militants. A number of militants were then seen waving their ISIS black flags as they roamed the streets of Marawi.

The whole city was put on lockdown as several buildings and houses were set ablaze by members of the Maute group. Dozens of gunmen occupied the Marawi City Hall as 107 inmates escaped from the Marawi City Jail and the Malabang District Jail 39 after the Maute attacks. Power and communication lines were also shut down due to the continued hostilities. Roads leading to Marawi were blocked by both government security forces and Maute militants.

Civilians were reported to have been abducted by the Maute group, including a priest and several parishioners of the Cathedral of Our Lady Help of Christians as the group demanded that the government stop its offensive against them.

The clashes sparked a mass evacuation of the city with residents fleeing by the thousands, causing traffic congestion on the highway to Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. At least eleven civilians have been killed in the ongoing firefight, two of which the Lanao del Sur Provincial Disaster Office identified as ambulance drivers who were stopped by Maute militants while responding to an emergency call. Nine of those civilians were on board a truck when they were stopped by Maute militants at a checkpoint and shot dead with their hands tied. A police officer was also reported to have been beheaded by the militants.

VIDEO 1: Mga armadong lalaki na hinihinalang miyembro ng Maute o ISIS, lumusob sa Marawi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_AQlsSZNa0

VIDEO 2: Militar at Maute group, nagkasagupaan sa Marawi City; isang pulis, patay at 5 sundalo, sugatan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsH-DYFT7yE

VIDEO 3: Marawi City, mala-ghost town matapos magsilikas ng mga residente

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdgDkSYBxU

- 1 cop dead
- city jail raided
- hospital assaulted by ISIS to give treatment to injured comrade and left afterwards. Injured ISIS died still nonetheless.
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Day 2

Marawi City on May 24, 2017


VIDEO 1: Mga taga-Marawi, lumikas sa takot na madamay sa bakbakan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK1lwpYupjA

VIDEO 2: 9 sibilyang kristyano, pinaulanan ng bala ng mga Maute na may sariling checkpoint sa Marawi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWUrZxz3lU0

VIDEO 3: Marawi City, mala-ghost town matapos magsilikas ng mga residente

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdgDkSYBxU

- 9 civilians massacred. ISIS set up a checkpoint and stopped a truck carrying the 9 persons. They tied them up, made then lay on the ground, face down, then riddled them with bullets.
Edited by Flipzi, Sun May 28, 2017 1:40 am.
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Day 3

Marawi City on May 25, 2017

VIDEO 1: Ilang bahay sa Marawi, nasunog sa gitna ng airstrikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRt2MyrFy8

VIDEO 2: Deputy chief ng Marawi Police, patay sa pag-atake ng Maute sa presinto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=650RLYHj_Bo

VIDEO 3: Marawi City, balot pa rin ng tensyon dahil sa sagupaan ng mga pwersa ng gobyerno at Maute group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lBU2D5hw5A

- schools burned
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Day 4

Marawi City on May 26, 2017

Video 1: armored vehicles neutralizes enemy snipers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMXVm3NsiY

Video 2: complete news video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTXb9YcA-k

Video 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNPoUA3NStI

Video 4: Streamed live on May 25, 2017
Rappler brings to you updates on the ground from Marawi City, ground zero of the Maute Group's attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBTsuIbulb8

Video 5: Barangay na kinubkob ng mga Maute, nabawi na ng tropa ng gobyerno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-YL_kQd-SY


- 31 total dead from ISIS, while military and police suffered 11 in total

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Day 5

Marawi City on May 27, 2017

Video 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9OzTZo-PQ

Video 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzzI2nbVMGs

Video 3: Maute group 31 patay at 13 na Sundalo sa Tumitindi ang Sagupaan sa Marawi City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEanLi_TSw

Video 4: Maute Group at mga sundalo tumitindi ang sagupaan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f6zf-bRd6A


- ISIS wanted to plant an ISIS flag at Capitol bldg, but failed. The military said they need to do this to be able to meet the requirement set by the ISIS in order to get recognized.

- military armored vehicles and counter-snipers suppresses enemy snipers


Marawi siege, Day 4: Death toll rises to 44
By Roel Pareño (The Philippine Star) | Updated May 27, 2017 - 12:00am

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – The number of people killed in clashes between government troops and gunmen of the Islamic State-inspired Maute group increased to 44 yesterday as fighting raged for the fourth day in Marawi City.

The military said among those killed were 31 Maute terrorists, 11 soldiers and two police officers.

“So far we have 11 soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the peace loving residents of Marawi,” said Capt. Jo-Ann Petinglay, spokesperson for Western Mindanao Command.

The four days of firefight with the militants also left 39 soldiers wounded.

Brig. Gen. Rolando Joselito Bautista, commander of Joint Task Force ZamPeLan, said the militants sustained the most casualties during the fighting in Barangay Bangulo in Marawi on Thursday morning.

Bautista said 18 militants were killed during the two-hour firefight.

Troops engaged some 30 Maute militants in a firefight during clearing operations on two bridges in the area.

“We entered the Bangulo area and in the process neutralized 18 (Maute gunmen) and recovered five high-powered firearms, bringing the total of terrorists killed to 31,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesman Restituto Padilla said.

Padilla said there were foreigners in the Maute group that were killed.

Barangay Bangulo is among 12 villages in the outskirts of the city where the Maute gunmen have reportedly put up strong defensive positions.

As the fighting advanced towards the city proper on Thursday, two groups of bandits attacked Camp Ranao, headquarters of the Army’s 103rd Brigade located just outside Marawi City proper.

Another group occupied the compound of the Lanao del Sur Electric Cooperative Inc. (Lasureco) in the city.

Wimpy Fuentabella, spokesman for the Department of Energy, said an official of the Lasureco reported Thursday that a firefight broke out in the compound.

“They were able to evacuate the compound by 2 p.m. By that time, the compound was already occupied by gunmen,” Fuentabella said.

The number of fatalities from the Maute group increased on Wednesday when troops killed 13 more militants during the assault. – With Jaime Laude, Perseus Echeminada

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/05/27/1704005/marawi-siege-day-4-death-toll-rises-44
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Maute is desperate to plant flag at Lanao capitol to declare 'wilayat' but failed due to overwhelming strength of gov't forces


Maute plans to raise ISIS flags at Lanao capitol, Marawi city hall to declare 'wilayat'

Published May 27, 2017 10:43pm

A military official on Saturday said the Maute group's main objective is to raise an ISIS flag at the provincial capitol of Lanao del Sur in Marawi City and declare a "wilayat."

"Magtayo ng bandila dito sa flagpole ng kapitolyo at ng Marawi City [hall compound]," Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, commanding general of the Armed Forces' Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) said in a press conference.

Galvez said raising flags at the city hall and the capitol compounds are the only missing factors for the the Maute group to declare a "wilayat" or a provincial ISIS territory.

"Iyon na lang ang kailangan para magkaroon sila ng wilayat para magkaroon sila ng suporta galing sa Syria," the military official said.

Galvez on Saturday said that clearing operations around the city are ongoing.

"Wala pong pinipili ang mga kalaban natin. Inaakyat nila ang mga bahay," he said.

Military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said in a statement that the remaining Maute group members in the city have been holding out in homes, government buildings and several private structures.

Padilla said airstrike are also being launched in some parts of the city where Maute group members are believed to be holed up.

A report by Jiggy Manicad on GMA News' 24 Oras on Saturday said that troops have resorted to door-to-door inspections to clear the city of Maute group members.

A separate report by Jun Veneracion said that the government has also deployed snipers to counter the snipers of the Maute group hiding in buldings in the besieged city.

The Maute group, reportedly reinforced by members of the Abu Sayyaf group and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, launch attacks in Marawi City on Tuesday, killing several civilians and setting fire on a Catholic church, schools and the city jail.

The attack has prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to place the entire Mindanao under martial law.

Lanao del Sur Vice Governor Mamintal Adiong said that all city residents want to leave.

"Lahat gusto nang umalis sa Marawi City," Adiong said.

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao executive secretary Laisa Alamia told radio dzBB earlier that 90 percent of the city's total population of 201,700 have already left.

She said more than 1,000 residents were still inside the city as of Saturday morning. —ALG, GMA News

- See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/612374/maute-plans-to-raise-isis-flags-at-lanao-capitol-marawi-city-hall-to-declare-wilayat/story/?just_in#sthash.tHKv044C.dpuf

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Some of the military assets used in this battle

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AW-109 Light Attack Helicopter

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MD-520MG Light Attack Helicopter

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OV-10 Bronco light bomber plane

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Simba armored personnel carrier (APC)

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V150 Commando APC


Some of the other assets

1. M113 APC
2. SF-260 surface attack aircraft
3. UH-1 helicopter gunship/transport
4. C-130 heavy lift aircraft
5. KM450 Light Cargo Military Truck
6. trucks
7. V300 6-wheeled armored vehicle (some with 90-mm canon and some with 50-cal plus 30 cal. MG)

8. P3 Orion (recon) provided by Australia
9. UAVs
10. C130 transport plane
11. C295 transport plane
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Malaysian is next in line for IS-inspired terrorists in Mindanao

The Star/Asia News Network / 03:53 PM May 27, 2017

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KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia—Malaysian lecturer-turned-militant Dr. Mahmud Ahmad could soon be the leader of the Islamic State’s (IS) offshoot in Marawi City.
He is believed to be holed up in the city where the army is battling the Maute group, which has seen 44 people, including two Malaysians, killed.

Dr. Mahmud has been identified as the next man to create a bastion of IS in South-East Asia, now under the command of Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon.

Isnilon was declared as the Emir of the IS forces in the Philippines early last year but he was reportedly badly injured in an aerial attack on Basilan about two months ago.

Dr. Mahmud led fellow militants to rescue Isnilon in the Marawi attack, said sources, adding that they believe he is also trying to fill the vacuum in leadership of the caliphate if Isnilon is confirmed dead.
They said IS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is desperately trying to find a new leader in the South-East Asia faction that was once headed by Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, who was killed in a drone attack in Raqqa, Syria.

The sources said Dr. Mahmud, also known as Abu Handzalah, is now the only trusted lieutenant linked to Baghdadi besides the injured Isnilon in southern Philippines.

They said there were number of foreigners – Malaysians, Singaporeans and Indonesians – in the Maute group comprising mostly Filipino Christians who converted to Islam.

Intelligence sources said Dr. Mahmud’s plan was to form an official IS faction in South-East Asia by uniting different terror cells in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

According to the sources, they could not estimate the number of Malaysians in the area but believe many foreigners are with the militant groups, including Abu Sayyaf in Mindanao and Basilan.

Philippine officials have yet to disclose the names of the militants killed in Marawi City where intense battles are continuing with the Philippines military trying to recapture parts of the city held by the militants since Tuesday.

The sources had identified the two dead Malaysians as Ustaz Abdurahman Asmawi from Kelantan and Dr. Kamsa Yahya from Kedah. It could not be immediately established if the two were involved with the militant group or were visiting the city.

Among others killed were an Indonesian and a Saudi Arabian, the sources said, adding that nine were Filipinos.

Dr. Mahmud, who trained at an Al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan under Osama bin Laden while studying at Pakistan’s Islamabad Islamic University in the late 1990s, had returned to Malaysia to lecture at Universiti Malaya.

After being exposed as an extremist militant by Bukit Aman in 2014, he fled to the Philippines. He was identified as the terror group’s chief recruiter and was responsible for training and sending militants to fight in Syria and Iraq.

Dr. Mahmud was among five Malaysians who fled the country. The others were Dr. Mahmud’s close aide Mohd Najib Husen (who has been killed in the Philippines), Selayang Municipal Council employee Muhammad Joraimee Awang Raimee and Darul Islam Sabah members Mohd Amin Baco and Jeknal Adil.

They have worked with other militant groups including Abu Sayyaf in various attacks and criminal activities in southern Philippines.

Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter Ter­rorism Division head Deputy Comm Datuk Ayob Khan said Dr. Mahmud was known to be embedded with the Abu Sayyaf group.

“However, we are still trying to gather enough intelligence to uncover Malaysian militants involved over there (Mindanao),” he said yesterday.

On the possibility that Dr. Mahmud might become the leader of the IS cell in southern Philippines, DCP Ayob said he suspected that was Dr. Mahmud’s ultimate goal.

Read more: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/157409/malaysian-next-line-inspired-terrorists-mindanao#ixzz4iMxqFJjl
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Drugs, ISIS and Pintakasi helped Maute in taking siege of Marawi


Pals, kin, ISIS, PH narco-politicians helping Maute, Hapilon survive gov’t offensive – AFP, DND chiefs
By InterAksyon | Ghem Avancena, News5
Published: May 26, 2017, 7:28 PM ( Updated: May 26, 2017, 7:40 PM )

Why have members of the Maute Group in Marawi City become a formidable opponent of government forces?

It’s because they have friends, relatives, and supporters, who allegedly include private armed groups of narco-politicians in Lanao del Sur and ISIS foreign fighters said to be providing resources to Maute and Isnilon Hapilon, the country’s most wanted terror leader and is said to be the Islamic State’s emir in Southeast Asia.

This was according to the heads of the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), who on Friday, during a press conference in Davao City, disclosed how and why Maute members and Hapilon had continued to survive from government offensives, three days since President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao.

Clashes between government forces and the Maute group and their supporters since last Tuesday have resulted in the death of 44 people — 31 from Maute, including six individuals believed to be foreigners, and 13 from the government side composed of 11 soldiers and two policemen.

“I think they have sympathizers, relatives, and friends,” said AFP chief and martial law implementor Eduardo Año, adding that government troops were still pursuing less than 100 Maute members, including Hapilon, whose health condition “has deteriorated” after he was seriously wounded during a military airstrike in Butig, Lanao del Sur last January.

“Sa ngayon may presence pa rin ng armed group around Marawi City at we learned that aside from Maute, may private armed group na naki-sympathize [The armed group still has presence now around Marawi City and we learned that aside from maute, there are also private armed group sympathizers],” said Año.

The AFP chief said the government “is in control” of the Lanao del Sur capital but Marawi “is not (yet) cleared” of Maute members.

“We have enough troops, kailangan pa ng additional enforcement para mas mabilis ang pagclear [we need additional enforcement for the clearing to become faster,” said Año.

DND chief Delfin Lorenzana told reporters that government troops were surprised when they attacked a Marawi hideout for Hapilon earlier this week and found out that the terror leader was being shielded by many weapon-carrying neighbors and private armed groups, whom he said were believed to be the armed goons of local politicians, and some ISIS warriors.

“What happened to Marawi, (was a) tipping point. It’s rebellion. Isis people, sumali na ‘yong mga armed goons ng narco-politicians,” said Lorenzana.

“Nagulat ‘yong tropa natin. No’ng gusto nilang hulihin si Hapilon, no’ng lapitan, lumaban. ‘Yo’ng mga bahay bahay sa paligid may mga armado rin pala. Kaya dumami na,” the DND chief said.

“So we believe, ‘yong mga private armed group, sumali na sila,” he added.

Last Wednesday, a day after he declared martial law in Mindanao, Duterte hinted that some Lanao del Sur politicians might have a hand in Maute’s terror attack in Marawi.

“I will say that I am not surprised when Lanao del Sur is also maybe in cahoots or cooperating,” the President said.

Lorenza on Friday said it was possible that the Islamic State had sent some of its representatives in the country and transferred huge funds to Hapilon so the ISIS would be able to establish an Islamic State province in Southern Philippines.

“I think they sent here a couple of foreigners. They transferred funds to Hapilon, million dollars. He’s (Hapilon) trying to prove his worth, raise the flag and put it in social media that they already have an area here in Mindanao.”

On Friday, both Lorenza and Solicitor General Jose Calida confirmed that Hapilon was the ISIS-designated leader in the Philippines.

http://www.interaksyon.com/pals-kin-supporters-from-isis-and-ph-narco-politicians-helping-maute-hapilon-survive-govt-offensive-afp-dnd-chiefs/
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