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Marawi Siege; Marawi City on May 2017
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IT IS OVER!

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CLARK, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government declared the end Monday to the militant siege of a southern city that lasted five months, left more than 1,100 people dead and sparked fears of the Islamic State group gaining a foothold in Southeast Asia.

Speaking at an annual meeting of the region’s defense ministers, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told reporters that combat operations in Marawi were ending after troops recovered 42 bodies of the last group of militants.

“Those are the last group of stragglers of Mautes and they were caught in one building so there was a firefight, so they were finished,” he said. “There are no more militants inside Marawi City.”

The siege had sparked fears the Islamic State group would influence, fund and strengthen local militant groups as it was losing ground in Syria and Iraq. The defeat of the IS-linked uprising and the deaths of its leaders have been a relief to the region.

Still, the length of the siege and the difficulty the military had in stamping it out has raised questions about the preparedness of the Philippines armed forces at a time when President Rodrigo Duterte has been suggesting his country could ditch its longtime ally the United States.

The timing of the uprising was also disastrous, coming as the Philippines plays host this year to the annual summit meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, along with the 10-nation bloc’s Asian and Western counterparts, including the United States and Australia. The two governments deployed surveillance aircraft and drones to help Filipino troops rout the Marawi militants.

Lorenzana focused on the final success in his comments Monday.

“The Philippine security forces, aided by its government and the massive support of the Filipino people, have nipped the budding infrastructure and defeated terrorism in the Philippines,” Lorenzana said.

He said the achievement shows how regional cooperation can contain the spread of terrorism. “In crushing thus far the most serious attempt to export violent extremism and radicalism in the Philippines and the region, we have contributed to preventing its spread in Asia.”

Fighting terrorism is high on the agenda of the Southeast Asian defense ministers’ meeting at the Clark freeport north of Manila. As the meetings opened, the head of the Brunei delegation expressed condolences for the loss of lives in Marawi but congratulated the Philippines for being able to liberate the city.

Malaysia’s minister said the siege was a wakeup call for the region. “We have to be very careful. What happened in Marawi can happen anywhere,” Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

Hundreds of militants, many waving Islamic State group-style black flags, launched the siege on May 23 in Marawi, a bastion of Islamic faith in the south of the largely Roman Catholic Philippines, by seizing the lakeside city’s central business district and outlying communities. They ransacked banks and shops, including gun stores, looted houses and smashed statues in a Roman Catholic cathedral, according to the military.

The fighting has left at least 1,131 people dead, including 919 militants and 165 soldiers and police, and displaced hundreds of thousands of Marawi residents. At least 1,780 of the hostages seized by the militants, including a Roman Catholic priest, were rescued. The final group of 20 captives were freed over the weekend, Army Col. Romeo Brawner said at a news conference Sunday. That left the gunmen with none of the hostages they had used as human shields to slow the military advance for months.

Last week, troops killed the final two surviving leaders of the siege, including Isnilon Hapilon, who is listed among the FBI’s most-wanted terror suspects in the world, and Omarkhayam Maute. Following their deaths, Duterte traveled near the main scene of battle and declared Marawi had been essentially liberated.

DNA tests done in the United States requested by the Philippine military have confirmed the death of Hapilon, according to the U.S. Embassy in Manila. Washington has offered a bounty of up to $5 million for Hapilon, who had been blamed for kidnappings for ransom of American nationals and other terrorist attacks.

Among the foreign militants believed to be with the remaining gunmen in Marawi were Malaysian militant Amin Baco and an Indonesian known only as Qayyim. Both have plotted attacks and provided combat training to local militants for years but have eluded capture in the south.

Lorenzana said Monday the identities of the final 42 bodies had not been determined and some were beyond recognition.
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Omar Maute and Isnilon dressed as women to escape

Omar Maute at Isnilon Hapilon, nagpanggap na babae sa tangkang pagtakas

Published on Oct 16, 2017
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Kwento ng gunner na nakapatay kina Omar Maute at Isnilon Hapilon, nagsuot ng malong ang mga terorista para sana sila ay makatakas. | Kaye Imson


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How Maute and Isnilon were killed

Kwento kung paano napatay sina Isnilon Hapilon at Omar Maute, idinetalye

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Published on Oct 20, 2017

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HIGH-TECH WEAPONS SYSTEM KILLED MADI AND OMAR MAUTE

Madi Maute was trying to escape by boat but were spotted. Omar Maute was hit when he tried to cross a street in the main battle area.

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Magkapatid na Maute, napatay gamit ang high tech na armas ng militar



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DOCUMENTARY ON MARAWI

I-Witness: Sundalo sa Marawi, ibinahagi ang aktwal nilang pakikipaglaban sa mga terorista

Published on Oct 17, 2017
Isa si Codename 'Striker' sa Elite Force ng mga sundalong nakadestino sa Marawi, at sa video na ito, ibinahagi niya ang aktwal nilang pakikipaglaban sa tropa ng mga terorista sa naturang killing site sa Marawi.
Aired: August 12, 2017

Watch ‘I-Witness,’ every Saturday on GMA Network. These GMA documentaries are hosted and presented by the most trusted broadcasters in the country: Sandra Aguinaldo, Kara David, Howie Severino, Jay Taruc, and Atom Araullo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8HtFN7ZEak


I-Witness: 'Sa Pusod ng Digmaan,' dokumentaryo ni Emil Sumangil (full episode)

Published on Aug 13, 2017
Aired: August 12, 2017

Tatlong buwan na ang nakalilipas mula nang nagsimula ang kaguluhan sa Marawi, at sa kasalukuyan ay hindi matiyak kung kailan ito magwawakas. Sa espesyal na dokumentaryong ito ni Emil Sumangil, sumama siya sa tropa ng militar upang tutukan ang mga natatanging ganap sa engkwentro nila laban sa grupo ng Maute sa Marawi City.

Aired: August 12, 2017

Watch ‘I-Witness,’ every Saturday on GMA Network. These GMA documentaries are hosted and presented by the most trusted broadcasters in the country: Sandra Aguinaldo, Kara David, Howie Severino, Jay Taruc, and this week's featured reporter, Emil Sumangil.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbyN6hXoLM&t=119s


I-Witness: 'War Zone ER,' dokumentaryo ni Sandra Aguinaldo (full episode)


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Panoorin: Tactics ng military commander ibinunyag para mabawi ang Marawi City

Published on Oct 23, 2017


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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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The Malaysian terrorist, Mahmoud Ahmad has been killed as per reports
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Malaysian Terrorist na si Dr. Mahmud Ahmad, posibleng kabilang sa 13 nasawing Maute member sa Marawi

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Mahmud Ahmad dead – Duterte

AFP spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla also confirms the Malaysian terrorist who helped finance the Marawi siege was killed by troops

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Published 9:28 PM, October 19, 2017
Updated 2:11 PM, October 20, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed on Thursday, October 19, that Mahmud Ahmad, the Malaysian terrorist who helped finance the Marawi siege, was killed by the military earlier that day.

"Now the other, the one they call Doc – there are 3 of them:, Hapilon, Omar, and Doc – he is an Arab, he was taken this afternoon. And that completes the story," said Duterte during an event of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

A Malacañang official close to Duterte confirmed to Rappler that the President was referring to Mahmud.

Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla also confirmed Mahmud's death after Duterte's announcement. His body, however, has yet to be found.

The military, earlier on Thursday, said it was still verifying reports that Mahmud was killed.

Mahmud reportedly channeled at least P30 million ($600,000) to finance the attack in Marawi City, according to the military.

He was among 13 fighters the military killed in its latest assault to clear the battle area of what the government called "stragglers."

Mahmud survived the assault on Monday, October 16, that killed the siege's top leaders.

In the same Thursday speech, Duterte said martial law would remain until the last terrorist is "taken out."

"Everybody was asking, when will it stop? It will not stop until the last terrorist is taken out," said Duterte, referring to martial law he declared in Mindanao after the Marawi conflict broke out.

He did not clarify what he meant by "taken out" or the geographic scope of his remark – if "taken out" from Marawi or from the Mindanao region.

He previously said, however, that he would only lift martial law after the clearing operations in Marawi.

Duterte declared the "liberation" of Marawi from "terrorist influence" on Tuesday, October 17.

On Monday, October 16, soldiers killed the top leaders behind the siege. Abu Sayyaf subleader Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute of the family-led Maute Group were shot by government snipers as troops assaulted enemy position to rescue remaining hostages. (READ: The life of a Maute hostage in Marawi)

These terrorist leaders pledged allegiance to international terrorist network Islamic State (ISIS). – Rappler.com

https://www.rappler.com/nation/185835-duterte-confirms-mahmud-ahmad-killed


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"Ang laki ng impact nito sa Southeast Asia… I can assure that most of these yung machinery nila, saka yung kanilang command and control has been crippled, tremendously," Western Mindanao Command Chief said.

http://cnn.ph/2lnQQ4z


Southeast Asia to benefit from deaths of terrorists in Marawi — military

By David Santos, CNN Philippines
Updated 08:10 AM PHT Fri, October 27, 2017

Marawi City (CNN Philippines, October 27) — Neighboring countries like Malaysia and Indonesia will likely benefit from the death of terrorist leader Isnilon Hapilon and other foreign militants in Marawi, the military said.

"Ang laki ng impact nito sa Southeast Asia… I can assure that most of these yung machinery nila, saka yung kanilang command and control has been crippled, tremendously," Western Mindanao Command chief Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez said Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Tuesday said the government has tagged more than 60 Malaysian, Indonesian and Filipino terrorists fighting ISIS in Iraq who could attempt to slip into the Philippines.

The country conducts joint sea and air patrols with Indonesia and Malaysia to prevent the movement of militants from one country to another.

The international terrorist network ISIS gave the Maute group at least $1.5 million (around ₱77.9 million) for the Marawi siege, retired Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Gen. Eduardo Año told CNN Philippines on Wednesday.


Hapilon and the ISIS

When the army assaulted a hideout of the ISIS-inspired Maute group on October 16, they had no idea it was a strike on the group's core leaders.

The heavy fighting ended with the death of Hapilon and Omar Maute, one of the brothers who led the Maute group.

Hapilon is a former Abu Sayyaf leader and the so-called "emir" of the ISIS in Southeast Asia. He was also in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's "most wanted" terrorists list with a $5-million (around ₱259.7-million) bounty on his head.

Hapilon and Maute's deaths led President Rodrigo Duterte to declare the liberation of Marawi the following day, five months after government forces and terrorists fought for control of the city.

All seven brothers behind the Maute group are dead. They are part of 920 terrorists killed in Marawi since the siege began on May 23, prompting Duterte to declare martial law throughout Mindanao.

Galvez said ground commanders patterned their strategies after the U.S.-led military campaign to recapture ISIS-controlled Aleppo and Raqqa in Syria, and Mosul in Iraq.

Like these battle-scarred cities in the Middle East, liberating Marawi came with a price — 165 troops and 47 civilians dead, over 300,000 residents displaced, and a city left in ruins.

The military said clearing operations are still ongoing in Marawi to retrieve all cadavers.


Ruins of Marawi

Thousands of evacuees are expected to return to the war-torn city on Sunday.

Some of them opted to return home as early as Thursday, but were shocked to see their homes not just damaged, but also looted.

The local government, meanwhile, is in the process of restoring power and water supply in some barangays.

The government said rebuilding Marawi will cost more than ₱50 billion.

CNN Philippines Correspondent Rex Remitio and Digital Producer Eimor Santos contributed to this report.

http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/10/27/southeast-asia-death-terrorist-marawi.html

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Maute straggler killed by government troops in Marawi

By Rex Remitio, CNN Philippines
Updated 17:19 PM PHT Tue, October 31, 2017

Marawi City (CNN Philippines, October 31) — A Maute straggler was killed after exchanging fire with troops in the main battle area in Marawi City on Tuesday, a military official confirmed.

Joint Task Force Ranao Deputy Commander Coronel Romeo Brawner said the Maute member attempted to escape the city through a river and exchanged gunfire with the troops using his M-16 rifle.

The body is with the city's Philippine National Police's Scene of the Crime Operatives. His remains will be immediately buried in the battle area or in the Maqbara Cemetery, Brawner said.

The death of the Maute straggler comes a week after the military ended their combat operations in Marawi City.

Brawner said there could be some terrorists left in the battle zone, which is why they are still implementing strict security measures despite sending home some troops.

http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/10/31/maute-straggler-killed-marawi-city.html


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