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| Marawi Siege; Marawi City on May 2017 | |
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| Flipzi | Wed Nov 1, 2017 12:27 pm Post #191 |
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Hapilon stayed in Marawi apartment 3 months before fighting broke out By: Jeoffrey Maitem - @inquirerdotnetInquirer Mindanao / 04:28 PM October 31, 2017 MARAWI CITY – The military continues its investigation of three owners of a three-storey, four-unit apartment building in Barangay Malutlut, where Hapilon stayed for three months before fighting broke out here on May 23. “The investigation will be handled by the police. But we will ensure their rights will not be violated,” Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., deputy commander of Joint Task Group Ranao, said. Supt. Ebra Moxir, the city police chief, said the apartment owners, whom he refused to identify, already showed up to clear their names. “They told our investigators they had no idea Hapilon was there,” Moxir said. “I advised them to also clear their names with the military.” Police said the apartment building is owned by a Bureau of Internal Revenue employee assigned in Cotabato City. A member of the Special Action Force (SAF), who refused to be identified, told the Inquirer that he was staying just two houses away from the apartment, but he did not know Hapilon was a resident of their village. “I really didn’t have an idea that he was near,” he said, adding that when fighting erupted he was trapped for two days before he was able to get out of the city. Amenola Gandaw, a village councilman, told the Inquirer that Hapilon’s wife and six-year-old son were the first casualties when the fighting erupted. The clashes flared up when military troops and police officers moved to arrest Hapilon. They were met by a big force of gunmen composed of members of the Maute and Abu Sayyaf groups, backed by an undetermined number of foreign fighters. Gandaw said before the war, they noticed “a lot of people were coming in and out in those two units.” “But we had no idea that he [Hapilon] was there,” Gandaw said. /atm Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/941884/marawi-siege-isnilon-hapilon-afp-probe-apartment-owners#ixzz4x9Pl0ssF Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook |
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| Flipzi | Thu Nov 2, 2017 12:43 pm Post #192 |
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Captured Indonesian ISIS fighter claims that there are 39 strugglers left in Marawi When accosted by villagers, he claimed he's an intelligence agent of the military but the villagers did not believe him. He was brought to the military instead. He later admitted that he is Muhammad Ilham Syahputra whom the military had been tracking down. VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYAVjJcHPDg |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Fri Nov 3, 2017 12:04 pm Post #193 |
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ISNILON'S RIGTH HAND MAN HAS BEEN KILLED 2 Maute stragglers, including Hapilon’s alleged right-hand man, killed in Marawi Published November 2, 2017 1:20pm By AMITA LEGASPI, GMA News Two Maute group members, one of them the alleged right-hand man of slain Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, were killed as government troops continue to pursue the group's remnants in Marawi City, a military official said Thursday. Two soldiers were also wounded in the encounter that took place inside the main battle area in Marawi City on Wednesday evening, according to Colonel Romeo Brawner Jr., deputy commander of Joint Task Force Ranao. Brawner said one of the slain stragglers was Abu Talja, the alleged right-hand man of Hapilon, the designated ISIS emir in the Philippines. He said the troops were able to recover the bodies of the two terrorists which are now being processed by the Philippine National Police-Scene of the Crime Operatives. “This may be attributed to the close coordination of the civil authorities and the military and police forces on the ground,” he said of the military's latest accomplishment. Brawner said the deaths of the two significantly reduced the ability of the remaining members of the Maute group to cause further harm and derail the ongoing return of the internally displaced persons to Marawi City. He added normalization and rehabilitation efforts in war-torn city continue despite the ongoing clearing operations in the main battle area. —KBK, GMA News http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/631683/2-maute-stragglers-including-hapilon-s-alleged-right-hand-man-killed-in-marawi/story/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7w72QKRsao Kanang kamay ni Isnilon Hapilon at isa pang terorista, patay sa engkwentro sa Marawi City |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:14 am Post #194 |
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LAST ISIS STRUGGLERS INMARAWI HAVE BEEN NEUTRALIZED November 10, 2017 ![]() "Kahapon, November 9, nakuha na rin at last ang final, final building na last stand ng mga ISIS sa Marawi. Nung umalis ang karamihan ng Scout Rangers at ibang tropa, nagpaiwan pa ang First Scout Ranger Battalion at Scout Ranger Class 202 para linisin pa ang naiwan na ISIS stragglers. Dito sa Building 1010, na kung saan pakape kape ang ating Da Finishers, dito sana tatakbo si Isnilon Hapilon at Omar Maute bago sila na boom kunana. 50 meters mula dito sila tumumba. Pero nandito rin nagtagal ang laban dahil sa basement nito nag hold the line ang mga natirang ISIS. Sa loob ng 45 days, pinatakan ng pinatakan ng bomba ng FA50. Ito nga daw ang most expensive target sa dami ng bomba na ibinagsak. Dahil sa fighting spirit ng mga Rangers, pinagtiyagaan nilang kunin ito at dito nga sa building na ito naitumba din ang right hand man ni Hapilon. Natapos din at truly mission accomplished na. And to celebrate the deed, pakape nga ng Kopiko." https://www.facebook.com/scoutrangerbooks/photos/a.1490329231202876.1073741826.1413192625583204/2021057664796694/?type=3&theater |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Sun Nov 12, 2017 2:41 pm Post #195 |
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Philippine troops credit US intel, training for helping them beat ISIS in Marawi By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: November 9, 2017 MARAWI, Philippines — Filipino troops guarding the ruins of a city freed from Islamic militants last month said American training and intelligence gave them an edge against the 1,000 insurgents who fought to nearly the last man. The Marawi battle zone — encompassing about half of a town once home to 200,000 mostly Muslim residents — is Southeast Asia’s version of Mosul, Raqqa or any other Middle Eastern city reduced to rubble by the Islamic State group’s bloody reign of terror. After five months of fighting, the Philippine government declared victory in Marawi; however, it might be years before life there returns to normal. On Wednesday, houses and shops in the battle zone were pockmarked with bullet holes and blackened by fire. Streets were full of rubble, the rusting wrecks of damaged vehicles and the bones of the dead. Soldiers said they pulled 23 cadavers from the zone earlier in the week. Standing beside a downtown bridge across the Agus River that 13 Philippine Marines gave their lives to secure, Capt. Alex Estabaya said skills learned from American Green Berets were invaluable during the fight. The Philippine Scout Rangers are experts in jungle warfare; however, U.S. Special Forces, including veterans of urban combat in Iraq, taught them close-quarters battle tactics during annual training exercises, said the 37-year-old 1st Scout Ranger Regiment officer. “They had experience in Iraq. They showed us how to clear rooms and the basic principles of close-quarters combat — things like entering with a small number of personnel and operating in small teams,” he said. Green Berets taught the Scout Rangers to exploit sensitive sites, a skill that helped them gather intelligence in Marawi, Estabaya added. “We found documents in some of the buildings,” he said. “We would cordon the areas and then exploit them and get all the available materials.” Col. Romeo Brawner, 49, deputy commander of the task force that liberated Marawi, said Americans also trained their army’s only urban combat unit — the Light Reconnaissance Regiment — comprising about 700 troops involved in the Marawi fight. The Green Berets didn’t provide the Scout Rangers with counter-improvised explosive device training; however, they did teach other Filipino troops how to deal with booby traps and roadside bombs, Estabaya said. Soldiers encountered 1,500 IEDs in the city, Brawner said. Insurgents detonated the bombs — made from conventional ordnance or fireworks and placed in alleys, doorways and windows — using pressure plates, cellphones or command wires. American intelligence support was key to success against the militants who were targeted by 105mm and 155mm artillery and 500-pound bombs dropped by the Philippine Air Force’s FA-50 Fighting Eagle jets, soldiers said. U.S. and Australian P-3 Orion surveillance planes and U.S. drones flew over Marawi during the battle capturing images of the enemy. America has night-surveillance capabilities that the Philippines lacks. U.S. personnel fed information to Philippine intelligence officers who passed it to ground troops, Brawner said. “Their [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] complemented ours,” he said of the Americans. “They gave us not only the positions of the enemy but they tracked them using heat signatures. That was very useful,” Estabaya said. “They would say things like, ‘There are two enemy in this building at this time.’” The Scout Rangers developed their own tactic during the battle. “We call it the four Fs: fire, forward, fortify and fire again,” Estabaya said. He demonstrated how the troops captured a neighborhood near the river by firing to suppress the enemy, advancing to a bomb-damaged building, taking cover behind a wall and firing into rooms to detonate IEDs. Philippine soldiers had heard about tunnels the insurgents dug under Iraqi cities. They didn’t find tunnels in Marawi, but the Southeast Asian rebels replicated the Iraqi tactic of blasting holes in walls to allow them to move inside buildings fortified with sandbags, he said. Like the Iraqis, the Marawi militants employed small surveillance drones. Government troops shot down seven during the battle, Brawner said. Capt. Ramse Dugan, 29, an operations officer with the Rangers, said the most intense part of the battle was the effort to kill the insurgent leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute, who attempted to flee near the end of the fight. Both were shot dead on the battlefield last month. “It was a concerted effort by four battalions,” he said. “Our troops were very alert, and we prevented them from escaping.” One hundred and sixty-five Philippine troops were killed in action and another 1,800 were wounded in the country’s bloodiest battle since World War II. Of the estimated 1,000 insurgents, 965 were killed and three were captured, Brawner said. The faces of the few not accounted for appear on wanted posters at checkpoints surrounding Marawi. Officials have identified the remains of about 40 foreign fighters from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. They’re working to identify several, apparently Arab, bodies found on the battlefield, Brawner said. Philippine forces rescued 1,700 civilians from the battle zone, but the militants shot 47 in the early days of the crisis and forced others to fight on their side, he said. Marawi’s damaged neighborhoods will take years to rebuild, said Brawner, who recently returned from a course at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. Some parts of the city are only lightly damaged. Residents have already returned to nine neighborhoods and will be allowed to return to two more over the next couple of weeks. However, those who lived in the battle zone won’t be going home any time soon, Brawner said. One of the evacuees, Soraida Abah, 25, is living in a tent with her husband and 3-year-old son at a camp near Marawi. The displaced Muslims were guarded by Philippine soldiers and in good spirits. “We want to go home but our home is broken,” Abah said. robson.seth@stripes.com Twitter: @SethRobson1 https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/philippine-troops-credit-us-intel-training-for-helping-them-beat-isis-in-marawi-1.496965?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+starsandstripes%2Fgeneral+%28Stars+and+Stripes%29 |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Sat Dec 2, 2017 8:44 am Post #196 |
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Steven Seagal Praises Philippine President Duterte and Armed Forces of the Philippines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja9j7oKc2z8 |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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