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ISIS appoints new leader in southeast Asia following defeat in Marawi City
[ALMASDARNEWS] According to the national police chief, ISIS has appointed Amin Baco as the new Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... emir in southeast Asia following the death of Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute, leaders of two local ISIS-inspired branches, on October 16. Amin Baco is of Malaysian nationality and pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2015. He is believed to have escaped the battle of Marawi, fleeing to the countryside of Mindanao Island instead. On October 23, the Philippine Army proclaimed full control of Marawi city after taking out the remaining ISIS garrison, exactly five months to the date since the jihadist uprising began. Aside from Baco, the Philippine military is also on the lookout for Abdulla Hapilon, the son of killed Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... (ISIS franchise group) leader Isnilon Hapilon. "I gave the direction to our ground commanders that once we we get Amin Baco and Hapilon, we have broken the chain of command for ISIS in Mindanao," Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez said on Monday. No official statement has been provided by ISIS on Amin Baco’s alleged promotion. Posted by: Fred 2017-11-07 |
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