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Pentagon: Counter-Extremist Efforts Have Hardly Eroded IS in Philippines
[BenarNews] Efforts to combat militancy in the Philippines seem to have made no substantial dent against Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -linked groups since the United States launched a multi-million-dollar program in 2017 to back Manila’s counter-extremist activities, the Pentagon said in a new report. The regional branch of Islamic State and associated turban groups in the southern Mindanao region remain about the same in size and in strength, the report said. And in recent months, the Philippine IS affiliate tried to take advantage of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) Posted by: trailing wife 2020-08-16 |
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