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| Two Philippine Soldiers Killed in Al Qaida-Linked Clash |
| 2015-04-11 |
| [AnNahar] Philippine soldiers clashed with about 200 fighters of a Al-Qaeda-linked krazed killer group on Thursday, leaving two soldiers and six guerrillas dead, a military spokeswoman said. The soldiers were on patrol in the strife-torn island of Jolo when they encountered fighters of the 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... group, army spokeswoman Captain Rowena Muyuela said. "The firefight lasted for two hours resulting in a big number of casualties to the bandidos," she told news hounds. Ten Abu Sayyaf fighters and 15 soldiers were also maimed in the encounter before the forces of Evil fled, she added. The Abu Sayyaf, set up with seed funds from Al-Qaeda in the early 1990s, has been blamed for many of the deadliest krazed killer attacks in the Philippines, including the 2004 Molotov cocktailing of a ferry on Manila Bay that claimed more than 100 lives. A key leader of the group posted video footage of himself and other gunnies last year pledging allegiance to 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.... fighters in Syria and Iraq. The government has recently mounted major operations against Moslem bad boy groups in different parts of the southern Philippines. A raid by police commandos in January killed Malaysian Zulkifli Abdhir, who is listed on the FBI's list of "Most Wanted Terrorists". Forty-four police commandos were also killed in the operation, embarrassing President Benigno Aquino's government and casting a shadow on his efforts to forge a peace accord with other mainstream Moslem rebels. A massive operation from February to March against another Moslem gang, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF), killed 140 krazed killers, the military said. Six soldiers also died. The BIFF is opposed to the peace talks and its leaders have also pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement. The largely-Christian Philippines has been struggling for years with various Moslem gangs seeking independence in the south which they consider their ancestral homeland. |
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