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| Leading imam to head police in troubled Philippine city | |
| 2017-07-27 | |
| [AA.TR] A leading Moslem figure has been appointed to head the police in Marawi City, where pro-ISIS murderous Moslems have been fighting for two months. Ebra Moxsir al-Haj, president of the Imam Council of the Philippines, assumed his role on Monday, Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, the police chief for the Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao, said in a statement. Moxsir, a native of the city, has been a member of the Philippine National Police Chaplain Service for 22 years, GMA News reported.
The new police chief would be key to bringing peace to the city, the statement added. Fighters from the Maute group and 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... attacked Marawi City on May 23, prompting President Rodrigo Duterte to impose martial law across the southern island of Mindanao. Pockets of murderous Moslems are still holding out in a battle that has seen 453 bad boys, 109 government troops and 45 civilians killed. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The only one that would take the job was the Chaplain? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-07-27 14:39 |