[GULFTODAY.AE] At least 10 members 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... terror group were killed while 32 soldiers were maimed, including an Army battalion commander and a junior officer, in a clash on the island province of Sulu in restive Mindanao, the military confirmed on Tuesday.
Major General Carlito Galvez, the chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) identified the maimed officers as Lieutenant Colonel William George Cordova, the head of the Army’s 41st Infantry Batttalion and First Lieutenant Joe Mari Landicho.
Galvez said the two officers were among the 32 soldiers maimed in an hour-long heavy fighting clash with about 80 Abu Sayyaf murderous Moslems in a mountain village in the town of Talipao, Sulu on Sunday morning.
He added Cordova and Landicho suffered minor wounds but one of the soldiers was at death's door with a bullet wound in the head and was immediately airlifted to the military hospital at the Westmincom headquarters in Zamboanga City.
Cordova headed a military team immediately dispatched to the mountain village in Talipao after receiving a tip from concerned residents that about 80 murderous Moslems were in the area along with their Filipino and foreign hostages including Indonesian and Vietnamese sailors, according to Galvez.
"The Abu Sayyaf enjoyed the advantage of being on higher ground as they fired MO3 grenade launchers at the approaching soldiers," Galvez said but added the soldiers countered by using 105mm howitzers until the bandidosgunnies withdrew. He also vowed they would continue their intensified "search and destroy" operations until they have rescued the estimated 30 Filipinos and foreigners still being held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf.
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[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] While President Rodrigo Duterte said that top 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... leader may have been killed in Arclight airstrikes two to three months ago, the military has yet to confirm this.
"There are raw reports but we still have no confirmation that Hapilon is really dead," Armed Forces chief Gen. Eduardo Año said on Tuesday.
In his speech at an event of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines on Monday, Duterte said Hapilon has not been heard of since the Arclight airstrikes last January though he is not discounting the possibility that he may still be alive.
Hapilon, a big shot of the Abu Sayyaf wanted for kidnappings in Mindanao, is reportedly the recognized leader of the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the Philippines. Last January, Defense Secretary Lorenzana said that they have received reports that Hapilon is establishing a wilayat or province in Central Mindanao.
Año said their last information about Hapilon was he was being carried by four Abu Sayyaf members transferring from one temporary base to another in the hinterlands of Butig.
Operations against his group still continue in Lanao and Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... , he also said. IDL
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Huzzah! Isnilon Hapilon might be dead!
Jess cain't pernounce 'is name as read.
So what, we say!
Tis a bright new day!
Isnilon Hapilon is maybe dead!
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