[Telegraph] Gunfire and explosions have been reported and images are surfacing of wounded people fleeing the Resorts World Manila in Pasay City, Philippines. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack in metropolitan Manila. The hotel has confirmed that it is on lockdown.
Gunfire was reported around midnight local time. Reports said that police, fire trucks and a SWAT team were on the scene at 1:30am, and videos have emerged of wounded people being led into ambulances.
Resorts World Manila is a popular spot for tourists and locals, and it describes itself as a lifestyle destination where people can enjoy world-class entertainment. It has different restaurants and bars, and hosts a diverse array of events, including gambling, high tea and Catholic Mass.
Update 6:41PM UTC: Reports have surfaced that a Philippine ISIS operative from Marawi says "lone wolf soldiers of Khilafah" are behind the attack.
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"Lone wolf soldiers". Typical fool doesn't get the concept. Kill them all
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President Trump started his discussion of the current financial situation -- including America stepping away from the Paris treaty at this time, though he is open to renegotiating the thing in the future -- by saying that our thoughts and prayers are with those who were attacked in the Philippines today. Terror is clearly one of his issues.
[RT] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte insists he will not talk with the forces of Evil fighting his country’s military and occupying parts of a city in its south, saying he is determined to drive 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.... (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) off the islands.
"I will not talk to the terrorists," Duterte said during a speech he gave to the military in Davao City on Wednesday, as quoted by Rooters.
The statement represents a turn-around for Duterte, who urged the Maute rebels to speak with him just last week.
A total of 129 people ‐ 89 holy warriors, 19 civilians, and 21 government soldiers ‐ have been killed in the Philippines’ southern city of Marawi since IS-linked Maute rebels took control of parts of it last week, military front man Brigadier General Restituto Padilla told AP.
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Unlike 0bumhole. Who takes an enemy who is on the ropes and gives him money and a framework to develop nukes to use against us.
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I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell! - WTS
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From Wiki According to a 2015 report of Philippine Statistics Authority, 5.6% of Filipinos are Muslims. Most Filipinos are Roman Catholic. Duterte just might be able to drive ISIS from the islands. 89 holy warriors is a start.
[AFP] Philippine troops have killed 89 Islamist rebels during more than a week of urban clashes but a final showdown is expected to be ferocious as the gunmen protect their leaders and hold hostages.
On Wednesday morning, attack helicopters fired rockets into parts of Marawi that were still controlled by the militants fighting under the black flag of the Islamic State.
Military spokesman Restituto Padilla said 89 rebels have been killed in the fighting and the amount of territory in the city that the remaining gunmen control has been cut to just 10 percent. However he warned of more intense clashes ahead, with the military believing three of the rebels' top leaders were likely still in the city.
Padilla said, "That 10% is most likely the area that is heavily guarded and defended by any armed men if they are protecting any individual of high value."
The rebels are holding an unknown number of civilians hostage. They initially took a priest and up to 14 other people captive at the beginning of the crisis. A video of the priest appeared on social media on Tuesday, in which he repeated the rebels' demands to withdraw and said his captors were holding 240 people hostage.
Padilla said the release of the footage showed the rebels were becoming increasingly desperate and said security forces would not back down. He said, "They are trapped, they are contained, they are in areas that they will never come up alive unless they surrender."
Another major complication is the safety of about 2,000 residents who the local government said remained trapped in the rebel-controlled areas.
Laundrywoman Jenita Abanilla arrived exhausted and famished at an evacuation center in Marawi on Wednesday afternoon after heavily armed police rescued her on Wednesday. She said, "We covered the mouths of our children. We were afraid the gunmen would come in and kill us," adding that she also feared being hit by bombs.
Padilla said the rebels had killed 19 civilians but insisted that military airstrikes had not killed any of the trapped residents. Twenty-one members of the security forces had also died, Padilla said, bringing the combined death toll to 129.
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If they don't kill these guys now, way more innocents will lose their lives than the 14 who are hostages. Hopefully Duterte will do to the fighters bodies what Pershing is said to have done. And televise it.
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[AFP] Philippine troops have killed 89 Islamist rebels during more than a week of urban clashes but a final showdown is expected to be ferocious as the gunmen protect their leaders and hold hostages.
