[AsiaOne] A 33-year-old Singaporean Daesh supporter was arrested in August, the Ministry of Home Affairs said yesterday. Asrul Alias, a technician, has been placed under a two-year Restriction Order which curtails his movements and activities. The ministry said in a statement that he will undergo religious counseling while under restriction.
The ministry also said Asrul began reading online material about the conflict in Syria in 2014 and started viewing online sermons by radical clerics and videos of Daesh fighters in combat. He shared pro-Daesh propaganda on social media and also spoke up against criticisms of Daesh that he encountered online.
Asrul stopped posting pro-Daesh materialafter being warned by a family member and a friend last year and early this year. But he remained supportive of Daesh and continued to view its propaganda online.
In its statement, the ministry also announced that Singaporean Mohammad Razif Yahya, 28, was released conditionally from detention after it was assessed that he no longer posed a security threat that required him to be detained. He had been apprehended in August last year for voluntarily fighting Houthis in Yemen in January 2010.
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[PhilStar] The Abu Sayyaf has split into smaller factions to focus on mobile tactics after being chased out of a base in Basilan.
Colonel Cirilo Donato said the 200-man Abu Sayyaf group that used to occupy a camp in Barangay Baguindan as a base of operations against Tipo-Tipo town, fled last month because of the military operations. He said the Abu Sayyaf group led by Isnilon Hapilon suffered nearly 50 killed and several injured during its occupation last month.
Hapilon and his group are known to have pledged allegiance to Daesh and vowed to establish a caliphate in Basilan.
Donato said that Hapilon's group stopped villagers from traveling to their farms. Residents were only allowed to go if they agreed to join the Abu Sayyaf. Residents reported the harassment, which triggered the offensive against the rebels.
Donato said about 100 Abu Sayyaf insurgents are thought to be hiding in the jungle of Sumisip near Sampinit Complex.
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[Business World Online] Philippine defense secretary Lorenza presented on Friday three terror suspects in connection with the September 2 bombing of the Davao City night market. The suspects were arrested by security forces on Tuesday at a checkpoint in Cotabato City.
The suspects are TJ Tagadaya P. Macabalang (also known as Abutufail or Triggerman), Wendel A. Facturan (a.k.a. Muhaimin or Bomb Courier), and Musali U. Mustapha (a.k.a. Abu Hurayrah or Documenter), and they are said to be members of what is called the Maute Group.
An initial investigation found that Macabalang detonated the bomb that was placed in position by Facturan where Mustapha "documented" the blast and the people's reaction with his mobile phone. Two videos were presented to the media. The first video was the incident as recorded, and the second showed Facturan, holding a rifle before a Daesh flag.
Lt. General Eduardo Ano said, "There are indications that the Maute Group is trying to align themselves with ISIS as seen in the recorded video. We have also established their link with the Abu Sayyaf as they revealed their intention to disrupt he government's massive military operations in Sulu.
Secretary Lorenza said, "The Maute group's plan to bomb Davao City was conceived more or less two weeks before the actual incident. Accordingly, the plan was conceptualized to disrupt and divert the government’s massive military operations in Sulu that started in July 2016 and in Central Mindanao that started in August 2016.
"Moreover, the attack was conducted in retaliation for the heavy casualties suffered by the terror group in Butig, Lanao del Sur. The operations in August 2016 also resulted in the capture of eight Maute members in a checkpoint on August 22. The arrested members later bolted out of prison on August 27."
A follow-up operation led to the arrest of Macabalang's father, Teng Macabalang, who had both high-powered and short firearms, ammunitions, and IED materials.
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[Benar News] Troop levels in Thailand's far South are at their lowest level since peak deployment nine years ago. The gradual draw-down has been accompanied by the shifting of security responsibility to local armed militias. Current troop strength in the southern border area is just over 20,000, a bit more than half the number of military personnel posted there in 2007, according to a military spokesman.
According to Colonel Pramote Prom-in virtually all troops from the nations north, northeast and central regional commands have already left the far South. He said only three battalions of non-local troops remain in the Muslim-majority region.
Pramote said the downsizing is balanced by the use of local armed units such as the Volunteer Defense Corps (Ar Sar - VDC) and the village defense volunteers (Chor Ror Bor - VDV.
The total security presence, including those groups and police, is around 50,000, in an area of 1.7 million residents, 80 percent of whom are Malay-speaking Muslims. Pramote said that about 40% of the remaining 20,000-plus soldiers are Rangers, a significant number of whom are local Malay Muslims. These paramilitary forces are not part of the regular armed forces but are locally recruited and trained by the Thai Army.
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[AsiaOne] A 33-year-old Singaporean Daesh supporter was arrested in August, the Ministry of Home Affairs said yesterday. Asrul Alias, a technician, has been placed under a two-year Restriction Order which curtails his movements and activities. The ministry said in a statement that he will undergo religious counseling while under restriction.
[PhilStar] The Abu Sayyaf has split into smaller factions to focus on mobile tactics after being chased out of a base in Basilan.
[Business World Online] Philippine defense secretary Lorenza presented on Friday three terror suspects in connection with the September 2 bombing of the Davao City night market. The suspects were arrested by security forces on Tuesday at a checkpoint in Cotabato City.
[Benar News] Troop levels in Thailand's far South are at their lowest level since peak deployment nine years ago. The gradual draw-down has been accompanied by the shifting of security responsibility to local armed militias. Current troop strength in the southern border area is just over 20,000, a bit more than half the number of military personnel posted there in 2007, according to a military spokesman.
