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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Delta Air Lines flight upside-down after crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport

2025-02-18

[NYPOST] Three passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight including a child were critically injured when the plane crash-landed and flipped upside-down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.

Flight records identify the craft as Delta Flight 4819, which took off from Minneapolis about 11:47 a.m. The crash happened just before 3 p.m. Images show the mangled airliner smoldering on the snowy runway as dazed passengers scrambled out.

The belly-up jet looked badly damaged in photos and video circulating on social media, with one wing severely crumpled and the tail section partially sheared off.

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Africa Subsaharan

Claims Ten Civilians Killed, Over 200 Houses Burned In Series of Attacks Against Christian Villages In Northern Mozambique

2024-01-24

[MEMRI.ORG] The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM).

Issue 425 of the Islamic State's (ISIS) weekly Al-Naba', published on January 12, 2024, contained a one-page article detailing the group's operations against Christian civilians in Mozambique over the past two weeks. According to the article, ISIS operatives killed 10 Christians and burned over 200 houses in eight operations centered on Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province. All the operations were conducted as part of the "And Kill Them Wherever You Find Them" campaign, launched on January 4 in an audio message by the group's spokesperson, Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari. This report is based on the article.

SIX CIVILIANS KILLED, OVER 170 HOUSES BURNED IN MOCIMBOA DA PRAIA DISTRICT
On January 3, ISIS operatives assaulted the village of Ntotoe near Mocimboa da Praia, killing three civilians and burning a church and over 60 houses, before returning to their positions unharmed. On January 7, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) published five photos documenting the attack, showing corpses and property in flames.

On January 5, ISIS operatives attacked the village of Chimbanga in the Mocimboa da Praia district, killing three civilians and burning over 70 houses and three motorcycles.

On January 7, ISIS operatives machine-gunned civilians in a village in the same district, causing them to flee and burning nearly 40 houses.

TWO CIVILIANS KILLED, OVER 66 HOUSES BURNED IN MACOMIA DISTRICT
On January 2, ISIS operatives machine-gunned two ships of the Mozambican army near an island in the Macomia district, wounding at least one soldier and causing damage to the ships. Al-Naba' attached an "exclusive" photo from the attack, documenting several ISIS fighters on the coast.

On January 4, ISIS operatives machine-gunned civilians in the village of Chai in the Macomia district, killing one and causing the others to flee. The operatives burned six houses before returning to their positions unharmed.

On January 7, ISIS operatives machine-gunned a concentration of the Mozambican army in a village in the Macomia district, causing the forces to flee, seizing "various weapons" and burning the position, before setting fire to more than 50 houses.

On January 9, ISIS operatives machine-gunned civilians in the village of Litamanda, in the Macomia district, killing one and causing the others to flee. The operatives burned ten houses, before returning to their positions unharmed. Al-Naba' attached an "exclusive" photo from the attack, showing an ISIS fighter shooting.

TWO CIVILIANS KILLED IN MUIDUMBE DISTRICT
On January 5, ISIS operatives attacked the village of Chinda in the Muidumbe district, killing two civilians.

Issue 421 of Al-Naba', released on December 14, 2023, published a graphically violent "exclusive" documenting a December 6 attack on a military position in Nguri, Cabo Delgado. On December 7, the group claimed that on December 6 its operatives killed five soldiers in an attack on a concentration of the "Crusader" Mozambican army in the village of Negure, Muidumbe district, while on December 8 it claimed beheading an "unbeliever Christian" nearby.

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Southeast Asia

Philippine military denies killing Moro Islamic Liberation Front members in weekend clash

2023-06-22

[BenarNews] The Philippine military defended itself Wednesday against allegations that it killed members of a former Moslem guerrilla group, which had signed a peace deal with Manila in 2014, during a weekend shootout in the south.

Philippine officials say the seven people slain during the clash with government forces in Maguindanao on Sunday were members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF), a pro-Islamic State

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Southeast Asia

5 suspected IS-linked militants killed in govt assault in southern Philippines

2023-03-28

[BenarNews] Five suspected Filipino Death Eaters with the local the Islamic State

One was named Mohammed and the other Mahamoud.

Citing information from the informants, Almorato said DI members apparently were planning to detonate the IEDs at populated areas in Maguindanao and Cotabato provinces at the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan last Wednesday.

Materials used in the manufacture of IEDs, a .45-caliber pistol and Garand rifle ammunition were found at the lair, Almorato said.

The DI group is composed mostly of Death Eaters belonging to a faction from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
, a splinter group from the ex-separatist force Moro Islamic Liberation Front,

(MILF), so go ahead and snicker...

which controls an autonomous region in the south.

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Southeast Asia

1 soldier killed, another wounded in violence in southern Philippines

2023-03-23

And so Ramadan begins.

[BenarNews] Violence marred the eve of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan in the southern Philippines after suspects from a pro-Islamic State

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Great White North

Shop Teacher with Massive Fake Melons Suspended

2023-03-03

[PJMEDIA] Canada’s fake Z-cup boobs-wearing trans teacher has been put on

leave for not wearing his fake boobs enough. This is a real news story. It also might be the most 21st Century scam of ... well, of the 21st Century. Bear with me here as we plunge deep into the details of this stand-out story.
Woke to the extreme or Master Troll?
Shop teacher Kerry "Kayla" Lemieux, according to the Daily Mail, has "finally been suspended from her Canadian school after pictures showed her in men’s clothing, proving she does not wear the provocative attire all the time." He gained infamy last year for wearing tight clothes and comically — some would say offensively — large fake breasts, complete with protruding nipples.
I could hang my hat on those.
There has been speculation from the beginning that Lemieux has been "gaming the system" and isn’t trans at all, whatever that overly-broad term might mean in his case.

Lemieux has since been repeatedly photographed dressed like a normal dude while away from school. One of his neighbors was quoted by DM claiming that Lemieux "wears prosthetic breasts extremely infrequently," and that he only "puts the breasts on to teach, occasionally when he goes for a walk or when the cops visit."

In the 21st Century, we need neighbors armed with smartphones to see if the fake femme with the massive melons is playing some kind of con. One kind of con might be getting yourself placed on paid leave for adopting a persona that, under Canadian law, basically makes you un-fireable.
Students were threatened with suspension if they photographed ~~her~~ him.
That might be why, even with photo evidence to the contrary, Lemieux still asserts his ridiculous claim. He insisted to the New York Post two weeks ago, when the photos first emerged, "I’m not wearing prosthetic breasts. These are real."
Sure you're not. They weren't there at the start of school last fall.
Although Lemieux has yet to produce any medical evidence for his "condition," he still says, "I believe — and my doctor thinks — because I have XX chromosomes as well, that has something to do with it, and hormone sensitivity to estrogen has caused it."

So that must have been someone else in those photographs: "I can’t tell you who that is because I don’t want to bring anyone else into this. I don’t want that person being thrown all over the media, but it wasn’t me."

Lemieux’s Z-cups runneth over with chutzpah.

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-Short Attention Span Theater-

A nuclear attack would most likely target one of these 6 US cities ‐ but an expert says none of them are prepared

2023-01-02

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A nuclear attack in a large metropolitan area is one of the 15 disaster scenarios for which the US Federal Emergency Management Agency has an emergency strategy. The agency's plan involves deploying first responders, providing immediate shelter for evacuees, and decontaminating victims who have been exposed to radiation.

For everyday citizens, FEMA has some simple advice: Get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned.

The six urban areas that Redlener thinks are the most likely targets of a nuclear attack: New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

But according to Irwin Redlener, a public-health expert at Columbia University who specializes in disaster preparedness, these federal guidelines aren't enough to prepare a city for a nuclear attack.

"There isn't a single jurisdiction in America that has anything approaching an adequate plan to deal with a nuclear detonation," he said.

That includes the six urban areas that Redlener thinks are the most likely targets of a nuclear attack: New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

I’m not living in any of them — that seems a good start.

These cities are not only some of the largest and densest in the country, but home to critical infrastructure (like energy plants, financial hubs, government facilities, and wireless transmission systems) that are vital to US security.

Each city has an emergency-management website that informs citizens about what to do in a crisis, but most of those sites (except for LA and New York) don't directly mention a nuclear attack. That makes it difficult for residents to learn how to protect themselves if a bomb were to hit one of those cities.

"It would not be the end of life as we know it," Redlener said of that scenario. "It would just be a horrific, catastrophic disaster with many, many unknown and cascading consequences."

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Terror Networks

US’s RFJ allocates $5 million for information on Abu Ayman al-Masri.

2022-12-16

[Shafaq News] Rewards for Justice (RFJ), the U.S. Department of State’s national security rewards program, announces offering a reward of up to $5 million for information on Ibrahim al-Banna, also known as Abu Ayman al-Masri.

"Al-Banna is a big shot of al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). He was a founding member of AQAP, has served as the group’s chief of security, and has provided military and security guidance to AQAP leadership. al-Banna is the last of AQAP’s founding members." RFJ official website said.

Prior to his membership with AQAP, al-Banna was a leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
from 1996 to 1998 and subsequently was in charge of the group’s training and intelligence sectors. The website explained.

On June 5, 2017, the U.S. Department of State designated al-Banna as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended. As a result of this designation, among other consequences, all property and interests in property of al-Banna that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with al-Banna. In addition, it is a crime to knowingly provide, or attempt or conspire to provide, material support or resources to the FTO AQAP.

The US government established RFJ to offer rewards to obtain information that "protects American lives and U.S. interests and furthers U.S. national security."

Since 1984, Congress has expanded RFJ’s statutory authorities to offer rewards for information in four broad categories: terrorism, Foreign Election Interference, Malicious Cyber Activity, and North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...

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Philippine military blames IS-linked group for deadly bus bombing in south

2022-11-08

[BenarNews] The Philippine military on Monday blamed the Filipino unit of the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslem group for the bombing of a passenger bus that left one person dead and injured 11 others at the weekend in the volatile south.

The vehicle from the Yellow Bus Line, with 29 passengers aboard, was approaching Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat province when the home-made bomb went off at noon on Sunday, regional military commander Maj. Gen. Roy Galido said.

"This is a cowardly act of the terrorist group and peace spoilers that put the lives of innocent civilians in danger and doing so is a violation of both human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
and international humanitarian law," Galido said.

"In this regard, we are working with the police Sherlocks and ready to assist them in law enforcement operations to neutralize these terrorists."

Philippine National Police spokeswoman Col. Jean Fajardo said the likely motive was extortion. She noted that the same bus line was attacked in a May bombing that maimed two passengers.

"Before the bombing incident, the management of the Yellow Bus received a call. Apparently they are extorting money from the bus company," she told news hounds in Manila.

Galido identified the suspects as members of the southern-based group Daulah Islamiyah, the Filipino term for Islamic State.

It consists of fighters from several Filipino murderous Moslem factions, including the Maute Group, which had provided men for the siege of Marawi City by pro-IS snuffies in 2017 that left more than 1,200 people, mostly combatants, dead.

The military said the latest bombing could also be a diversionary tactic by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF), another pro-IS group, to ease military pressure against them. Many of BIFF’s fighters often operate with other groups, such as Daulah Islamiyah.

Suspected members of a BIFF unit have been on the run from military personnel since Saturday, when government troops killed two snuffies during an operation in Shariff Aguak, a town in Maguindanao province. The military launched the offensive in retaliation for a murderous Moslem attack that killed one soldier as soldiers manned a bridge in the area on Friday.

Rommel Banlaoi, a counter-terrorism analyst at the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, said BIFF was gearing up for more attacks after its leader, Abu Turaife, allegedly released a new video urging his followers to press on with a jihad in the south.

Turaife is one of the hardcore leaders of BIFF, a splinter group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which signed a peace deal with Manila in 2014 and now controls a Moslem autonomous area in the south.

"The remaining followers of Turaife have acquired the skill of bomb making from their previous colleagues in the MILF," Banlaoi said.

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Southeast Asia

Malaysia shows suspected local Mossad agents behind alleged kidnapping of Hamas man

2022-10-19

[IsraelTimes] Chained, blindfolded men led to courthouse amid media reports of ’bungled’ snatch operation leading to more than a dozen arrests.

Malaysia on Tuesday publicly paraded around several suspects who were reportedly arrested for kidnapping a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operative on behalf of the Mossad so that he could be interrogated by Israel.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the alleged agents, all local Malaysians, bungled the operation, enabling police to free their captive, reportedly bursting in as Israelis were questioning him via video call.

Footage broadcast on Malaysian news channels showed several men walking in a line to the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate’s Court, their hands manacled and eyes covered.

Local media reports said they are among at least 11 people who have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping.

Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said authorities will investigate the matter and take action if the Israeli spy agency is found to be behind the incident.

"We should look into matters like this," and will announce further actions, he said, according to a report from the New Strait Times.

Malaysia, a majority-Moslem nation and strong supporter of the Paleostinian cause, does not have any diplomatic relations with Israel.

The New Strait Times claims that authorities in Malaysia recently freed a Paleostinian man who had allegedly been captured late last month by local Mossad operatives and was being interrogated near Kuala Lumpur for his supposed affiliation with the Hamas terror group and its armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

On September 28, a team of four operatives kidnapped the Paleostinian man, who is from the Hamas-ruled Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, as he was getting into a vehicle with another Gazook man in the Malaysian capital. Both were said to be computer programming experts.

The second man, who according to Malaysian reports tried to help his friend, was warned to stay away as the operatives dragged their target to a waiting van. He then hurried to alert authorities of the incident, reportedly realizing that his ~~lover~~ companion was being snatched by the Mossad.

Citing a source with knowledge of the case, the New Strait Times reported the kidnapped man was beaten in the van and taken to a chalet in a secluded area of Kuala Langat district, southwest of the capital.

At the chalet, the Paleostinian man was tied to a chair and made to face Israeli interrogators via video, who reportedly told him: "You know why you are here."

The interrogation went on for about a day before Malaysian authorities raided the cabin and arrested the alleged operatives while taking the Paleostinian abductee into custody.

Malaysian Police Inspector-General Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said that 11 people had already been charged last week in connection with the case.

According to the Malaysian report, the Paleostinian man sustained multiple injuries during the alleged beatings by the operatives and has since left Malaysia along with the second Paleostinian.

The Gaza Interior and National Security Ministry on Monday thanked Malaysian authorities for rescuing the Paleostinian man, and denounced Mossad for the kidnapping.

"This has exposed the activities of Mossad members operating abroad and their larger network," the ministry said, according to a New Strait Times report.

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Southeast Asia

Wanted BIFF militant surrenders in southern Philippines

2022-10-06

[BenarNews] An aide to one of the Philippines’ most wanted bomb-makers, the late hard boy Abdul Basit Usman, has surrendered to authorities in the volatile southern region of Mindanao, officials said Wednesday.

The suspect, identified as Manap Mamaluba, is a member of the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF) hard boy group and was on the run from authorities for years, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

Mamaluba surrendered two weeks ago, but this was only made public after he was subjected to verification and questioning this week, said Nicanor Suarez, front man for the investigation bureau.

BIFF is a splinter of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a former separatist guerrilla group whose leaders now control an autonomous region in the southern Philippines. The surrender occurred in the area formally known as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Moslem Mindanao (BAARM), according to a statement from the bureau.

"The surrender of Mamaluba was made possible through his uncle, a certain Commander Tiger of the MILF," Suarez said. "Currently, the subject is under the custody of the Municipality of Datu Abdullah Sangki."

The exact identity of Commander Tiger was not revealed, although he is believed to be one of the field commanders of the MILF in the southern province of Maguindanao, intelligence officials said.

Officials did not release more details about Mamaluba.

His boss, Usman, was a top hard boy who had made it onto the U.S. State Department’s list of wanted terrorists. Security experts say Usman had trained many Lions of Islam in bomb making, including those affiliated with Jemaah Islamiyah.

JI, an Indonesia-based hard boy group and the Southeast Asian affiliate of al-Qaeda, was blamed for the October 2002 Bali bombings - that country’s deadliest terror attack to date.

In January 2015, Usman escaped a raid by the police Special Action Force (SAF) in the town of Mamasapano in Mindanao that resulted in the death of Zulkifli bin Hir (alias Marwan), a Malaysian terror suspect who was hiding in the southern Philippines.

Forty-four SAF commandos were killed during the botched operation. They became caught in a deadly firefight with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front who thought they had come under attack.

The Philippine military killed Usman three months later.

The BIFF, the splinter faction, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State bad boy group, and many of its members are separately wanted for other crimes, including kidnapping for ransom and extortion.

Col. Abdulrasad Sirajan, the military’s regional front man, told BenarNews that their crackdown against Mamaluba’s colleagues was continuing but government forces remained open to those who were willing to surrender.

"Our operation is going on without rest, but on the other hand, we welcome those who want to live a normal life," he said, adding that about 360 BIFF fighters had surrendered since last year in Maguindanao.

In January 2021, BIFF Lions of Islam carried out two roadside kaboomings that killed three people and injured dozens more in the south.

In 2017, hundreds of pro-IS fighters from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere took over the southern Philippine city of Marawi for five months. Some 1,200 people were killed in a battle that ensued between the Lions of Islam and government forces.

While BIFF did not send guerrillas to join that battle, it launched diversionary attacks at the time, according to officials.

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Philippine police hunt for 6 IS-linked militants in officers’ killings

2022-09-03

[BenarNews] Six members of a holy warrior group linked to Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
hard boyz were responsible for killing a police chief and his aide during a roadside ambush in the southern Philippines earlier this week, and a manhunt is under way, officials said Friday.

National police chief Rodolfo Azurin Jr. told news hounds he had directed officers to coordinate with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country’s former largest separatist group that controls a Moslem autonomous region in the south, to catch the suspects in the attack in Maguindanao province.

The suspects are believed to be former MILF guerrillas who joined the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF), a splinter group that has rejected the regional grinding of the peace processor with the government and is allied with a Philippine faction of the Islamic State (IS) group.

"Our hot pursuit operation is ongoing. As far as the identification of the suspects, they are BIFF. I have directed our men to file the case against these perpetrators," Azurin said without identifying each individual.

The suspects were blamed for killing police Lt. Col. Reynaldo Samson and his aide, Cpl. Salipudin Endab, outside of Ampatuan town on Tuesday. Three other coppers were maimed in the ambush and ensuing firefight.

Samson was the local chief of police.

The officers were on their way to arrest a narco identified as Abdulnasser Guianid, who was believed to have close ties with holy warrior organizations, police said.

The six suspects involved in the ambush also have existing arrest warrants, Azurin said.

"Right now, we are still waiting for the response of the MILF who have to show sincerity because we have signed the peace pact," Azurin said.

As part of a pact agreed to under a peace deal struck between Manila and the MILF in 2014, officers can enter the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM), which the Moro Islamic Liberation Front controls.

"They should help the (national) government, which has already accommodated them. This time, we need reciprocity from them. So surrendering these people is part of that reciprocity that we are expecting," he said.

Senior MILF member Mohagher Iqbal, who served as the former rebel group’s chief peace negotiator, said the suspects are not members of the MILF, but of the splinter group.

"Rest assured, our men on the ground will assist authorities in hunting down the suspects behind the ambush," he told BenarNews.

Abdulraof Macacua, another senior MILF member, said its forces were directed to cooperate with police and the military if troops are dispatched to MILF strongholds to search for the suspects.

In a separate statement, BARMM front man Naguib Sinarimbo denied any MILF involvement in the attack.

"The MILF has nothing to do with it," he said.

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