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Eva Longoria reveals she has fled ''dystopian'' America with her family and is now living in Mexico and Spain

2024-11-16

[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Eva Longoria fled 'dystopian' America and is 'privileged' to now be living in Mexico and Spain with her family.
Eva Longoria? Wow. Who'da thunkit. Anybody know who she is?
The Texas born actress, who has spent her 'whole adult life' in California, says she feels the American 'chapter in my life is done now' and no longer wants to live in Los Angeles, alleging the city has been 'changing'.
Spent her 'whole adult life' in California? That does explain a lot.
Longoria, who has Spanish citizenship, and her producer husband Jose Baston, a native of Mexico, have been living abroad with their six-year-old son Santiago while she works on her CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
miniseries Searching for Spain - a follow up to last year's Searching for Mexico.
I know right where it is: About 150 miles south of where I sit right this moment. I'll do a CNN miniseries called "Finding Mexico" for CNN if they'll give me lotsa money. I know where Spain is too, if they have even more money.
The Desperate Housewives actress, who campaigned hard for Kamala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress
to win the presidential election, fears that if Donald Trump 'keeps his promises' the US will be a 'scary place'.
I ain'ta scared o' no Trump. I somehow managed to survive Sleepy Joe and Jill.
'I get to escape and go somewhere,' the Flamin' Hot director, 49, told Marie Claire magazine. 'Most Americans aren't so lucky. They're going to be stuck in this dystopian country, and my anxiety and sadness is for them.'
Escaping to Messico seems like going from the frying pan in the cabinet directly into the fire, but maybe that's just me.
It comes as Trump has started to fill key posts in his second administration and sent shockwaves through the Republican party on Wednesday night with his announcement that he'll nominate Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General.
As opposed to "respected jurist" and Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Right.
Keeping with the trend to stock his Cabinet with MAGA allies rather than veteran professionals in their requisite fields, Trump also named Elon Musk for a new cost- and waste-cutting role, Fox News host Pete Hegseth to run the sprawling Defense Department, and Tulsi Gabbard - who infuriated critics with claims about 'biolabs' in Ukraine -
... and for leaving the Dems...
to be Director of National Intelligence.

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Marcos condemns ‘cowardly ambush' of Philippine troops

2024-03-30

18.March 2024
[BenarNews] President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday promised swift justice for four soldiers killed by Filipino 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....
~~bandidos~~ Lions of Islam in the southern Philippines over the weekend. The military said suspected members of Daulah Islamiyah, a hard boy group, waylaid troops from the 3rd Cavalry of the 40th Infantry Battalion on Sunday in Maguindanao del Sur province, a hotbed of Islamic militancy. The troops were returning to base after distributing supplies to villagers near the town of Datu Hoffer.

"We strongly condemn the cowardly ambush that targeted four of our courageous soldiers in Maguindanao del Sur on March 17," Marcos said in a statement. "The despicable act only strengthens our resolve to eradicate terrorism from the region and our entire nation."

Marcos said his administration remained "resolute in our pledge to ensure that justice is swiftly served" for the fallen troops. He said he has instructed the military to quickly release financial assistance to the families of the fallen soldiers.

Reports reaching Marcos’ office said the troops had left a remote village where they had distributed food for residents in observance of Iftar, the breaking of the daily fast that Moslems observe during Ramadan.

Leaders of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao, which includes Maguindanao del Sur, did not comment on the attack as they had not seen a report about it, according to military officials.

The autonomous region is home to a fragile peace between Manila and former Moro Islamic Liberation Front separatist guerrillas, who administer BARMM. The region has struggled with violence since its birth in 2019.

On Monday, Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. extended his condolences to the families of the four "brave" soldiers who were killed. He said they were ambushed by at least 10 gunnies.

"The AFP vows to hunt down the perpetrators and neutralize these ruthless killers to finally put a stop to their ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful acts that disrupt peace and stability in the region," Brawner said, referring to the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Brawner said the military efforts would focus on members of Daulah Islamiyah, which literally translates to the "Islamic State." It includes fighters from several Filipino hard boy factions, including the Maute Group, which had provided men and logistics during a five-month siege of Marawi city by pro-IS fighters in 2017.

That siege, considered by security analysts as the biggest attack by the Islamic State in the region, was meant to take Marawi by force to make it the base in the region. Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern fighters attacked Marawi, leading to a five-month battle that killed at least 1,200 hard boys, military, police and civilians.

Sunday’s attack came a little more than two months after two army intelligence operatives were killed in an ambush while gathering information against suspects linked to a bombing during a Catholic Mass in Marawi city in December 2023 that left four dead.

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2 MILF members blamed for deadly ambush surrender in southern Philippines

2023-08-19

[BenarNews] Two rogue Moro Islamic Liberation Front members suspected of taking part in an attack that killed a soldier and a police officer in the southern Philippines last weekend have surrendered and will be charged with murder, military officials said Thursday.

The suspects were among 10 MILF button men who ambushed a government security team on Aug. 12 as it escorted regional peace monitors in Ulitan, a barangay on 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...
island, said Brig. Gen. Alvin Luzon, commander of Joint Task Force Basilan and the 101st Brigade.

The two were "primarily responsible (among the) perpetrators in the recent ambush," Luzon told news hounds here.

He said the suspects surrendered on Tuesday and had provided the military with vital information used by government troops to hunt down the others involved in the attack that left seven other troops injured.

Basilan is one of several provinces in the southern Mindanao region that make up the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM). In a 2014 peace agreement with Manila, the MILF gave up its long-running separatist insurgency in exchange for autonomous rule over predominantly Moslem areas in Mindanao.

Under the deal’s terms, the group promised to have its tens of thousands of members turn over and decommission their weapons, but the MILF has struggled to meet that target. In various phases so far, it has decommissioned about 4,500 weapons of 40,000 believed to be in the hands of the members of the former guerrilla force, according to Department of National Defense estimates.

In Sunday’s attack, the button men ambushed a security convoy guarding a Joint Peace and Security Team tasked with overseeing the decommissioning and disarming of former MILF combatants. The team — whose members are military, police, MILF and local officials — assists in monitoring and enforcing the peace pact.

On Thursday, Luzon pointed to the 2014 peace agreement as being instrumental, in close coordination with its leaders, for the "peaceful and voluntary surrender of the two rebel suspects."

He identified the suspects as Adzmin Manjapal, 20, and Mudzni Sapau, 27, saying they were both rogue members of the MILF.

The suspects were turned over to the Basilan police chief Col. Carlos Madronio to be charged with murder, Luzon said, while vowing to provide justice for those killed and seven injured in the ambush.

Luzon credited MILF leaders with facilitating the surrender, naming Malik Cadil, officer-in-charge of Western Mindanao Front MILF; and Hadji Sammad Ahaddin, member of the MILF Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostility. Abdurahman Rajan, deputy commander of MILF 114th Base Command, also played a role.

The military commander had previously said that the MILF’s leaders do not have control over people not identified as their members.

The MILF leaders did not immediately respond to BenarNews requests for comment.

During a decommissioning ceremony for 1,300 ex-combatants earlier this month, Murad Ebrahim, who heads the BARMM, blamed holy warrior groups with endangering efforts to disarm former MILF guerrillas.

Under the decommissioning process, each former combatant who hands over weapons is expected to receive about U.S. $2,400 per weapon, including funds for education.

"We are facing a very challenging situation because there are still groups out there that encourage our members to join them," Murad said at the time.

The surrender came amid an intense military-police manhunt for the suspects who were believed to be linked to a MILF faction led by Huram Malangka. The faction was alleged to be involved in killings including acting as guns for hire for criminal gangs.

"Under the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., such attacks will not go unpunished. Justice will be served," Philippine presidential peace adviser Carlito Galvez said on Thursday.

"The blatant disregard for human life and hostilities against our peace builders is an affront and an act of contempt against the tenets of peacebuilding, human dignity and respect to the rule of law."

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Bangsamoro leader: Militants endanger efforts to disarm ex-MILF guerrillas in southern Philippines

2023-08-05

[BenarNews] Militant groups are endangering efforts to disarm former Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas by trying to recruit them, the head of an autonomous Moslem region in the southern Philippines told 1,300 ex-combatants during their official decommissioning ceremony this week.

Some MILF members have reneged on the group’s promise to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to cooperate in the transition to peace in the south, said Murad Ebrahim, the ex-chief of the former separatist group who now heads the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM).

"We are facing a very challenging situation because there are still groups out there that encourage our members to join them," Murad told news hounds Thursday during a ceremony here as he led 1,301 former MILF combatants in the third and final phase of a process to decommission them as fighters and have them turn over their weapons.

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Gunmen launch deadly attack on southern Philippine Muslim community

2023-01-19

Jihad or not, they act the same. It’s just the targets that are different. This time it’s not jihad, just normal intra-Moslem viciousness.

[BenarNews] Gunmen attacked a community of former Moslem guerrillas in the southern Philippines city of Cotabato before dawn on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring five others, police said.

About 20 gunnies stormed the village of Tamontaka 2, a community of mostly former rebels belonging to Moro National Liberation Front

...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
(MNLF), city police chief Col. Querubin Manalang told news hounds.

Manalang said a shootout erupted between the button men and MNLF members, resulting in the death of two former rebels, identified as Pacundo Pangilan and Razul Abdulla, and the injuries to the others.

"The situation now is back to normal. We have coppers deployed in the area," Manalang said.

The chief said Sherlocks have not determined what led to the attack.

"If this is a case of clan war, we ask the families of those fatalities to coordinate with us so we can take the necessary action."

Romeo Sema, a senior MNLF leader who is a labor minister in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM), confirmed that his group’s members were involved in the gun fight.

"We are still investigating," he told BenarNews, but could not release additional details.

In the Philippines, particularly in predominantly Moslem areas of Mindanao island, it is not unusual for families to settle differences through clan wars or "rido." Hostilities could last for decades until a peace pact is signed by the protagonists, usually through mediation by religious leaders along with a cash payment.

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE
Political rivalries, ancestral land claims, disputes on local fiefdoms, as well as election-related feuds often spur clan wars in Mindanao, the country’s mineral-rich southern third that has been locked into a cycle of violence for years. The island near the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah has also been saddled by decades of local insurgencies and separatist movements.

The MNLF was the precursor of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The older group signed a peace deal with Manila in 1996, dropping its rebellion for a separate Moslem homeland in the south for autonomy.

The MILF had splintered from the MNLF in 1978 and continued fight with government forces until 2014 when it agreed to peace in exchange for limited autonomy, eventually leading to the BARMM.

While both groups had agreed to decommission firearms and retire their fighters, unlicensed weapons remain a concern in many areas in the south.

Under the MILF agreement with the government, each former combatant who turns in weapons is expected to receive a cash payment, including money for education.

Despite the agreement, Rommel Banlaoi, a counter-terrorism analyst at the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, said the proliferation of firearms in the south is a huge problem.

Citing data, Banlaoi said 80% of the 600,000 unregistered guns in the Philippines are in the region.

"Illegal guns are mostly found in BARMM, not to mention the continuing homemade bomb training camps in the Bangsamoro region," Banlaoi told BenarNews.

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'The lowest form of scum': Florida cops arrest seven looters for ransacking homes destroyed by Hurricane Ian

2022-10-15

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Hurricane Ian left at least 109 people dead, with at least 55 coming in Lee County

Governor Ron DeSantis said 79,000 structures have been searched and announced the opening of the first Disaster Recovery Center in Fort Myers

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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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Gunmen kill police chief, aide in southern Philippine ambush

2022-08-31

[BenarNews] Unidentified gunman killed a local police chief and his aide, and maimed three other coppers during a roadside ambush in the southern Philippines on Tuesday while the officers were on their way to arrest a suspect, authorities said.

No one grabbed credit for the attack, but a separatist hard boy group that swore allegiance to the so-called 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....
bully boy group operates in the area around Ampatuan, the town in Maguindanao province where the incident occurred, police said.

The button men opened fire on the marked vehicle of the arresting officers at about 10 a.m. in a village outside of Ampatuan. A shootout ensued that led to the deaths of Lt. Col. Reynaldo Samson, the local police chief, and his aide, Cpl. Salipudin Endab.

"Someone leaked the information about our operation," Brig. Gen. John Gano Guyguyon, the police director in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM), told news hounds, confirming the killings.

"We condemn to the highest degree this incident and we condole with the families of the victims," he added.

A photo circulating on social media showed a police car riddled with bullets along the road in Kapinpilan village, with one of the two slain officers on the ground.

The police were supposed to serve a warrant against a long-wanted narco, identified as Abdulnasser Guianid, when they were ambushed, Guyguyon said. The maimed police, he said, were out of danger, and a manhunt was under way for Guianid.

Guyguyon said it was well known that hard boy groups such as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF) operate in the fringes of Maguindanao province. In addition, he said, smaller gangs of former separatist rebels also work in the area, sometimes as guns-for-hire for other groups.

BIFF has been blamed for several attacks, including bombings in public areas. It is a splinter group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which signed a peace deal with Manila in 2014 and now controls the autonomous Moslem region.

"We have been telling our men to be cautious in their mission because this group is still active. We assure the public that we will not let this pass. We will do everything to keep the peace," Guyguyon said.

The incident on Tuesday occurred in the same town where 58 people, including 32 journalists, were killed by members of an influential clan in 2009. The victims of that attack were accompanying the wife of Esmael Mangudadatu, who had challenged the patriarch of the Ampatuan clan for the top political post in the province.

In December 2019, a court sentenced to life imprisonment 28 members of Ampatuan clam after more than a decade of trial.

In predominantly Moslem areas of Mindanao island, it is not unusual for families to settle differences through clan wars known as "rido." Hostilities could last for decades until a peace pact is signed, usually through mediation by religious leaders along with a cash payment.

Political rivalries, ancestral land claims, disputes over local fiefdoms as well as election-related feuds often spur clan wars in Mindanao.

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Philippines: Polls in Autonomous Muslim Region Postponed till 2025

2021-10-30

[BenarNews] Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law postponing parliamentary elections in an autonomous Moslem region currently governed by former separatist rebels in the south, his office said Friday.

Voters in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Moslem Mindanao (BARMM) were set to elect their first government next year, but the head of the transitional authority in the region had requested more time to complete reforms that he said were needed before the polls.

The polls "shall be held and synchronized with the 2025 national elections," said the amended version of the law that Duterte signed on Thursday.

Ahod Balawag Ebrahim, who heads the former separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the transitional authority in BARMM had pushed strongly for the postponement of the polls.

Known widely as Murad Ebrahim, the leader had said that the COVID-19 pandemic had disrupted efforts by the transitional authority to complete foundational work in time for the regional polls originally expected in 2022.

"Initially, we wanted six years [of transition] but the Moro Islamic Liberation Front had agreed to a compromise of three years. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
we see that time as very short," Murad told BenarNews last December.

He was referring to negotiations that ended the front’s decades-long armed separatist campaign and led to the creation BARMM.

"The extension for three more years gives us a better chance for healing, for rebuilding, and for setting the future of the Bangsamoro," Murad had said at the time.

MILF used to be the largest of guerrilla organizations fighting for a separate Moslem state in the mainly Catholic Philippines since 1978. In 2014, it signed a Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) with the government after 17 years of conflict and negotiations in Mindanao.

The front settled for expanded autonomy and agreed that its members would turn in their weapons. In February 2019, these former guerrillas, led by Murad, formally assumed leadership of the autonomous Moslem region.

‘ABSENCE OF AN ELECTORAL FRAMEWORK’
Postponing the vote is tantamount to extending the term of the region’s caretaker government, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, Georgi Engelbrecht, senior analyst, Philippines, said on Friday.ñ

"’[T]he former rebels running the interim government had to put aside their institution-building in order to spearhead relief operations in the region while dealing with periodic lockdowns and steering a less operational Bangsamoro Parliament," the International Crisis Group’s expert said in an ICG Q&A.

"Another part of the rationale for extending the transition was the absence of an electoral framework to guide parliamentary polls in the new autonomous region."

According to Engelbrecht, the interim government was responsible for designing the framework, or electoral code, but at present, only a draft code exists.

Engelbrecht noted that some observers alleged that MILF might have had an interest in extending the transition period because it meant the group would have another three years before facing voters for the first time.

"While that is difficult to corroborate, the fact remains that electing 80 parliamentarians without clear guidelines would have proven challenging," the ICG expert said.

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Philippine Muslim Autonomous Region Leader Seeks More Time to Control Militants

2021-05-15

[BenarNews] The transitional autonomous government in the southern Philippines needs more time to control turbans linked to the Islamic State

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Europe

Separatist group ETA's 'most wanted' Josu Ternera arrested in France

2019-05-16

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style='float:right;border:1px solid midnightblue;padding:3px;margin:3px;' />MADRID (Reuters) - ETA kingpin Josu Ternera, accused by Spain of taking part in a 1987 attack by the since dissolved Basque separatist group that killed 11 people, was arrested in France early on Thursday.

Ternera, 69, also known as Jose Antonio Urrutikoetxea, was ETA’s "most wanted" leader on both side of the Pyrenees, Spain’s interior ministry said in a statement.

Ternera had been a fugitive since 2002 when, while he was serving as a lawmaker in the Basque regional parliament, Spain’s supreme court issued an international arrest warrant against him over his alleged involvement in the 1987 attack.

He was detained in a joint Franco-Spanish operation in the alpine Haute Savoie region near France’s border with Switzerland and Italy.

ETA, whose dissolution Ternera announced last year, bombed a police barracks in the city of Zaragoza in December 1987, killing 11 people including six children.

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Southeast Asia

20 BIFF militants killed in Maguindanao clashes

2019-03-15

[Rappler] At least two foreign fighters are believed to be among the 20 Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters killed in military operations that began on Monday, March 11.

Philippine military spokesman Cirilito Sobejana said “more or less 20” were killed “including one foreign terrorist." He said the body of an Arab-looking fighter was seen among the dead.

Sobejana said Singaporean militant Muhamad Ali Abdul Rahiman, known as Mauwiyah, was also in the area along with BIFF subleader Salahudin Hassan during the air strikes. They are believed to be among those killed. He said they're still retrieving the body parts so the fatalities may be identified.

The 6th ID launched on Monday, March 11, air strikes and ground operations against BIFF fighters in the so-called “SPMS box” – the towns of Shariff Aguak, Pagatin, Mamasapano, and Salibo where the different BIFF factions operate. Up to 1,360 families or more than 5,000 residents were displaced in the military operations that was supposedly coordinated with local government units and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Captain Arvin Encinas, 6th ID spokesman, said the deaths resulting from the operations significantly reduced the number of BIFF combatants. He said they have names of at least 17 of the fighters killed in the operations, based also on information from the community. He said residents believe Mauwiyah was among those killed although only two bodies were recovered. Mauwiyah is a senior Jema'ah Islamiyah member reportedly associated with Moro militants.

The military estimates that over 200 fighters compose the three different factions of the breakaway group of the MILF, which now heads the new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

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