SunStar Troops seize Abu Sayyaf harbor site
ZAMBOANGA. Special forces seized Sunday, February 7, a harbor site of the Abu Sayyaf bandits while on combat operation in Danag village, Patiul, Sulu. A photo handout shows soldiers inspecting the harbor site. (SunStar Zamboanga)
+ February 08, 2021 GOVERNMENT forces have seized a harbor site of the Abu Sayyaf bandits while on combat operation in Sulu, a top military official said Monday, February 8.
Brigadier General Antonio Bautista Jr., 1101st Infantry Brigade commander, said the troops of the 2nd Special Forces Battalion (2SFBn) seized the Abu Sayyaf harbor site around 7:15 a.m. Sunday, February 7, in Danag village, Patikul, Sulu.
January 21, 2021 THE base commanders of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under commander Ali Julkipli of Kalingalan Caluang, Sulu has declared the Abu Sayyaf bandits as persona non-grata in all of its camps and communities in the town.
The declaration is contained in a peace covenant Julkipli and his base commanders signed together with the Marine Battalion Landing Team-7 (MBLT-7) in a ceremony Tuesday, January 19, at the MBLT-7 headquarters in Karungdong village, Kalingalan Caluang.
Colonel Hernanie Songano, 4th Marine Brigade commander, presided the activity.
Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Olaso, MBLT-7 commander, said in a statement that the denouncement of the MNLF against the presence of Abu Sayyaf bandits in their respective camps and communities is a clear manifestation that MNLF, as Peace Inclined Armed Groups (PIAG), is one with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in establishing and maintaining peace and order in Kalingalan Caluang town.
isis killed those american hostages. i think you know, how much later the intelligence is significantly better. think about jihady john who was the executor of many of the western hostages who was killed in november. asayyaf, the financial guying a lot of records rovered from the ten coalition saying has been killed, that s a fairly good record compared to a poor record if you go back to over a year ago. and on the ib of whether the target overstated or calling these ten senior level or high value targets, is that hard to say? there s a reason the cool lig wants to say look we re doing a good job here, right? michael s point is correct. people who run this organization are iraqi and next level down are syrians. westerners have some role, think about jihady john. but they are the leaders of the organizations. okay. that s a very important point you make there.
bolster those forces bring in the capability to call for fire give them the weapons they need and the advisory capability along with direct action like we saw with the sayyaf raid. it s interesting you bring that up because that s exactly what we re seeing them do. arming and propping up some of the sunni forces in anbar province. you think that s going to be effective? overall, i think the net results will be further polarization between sunni arabs and shia arabs. it s just what s going to happen. there s plenty of indications of that already. that s a very worrisome development. it s going to be dependent upon how they do it. but it s very worrisome, and it needs into the strategy of isis. they want the shia militias to be pulled into anbar province because it will further polar sizepolarize
it s a sensitive issue, between using the militia, using the iraqi standard military forces and the security of the sunni population itself dealing with isis. these are complicated issues, but clearly we need to have more effective protection to the sunni communities. what kind of information is the united states looking for from sayyaf s wife at this point? clearly, our campaign against isis is to deal with them militarily in regards to territory, but also to cut off their financial abilities. what we were able to do with the syrian raid clearly will help us in cutting off their financial network, which of course, funds their terrorist activities. i think the question begs at this hour, are we going to get a vote on the use of military force as this continues to escalate? congress should pay us the authorization. that s our responsibility. to tailor it to the needs.