Topic: Terrorist siege in the Philippines. (Read 9699 times)

Female hostages of the Maute group in Marawi City are being forced into sex slavery and marriage with some of the terrorist fighters, the military said on Tuesday.

“The worst thing is there are cases of female hostages forced to marry the Maute local terrorist group so they are being forced for sex slave, or forced to destroy the dignity of these women,” Joint Task Force Marawi spokesperson Lt. Col. Jo-Ar Herrera said in a televised press briefing.

Government troops have also rescued seven hostages on Monday.

While in captivity, the hostages were tasked to loot houses and establishments for ammunition, firearms, gold, cash, and jewelries, Herrera said.

“Hostages were issued firearms, pinipilit nila ‘yung mga hostages to bring firearms so fino-force nila to fight government security forces,” he said.

“Pinipilit din nila that the hostages were forced to ‘balik-Islam,’ or revert to Islam, and also tasked to bring wounded terrorists to mosques,” he added.

The hostages, who were rescued after being held for about three weeks, have also claimed to have seen vicar general of the prelature of Marawi Fr. Chito Suganob alive.

Terrorists have offered to free Suganob in exchange for the parents of the Maute brothers, who have been arrested by authorities in separate occasions early this month. The government, however, rejected the offer, saying that they don’t negotiate with terrorists. JE

There are plenty of these groups in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. They are all just waiting for the right moment. Some of these groups have called for a SE Asian caliphate decades before ISIS appeared in Iraq. Muslims from these countries went to Iraq and Syria to fight for ISIS and now they are all going to come back home.

And don't belittle their support from the grassroots. Just look at the Filipino Muslims cheering for Maute on FB. Their religious leaders has now surface almost a month after the conflict started, asking for tolerance, blah, blah, blah and and end to airstrikes and lifting of the martial  law. You bet they'd be singing a different tune had they actually won. Venomous sand snakes. 

Yup, and now it's Australia that is worried that when the birds come to roost, there'll be trouble close to home.  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/risks-to-indonesia-after-islamic-state-attack-in-philippines/news-story/7cfbb1edeb4f25a523ac1a15fb8b5816

After all, Indonesia is quickly Islamizing, though I suppose it would be harder to fully transform like what happened to formerly secular Turkey.

But I don't think Asia will likely embrace ISIS. The Philippines is fighting terrorism like no other Southeast Asia country is. And I think ISIS will not succeed in the Asian region as well. We don't have a terrain that they can hide their asses off. They can do guerilla warfare, but that strategy alone won't be successful to establish caliphate. Although there are a lot of Muslim country around the region. They are not fundamentalist and radicalized as much as the Middle East so for me that can't and won't succeed in Southeast Asia.

The have lost territory steadily for the past 12-13 months. They are about to lose two of the most important cities under their control (Raqqa and Mosul). But the question is what is going to be next, if the ISIS can be completely eliminated from Iraq/Syria. The Americans will never support Assad, so I don't foresee any end to the civil war.

Good news, seems ISIS are really losing ground in Iraq, even destroying the mosque from which they declared their caliphate. Guess what other region have terrorist groups itching to declare a caliphate in? Southeast Asia. Looks like these ISIS guys will now have a lusher place to go on a vacation to where they can also kill infidels at the same time.

But I don't think Asia will likely embrace ISIS. The Philippines is fighting terrorism like no other Southeast Asia country is. And I think ISIS will not succeed in the Asian region as well. We don't have a terrain that they can hide their asses off. They can do guerilla warfare, but that strategy alone won't be successful to establish caliphate. Although there are a lot of Muslim country around the region. They are not fundamentalist and radicalized as much as the Middle East so for me that can't and won't succeed in Southeast Asia.

Good news, seems ISIS are really losing ground in Iraq, even destroying the mosque from which they declared their caliphate. Guess what other region have terrorist groups itching to declare a caliphate in? Southeast Asia. Looks like these ISIS guys will now have a lusher place to go on a vacation to where they can also kill infidels at the same time.

The point is they admitted they were "monitoring" people. I would have understood if they were caught of guard but no, even they said that the arms used by the terrorists were been being piled up way before the attack. Why didn't they move to arrest them right then and there?

Instead they allowed them to to fulfill their plans. For what, for them to be caught red-handed? At the cost of several soldiers and civilians?

Sigh, just admit you exaggerated THIS incident, the one we are talking about on THIS thread. You kept insisting a whole "state" was overrun. When I corrected you, you went on to start pointing at articles and when I told you I know that, you then started accusing me of "downplaying" the WHOLE country's situation and then went on rattling about different stuff like tuberculosis.

I'm also getting tired talking to you and repeating everything. If you want to keep at it at this thread, you are free do so, just don't expect further replies from me. You can even even go ranting about tuberculosis again. We don't behead people for saying stuff here.  

Atleast pinoys are very funnny.
You can stop your 3rd world conspiracies about me having alts.
Which nationality i am is easy to deduct and widely known except you are a 3rd world pinoy with an avg. Iq of 80.

Whats the difference about europe and pinoy utopia?
We have isolated terrorist attacks from radicalised  2nd/3rd generation muslims that kill less people then a public bus per year.
In pinoy utopia the muslim population conquers whole states.

Be more delusional please.

Ps: be grateful i give you the opportunity to spam for money instead of selling shabu

Can't blame the authorities for this mess. Philippines is a country of more than 100 million people, and it is not easy monitoring all of them. These foreign fighters might have somehow slipped through the net. Even in the European nations such as the Great Britain and France, terrorist attacks are now frequently occurring despite strict monitoring and surveillance.

As the day passes by the damage is getting bigger not just on the infrastructure, economics but most especially the emotional damage that the war causes to every civilian who are affected and it seems that this war is not yet closed to an end

Why is there an inclusion of this in the forum in the first place.  The category was a default one that came with the forum software and the fact that people touch it is pretty funny.

Yes, a butterfly in New York can make a tsunami in Japan, but that does not mean that the Japan news services are covering the butterfly activity news across the globe. 

If so take as a basis What is happening in each country, it seems to me that today there are no safe countries. It's like in the war, when people consider killed soldiers. And at the same time they understand that for example on the roads in traffic accidents people die much more for the whole day. Therefore, you need to approach everything with loyalty and with a different approach.

Yes, a butterfly in New York can make a tsunami in Japan, but that does not mean that the Japan news services are covering the butterfly activity news across the globe. 

I agree. It's really difficult to focus on a single intelligence information especially if you got it from a couple of years back. Though there should have been precautions already and I think this could've been prevented. A lot of people are already suffering from what's going on and it seems that this debacle wouldn't be over quite soon despite the Philippine military saying that there are only a few terrorists remaining now.

Even a secured country can have a hole in it. That can make it not secured. I think there are a lot of ways to enter our country especially we are close to another country. This will be a great lesson for the military and navy of our country.