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ISIS has captured Filipino city of Marawi

 
djdrastic 2017-05-24 07:12:10 

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte placed 22 million people under military rule as ISIS-linked militants battled troops in a southern city after a raid targeting a top terrorist suspect went wrong.

Archbishop Socrates Villegas later told the Associated Press that a priest and more than a dozen churchgoers and staff were also taken hostage from a Catholic cathedral by gunmen in Marawi City.

Duterte on Tuesday declared martial law on Mindanao island — which is the size of South Korea — after the militants occupied parts of the city. He cut short a trip Moscow to deal with the crisis.

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djdrastic 2017-05-24 07:35:05 

Several updates.

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Drapsey 2017-05-24 07:50:43 

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Duterte on Tuesday declared martial law on Mindanao island — which is the size of South Korea — after the militants occupied parts of the city. He cut short a trip Moscow to deal with the crisis.

I see President Rodrigo Duterte is being kept busy, or is it distracted from his ambitious plans to move his country 'forward'?

 
djdrastic 2017-05-24 08:11:31 

In reply to Drapsey

Oh he's no saint that's for sure.

 
Curtis 2017-05-24 16:52:01 

In reply to djdrastic

WTF ISIS doing in Philippines?

Was surprised to hear about Muslims there too.

 
runout 2017-05-24 21:57:16 

"He declared martial rule for 60 days in the entire Mindanao region — home to 22 million people — and vowed to be "harsh."

"If I think that you should die, you will die," he said. "If you fight us, you will die. If there is open defiance, you will die. And if it means many people dying, so be it."

But he said he would not allow abuses and that law-abiding citizens had nothing to fear.


This fella is ISIS worst nightmare. He means business.

 
nickoutr 2017-05-24 22:19:53 

In reply to Curtis
abu sayef