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ISIS Defeated in the Philippines - Duterte says Marawi is militant-free
BBC ^ | 17 Oct 2017 | BBC

Posted on 10/17/2017 8:33:43 AM PDT by BeauBo

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared the city of Marawi "liberated" from militants, even as fighting continues... Mr Duterte's declaration came a day after the army said they had killed top militants Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute. The two men led the Abu Sayyaf and Maute groups which formed part of the insurgency in Marawi. Both groups have pledged allegiance to, or have links to, IS.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abusayaf; duterte; isis; maute; philippines
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This is basically the death of ISIS in the Philippines. The main leaders, and the bulk of their fighters have been killed.
1 posted on 10/17/2017 8:33:43 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Next stop, Dearborn!


2 posted on 10/17/2017 8:35:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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To: BeauBo

Red letter day in history for ISIS!

Raqqa has been declared liberated as well.


3 posted on 10/17/2017 8:35:32 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: BeauBo
Thanks to our help. The Philippines owes us.
4 posted on 10/17/2017 8:36:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: BeauBo

Great news!


5 posted on 10/17/2017 8:37:30 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: BeauBo

Now just keep a military presence there, and let them inspect mosques at random.


6 posted on 10/17/2017 8:37:59 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Mark17

ping


7 posted on 10/17/2017 8:38:15 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BeauBo

Now shut down all the mosques...


8 posted on 10/17/2017 8:40:09 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: BeauBo

Muslims controlled the drug trafficking.

Enabling the citizenry to make citizens arrest of drug dealers and users - even to the point of backing the common citizen if lethal force was needed hit the Muslims hard and made them angry.

But even allying with there communist rivals, once the people arose things became guaranteed to end badly fo the Mohammedans.

Keep fighting until they are all dead this time please.


9 posted on 10/17/2017 8:40:48 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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How long before Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham demand Duterte’s overthrow in the name of “Democracy” and “Philippine Spring”? Globalists can’t seem to tolerate any foreign leaders who are capable of maintaining some semblance of order in their powderkeg countries.


10 posted on 10/17/2017 8:50:28 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: BeauBo

I’m starting to think Duterte is a kick-ass president. Make the Philippines great again! The vigilante stuff is harsh, but not sure it can be done with kid gloves.


11 posted on 10/17/2017 8:55:58 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: scottinoc

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/16/trump-to-meet-duterte-philippines-243812

TRUMP TO MEET DUTERTE IN ASIA NEXT MONTH.


12 posted on 10/17/2017 8:57:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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"Raqqa has been declared liberated as well."

Yup. I read that the street dogs there are digging up the mass graves of ISIS fighters and eating them.

I thought chaining up the ISIS fighters without food or water and letting the dogs eat them alive would be more fitting for these Moslem, pig-faced, scum of the earth.

13 posted on 10/17/2017 9:02:47 AM PDT by blam
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“I’m starting to think Duterte is a kick-ass president.”

No doubt about that.

That pile of ISIS bodies is definite proof.

Early in his Presidency, he discussed the armed muslim groups in the Philippines (some of whom, like the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, represent a large tribal/ethnic group). He said that some could be negotiated with - but those who swore allegiance to ISIS could not. He famously said: “Abu Sayaf, just kill”. As of today, most are dead, including their leader.


14 posted on 10/17/2017 9:15:08 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: blam

I believe that was a story from Iraq that talked about the mass graves. The side report about Raqqa was asking if the ISIS were being handled in the same way. The commander’s answer was that he was focused on what he had to do above the ground and had no concern for anything under it. Essentially, letting the wild dog packs do their bidding. When I was stationed in Tehran, our team house was out on the northeastern edges of the city and wild dog packs were a common sight. So, if those ISIS fighters killed are ever buried, their Islamic rights can not be administered to by being defiled by the wild dogs.

Kudos to the SDF commander!


15 posted on 10/17/2017 9:15:43 AM PDT by mazda77
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“The vigilante stuff is harsh”

In the 1950s I became aware of the constant drumbeat of a “vigilantes are bad” narrative on TV, particularly westerns.

I don’t know if it started before that in movies and print media, but go back and binge-watch some old TV westerns and it will jump out at you.

It is clear now that this was the left working to make themselves safe from the common man as they strove to destroy America.

Even now, conservatives who should know better regard vigilantism as worse than losing their country.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1.


16 posted on 10/17/2017 9:30:17 AM PDT by dsc
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“How long before Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham demand Duterte’s overthrow in the name of “Democracy” and “Philippine Spring”?”

That’s what they did to Ferdinand Marcos, after he suppressed the pigdog murder-muzzies and the commies.

Will we let them do it again?


17 posted on 10/17/2017 9:32:37 AM PDT by dsc
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To: laplata

Thanks for the ping bro. Marawi City, has been a Muslim stronghold for a long time. It will be interesting to see how things go from here.


18 posted on 10/17/2017 9:48:28 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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You bet, bro. I’m glad to hear this and you are all safe.


19 posted on 10/17/2017 9:51:45 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: dsc

I’m so tired of this half-baked nationalism crap!!! /s


20 posted on 10/17/2017 11:25:56 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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