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2022-03-02 Southeast Asia
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Two Suspected Pro-IS Militants, Govt Soldier Die in Southern Philippine Battle
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[BenarNews] Two Filipino members of an 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....
-linked turban group and a soldier were killed during a battle in the southern Philippines on Tuesday in which government warplanes bombed suspected bad boy positions as part of a "major operation," the military said.
The military offensive targeted members of Daulah Islamiyah-Maute Group bad boy faction, said Lt. Gen. Alfredo Rosario Jr., head of the Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) headquartered in Zamboanga city.
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"We’ve been monitoring this Maute Group. The operation [was] very deliberate. We made sure no civilians would be affected," Rosario told news hounds, describing the offensive as a "major operation."
Maj. Andrew Linao, a front man for the regional command, said government troops recovered "two bodies of Maute members" at a bad boy camp overrun by the military, while "a soldier also died and three other government troops were maimed."
Daulah Islamiyah is the local name of the Islamic State (IS), whose membership comprises fighters from several Filipino bad boy factions, including the Maute Group fighting out of Lanao.
In May 2017, Maute Group members and other pro-IS holy warriors launched a siege of Marawi, precipitating a battle with government forces that lasted five months. As many as 1,200 bad boys, troops and non-combatants were killed before the military regained control of the southern Philippine city.
AERIAL, GROUND ASSAULTS
On Tuesday, the military launched bombing runs before dawn to support an infantry mission against 60 Daulah Islamiyah members hiding out in the hinterlands of Ilalag in Lanao del Sur province, WestMinCom said in a statement.
Linao said ground troops assaulted the Maute Group fighters at around 2 a.m., unleashing a battle with about 50 holy warriors under the leadership of Abu Zacharia. Military officials have accused the local IS leader, also known as Jer Mimbantas,
...but not in our archives under either name... of leading attacks against government positions in Lanao towns.
Zacharia faces arrest warrants on charges of arson, murder, kidnapping and terrorism, according to officials.
The military said the holy warriors fled from the battle.
"As of now, we’re pursuing them — the enemy scampered," Linao told news hounds.
He said the battle occurred far from communities, but he urged residents to stay put and remain calm amid pursuit-operations against the bad boys.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
military front man Col. Ramon Zagala told BenarNews that Philippine Air Force’s FA-50 lead-in fighters and A-29 Super Tucano bomber planes carried out the aerial assault.
"We used precision munitions since our troops were nearby. There are no civilians in the area since this was in the hinterlands where we had identified the enemy presence," Zagala said, without divulging details.
At least a dozen Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s were carried out "against dynamic targets as guided by the intelligence operatives," a WestMinCom official, who knew of the military offensive but was not cleared to speak to the media, told BenarNews on condition of anonymity.
Air Force front man Lt. Col. Maynard Mariano said this was not the first combat operation for the bombers delivered by Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer in 2020.
"There were a lot of aircraft in the area," Mariano said. "The Air Force was in full support of the effort." 
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