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| Pentagon: Counter-Extremist Efforts Have Hardly Eroded IS in Philippines |
| 2020-08-16 |
| [BenarNews] Efforts to combat militancy in the Philippines seem to have made no substantial dent against 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -linked groups since the United States launched a multi-million-dollar program in 2017 to back Manila’s counter-extremist activities, the Pentagon said in a new report. The regional branch of Islamic State and associated turban groups in the southern Mindanao region remain about the same in size and in strength, the report said. And in recent months, the Philippine IS affiliate tried to take advantage of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 "These groups continue to operate in the southern Philippines where separatist groups and hard boy groups have existed for decades. [W]e have seen little progress in improving the economic, social, and political conditions in that part of the country." Ding ding ding. These Muslims were acting up before the US occupation in 1898. Not gonna change now. Especially with the government in Manila who neglects them. The whole thing is none of our beeswax. |
| Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948 2020-08-16 15:35 |
| #2 Bureaucrats everywhere think the same. If they couldn't operate without strict rules and regs governing their organization they think that no one else can either. Gotta have org charts and meetings or you don't exist. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-08-16 07:41 |
| #1 COIN is pretty much a bad joke everywhere at this point. Some people never learn. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-16 02:59 |