...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....
murderous Moslem group and captured another during a predawn encounter Friday on the island of Mindanao, the military said.
Two improvised bombs (IED) were recovered following the clash with Daulah Islamiyah (DI) terror group members in the village of Dicalungan in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province, a military official said.
Lt. Gen. Alfredo Rosario Jr., commander of Western Mindanao Command, said troops from the 40th Infantry Battalion clashed with the DI-Hassan Group whose leader is known as "Alpha King" early Friday after tracking the group’s location.
"The faceless myrmidons are desperate enough to show their force to gain popular support from the civil society," Rosario said. "Rest assured that we will stop them from creating havoc on peaceful communities.
"The firefight resulted in one enemy killed and another captured," Rosario said while noting other members escaped.
The DI is the Philippine name for the Islamic State. It has links to Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
, the dominant terrorist group in the south whose members have been blamed for suicide kabooms, beheadings of kidnap victims and a five-month siege of the city of Marawi in 2017.
The dead man was identified as Khamhed Akan Kambal alias Meds, a known DI Hassan Group bomber, while the captured suspect was identified as Nasrudin Sali Blah, 22, Rosario said. The military confirmed that Kambal’s body was turned over to village officials to allow for burial following Islamic rites.
After the clash, troops recovered the two IEDs, including one with 105 mm howitzer round as its main charge, bomb components consisting of several pieces of 9-volt batteries, nine cellphones, a remote control and a .45-caliber pistol.
The military and police said the howitzer shell could be unwent
kaboom!artillery fired in a previous clash with holy warriors.