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2020-07-31 Southeast Asia
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Philippine Army: A Dozen BIFF Militants Killed in Maguindanao Clash
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[BenarNews] At least 12 suspected turbans and two government troops were killed during a major firefight in the southern Philippines on Wednesday as the military hunted for a big shot 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 group, officials said.
At least 13 soldiers were maimed on the government side, including one who was at death's door at a military hospital, a Philippine Army front man said.
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The two-hour-long shootout with suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
bad boy group broke out as the army’s 57th Infantry Battalion launched an operation in marshlands near Datu Salibo, a town in Maguindanao province, officials said. The troops were searching for Ustadz Karialian, a BIFF commander also known as Imam Minimbang.
"Two soldiers, 10 enemy KIA [Killed in Action]," Lt. Col. Anhouvic Atilano, the front man for the Army’s 6th Division, told BenarNews when asked for information about the corpse count from Wednesday’s clash.
The shootout was the deadliest clash in the south since mid-April, when 11 Army soldiers died and 14 others were maimed in a gunbattle with 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...
turbans on Jolo Island.
"We used two helicopter gunships and artillery fire to drive away the rebels because they have so many reinforcements," Atilano said, referring to the incident in Datu Salibo.
The target of the operation there, Karialan, was not among the enemy fatalities, Atilano said, citing an intelligence report from the field.
The latest incident occurred weeks after President Rodrigo Duterte signed a new anti-terrorism law aimed at boosting the law enforcement fight against turbans in the south. Human rights groups and activists, however, have criticized some of the provisions of the new law as having a potentially chilling effect on free speech. They say the government could use it to go after critics of the Duterte administration.
The BIFF is a breakaway faction of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), at one time the country’s leading separatist group, which signed a peace pact with the Philippine government to settle for an autonomous region in the south.
The BIFF is also one of several groups in the volatile southern Philippines that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) hard boy group.
Despite that pledge BIFF guerrillas did not join other pro-IS turbans in taking over the southern city of Marawi three years ago. The five-month siege and an ensuing battle with government forces killed an estimated 1,200 enemy combatants, soldiers, and civilians and left the city in ruins. 
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