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    Default OEF Philippines (2012 onwards)

    U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Philippines, 2001–2014


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    Moderator adds: this SWJ Blog post has been copied here, in part as an update, but also as the exchange there supplements this thread.
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    Found while looking for something else, from 2013 -

    Zamboanga siege: Tales from the combat zone

    One year since the bloody siege of Zamboanga City, Rappler sits down with soldiers of the Light Reaction Battalion who have stories to tell and lessons to share

    http://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/688...tion-battalion

    Muslim Rebels Attack Philippine Towns
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    Default TSG Intel Brief: The Philippines Battles Abu Sayyaf

    TSG Intel Brief: The Philippines Battles Abu Sayyaf

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    TSG Intel Brief: The Philippines Battles Abu Sayyaf

    I have copied the one comment made via Dave Maxwell, from a Filipino contact:
    I have a great deal of respect for Ali Soufan and the Soufan Group. Their report is accurate. I remain concerned about the acts of the Abu Sayyaf Group. BUT I temper that with some context. They are vastly reduced in size of actual hard members. They still get wide assistance from family and relationship based ''supporters.'' Those people are not necessarily ideological supporters but aid in some way due to social obligations. The ASG is largely confined to Basilan and Jolo. They don't have core reach the way they used to have. None of the groups in that region do. As the central government has improved schools, elections, roads to markets, and other governance issues the support for these people has withered. ASG's claim of allegiance to Daesh is still unclear as to scope, meaning and impact. Which way does money flow? We're not really sure. What fighters have gone to,Stria etc for training? We're not clear. Soufan raises good points, but I'm not raising my blood pressure. Yet.
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    Default ISIS's Alarming Inroads in the Southern Philippines

    ISIS's Alarming Inroads in the Southern Philippines

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    Default Canadian hostage beheaded by Islamist militants

    A sad update:
    Canadian hostage John Ridsdel, a former mining executive, has been killed by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, a Canadian government official has confirmed.
    (At the end) Abu Sayyaf is also holding other foreigners, including one from the Netherlands, one from Japan, four Malaysians and 14 Indonesian tugboat crew.
    Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...in-philippines
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    Default Still here and one more hostage executed

    A Canadian hostage held by the militant group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines has been killed, media reports say. Robert Hall was kidnapped in September along with three other hostages from Canada, the Philippines and Norway.Mr Hall was killed on Monday after a deadline for a ransom expired...It is still holding several captives, including a Dutch birdwatcher taken in 2012.
    Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36517524
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    Philippine president blames US for Middle East violence

    The new Philippine president blamed U.S. intervention for the bloody conflicts in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries in his latest criticism of Manila's closest security ally.
    The new President appears ready to walk his own path. Very direct, and not relying on conventional wisdom. In some ways he seems to have some pragmatic ideas, and in other areas he appears to be grasping at straws. It could be another interesting few years in the Philippines.

    They forced their way to Iraq ... look at Iraq now, look what happened to Libya, look what happened to Syria," he told the Muslim community in southern Davao city in a ceremony marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. "People are being annihilated there including children."

    The former Davao mayor has said he would be a leftist president who would chart a foreign policy not dependent on the United States.

    He has pointed out the benefits of nurturing friendly relations with Beijing, including a Chinese offer of financing railway projects in the Philippines. The country has had frosty ties with China under Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, who bolstered security ties with the U.S. to deter China's assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea.

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    Default Philippines Peace Process: Duterte Playing For High Stakes

    Philippines Peace Process: Duterte Playing For High Stakes

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    Default Philippine's President Duterte to US Troops: Leave Mindanao or Abus Will Kill You

    Philippine's President Duterte to US Troops: Leave Mindanao or Abus Will Kill You

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    (CNN)The Philippines top diplomat has told a forum in Washington that his country "cannot forever be the little brown brothers of America."
    Philippines Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay made the comments after a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington Thursday, during which he described the US relationship with the Philippines as cooperative and symbiotic.
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/asia/l...hilippines-us/
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    Default Behind the rhetoric

    A critical commentary on the 'Panic about IS in the Philippines', with the Abu Sayyaf group being the focus:https://theconversation.com/panic-about-is-in-the-philippines-masks-a-very-real-war-in-the-country-65196?

    "More of the same" the author concludes:
    For now, the spectre of IS in South-East Asia is a case of an awful lot of smoke and very little fire. And as Duterte joins in the hyperbole, many of the Philippines’ same old mistakes are already being repeated.
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    Default Philippine president wants U.S. troops out of his country

    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, during a visit to Japan, told Japanese and Philippine business leaders Wednesday that he wants foreign troops -- read U.S. troops -- out of his country, possibly within two years.
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    MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen attacked a Vietnamese cargo ship off the Philippines' southern tip, killing a Vietnamese crewman and abducting six others including the vessel's captain, the Philippine coast guard and the ship's owner said Monday.
    Coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said the Vietnamese coast guard reported that the MV Giang Hai, with 17 crewmen on board, was attacked by pirates Sunday night about 20 miles (31 kilometers) north of Pearl Bank in Tawi-Tawi, the Philippines' southernmost province.
    Personnel of the Philippine coast guard, police and marines found the ship had drifted near the province's Baguan Island. Upon boarding the vessel, they found 10 Vietnamese sailors alive and one dead.

    Pham Van Hien, head of the safety department of Pham Hai shipping company, the owner of the cargo ship based in Vietnam's northern port city of Hai Phong, said the captain was among those abducted. The attack occurred while the vessel was transporting 4,500 tons of cement from Indonesia to the Philippines, he said.
    The gunmen destroyed some of the ship's equipment, but the 10 remaining crew members managed to sail the ship, Hien said.
    He said the company had informed the IMB Piracy Reporting Center in Malaysia to seek its help in securing the return of the kidnapped crew members.
    Balilo said pursuit operations are underway, but the location of the abducted crewmen and the identity of the attackers remain unknown.
    Abu Sayyaf militants and allied gunmen are suspected of being behind previous sea assaults in the area, including an attack last November on another Vietnamese cargo ship whose captain and five crewmen were also kidnapped. They are believed to be held by the militants in the southern province of Sulu, where the kidnappers are holding at least 20 foreign and local hostages in different jungle locations.
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    Default One of the riskiest regions in the maritime world

    Piracy is a perennial problem in the waters around the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia known as the Sulu-Celebes Sea; with irregular Western media reports on kidnappings. This BBC report is an update, with a focus on multilateral action or inaction.


    Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39252503
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    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte cut short a visit to Russia and imposed martial law on the island of Mindanao on Tuesday after a fierce bout of fighting erupted during a raid by security forces at a hideout of Islamic State-linked militants.
    Two soldiers and a policeman were killed and 12 wounded amid chaos in Marawi, a predominantly Muslim city of about 200,000 people, where members of the Maute militant group took control of buildings and set fire to a school, a church and a detention facility.
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    Default Philippines Struggles to Suppress ISIS-Linked Rebels as Foreign Fighters Found

    Philippines Struggles to Suppress ISIS-Linked Rebels as Foreign Fighters Found

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    Philippines Struggles to Suppress ISIS-Linked Rebels as Foreign Fighters Found

    A SWJ Blog link to a WSJ report on the fighting with an ISIS affiliate in Marawi; which has several comments on veteran observers and our own local observer Dayuhan - worth a read.
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    Default Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force In Philippines Ended Too Soon, Mattis Says

    Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force In Philippines Ended Too Soon, Mattis Says

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    Default Interview With COL David Maxwell on US Special Operations Troops Advising Philippines

    Interview With COL David Maxwell on US Special Operations Troops Advising Philippines Forces on Insurgents

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