{"id":104489,"date":"2017-05-29T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=104489"},"modified":"2017-05-29T19:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:41:14","slug":"afp-claims-to-foil-maute-group-attempt-to-burn-down-marawi-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/29\/afp-claims-to-foil-maute-group-attempt-to-burn-down-marawi-city\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP claims to foil Maute Group attempt to burn down Marawi City"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104478\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ph_locator_lanao_del_sur_marawi-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104478\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ph_locator_lanao_del_sur_marawi-2-300x250.png\" alt=\"\u201cThe terrorist Maute-ISIS Group was surprised by raiding security forces in that safehouse in Brgy. Basak Malutlut, Marawi occupied by Isnilon Hapilon, the taunted &quot;Amir&quot; of ISIS in the Philippines,\u201d said AFP chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o on Monday.(Photo: Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) \/ Wikipedia)\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe terrorist Maute-ISIS Group was surprised by raiding security forces in that safehouse in Brgy. Basak Malutlut, Marawi occupied by Isnilon Hapilon, the taunted &#8220;Amir&#8221; of ISIS in the Philippines,\u201d said AFP chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o on Monday.(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) \/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014 Despite stiff fighting going with Maute Group terrorists, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Monday claimed that its initial operations against the lawless elements last May 23 has prevented the bandits from its plan of setting Marawi City ablaze during Ramadhan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe terrorist Maute-ISIS Group was surprised by raiding security forces in that safehouse in Brgy. Basak Malutlut, Marawi occupied by Isnilon Hapilon, the taunted &#8220;Amir&#8221; of ISIS in the Philippines,\u201d said AFP chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>These and much other significant information were obtained from a very reliable source in the continuing clearing operations in Marawi City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHence, what others termed to be a \u2018botched raid\u2019 turned out to be an \u2018abortive raid\u2019 that prevented what could have been carnage of an Islamic City in two weeks yet,&#8221; said AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo.<\/p>\n<p>Killed in the ongoing fighting were 61 Maute Group members and 15 soldiers and three police officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This explains why at the time of the raid, the terrorist group was able to pull out \u2014 almost instantaneously and simultaneously \u2014 counter actions in various locations in the city to distract the focus of the raid,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014 Despite stiff fighting going with Maute Group terrorists, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Monday claimed that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3243,12048,16762],"class_list":["post-104489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-afp","tag-marawi-city","tag-maute-group","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}