{"id":104897,"date":"2017-06-02T02:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T06:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=104897"},"modified":"2017-06-02T02:13:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T06:13:47","slug":"afp-to-probe-source-of-maute-group-weaponry-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/06\/02\/afp-to-probe-source-of-maute-group-weaponry-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP to probe source of Maute Group weaponry: spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104899\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/May-29-2017-050917JARL04-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104899\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/May-29-2017-050917JARL04-1.jpg\" alt=\"Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla. (PCOO photo)\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/May-29-2017-050917JARL04-1.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/May-29-2017-050917JARL04-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/May-29-2017-050917JARL04-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/May-29-2017-050917JARL04-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla. (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The military will trace the source of the Maute Group\u2019s high-powered firearms and ammunition once Marawi City has been cleared of terrorists, its spokesperson said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the firearms they are using against government security troops, it looks like they have stockpiled them for some time, and we have captured a lot of them in the past few days. We will know where they acquired them once our investigation starts,&#8221; Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla, said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>While he did not identify any possible supplier, Padilla said they are not discounting the possibility that the group&#8217;s weapons and ammunition are sourced from the black market or from undisciplined government security force personnel.<\/p>\n<p>He added that some of these weapons could have come from police and jail facilities that they attacked, looted and set afire after freeing the prisoners last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The military will trace the source of the Maute Group\u2019s high-powered firearms and ammunition once Marawi City has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104897","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=104897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}