{"id":34934,"date":"2014-12-12T02:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34934"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T04:54:22","slug":"isis-still-not-in-phl-un-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/12\/isis-still-not-in-phl-un-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS still not in PHL &#8212; UN expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35049\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ISIS-ISIL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35049\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ISIS-ISIL.jpg\" alt=\"ISIL insurgents (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ISIS-ISIL.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ISIS-ISIL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ISIS-ISIL-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ISIL insurgents (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Amid reports of recruitment in southern Philippines, an expert of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED) on Thursday said that there is still no evidence that Jihadist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has reached the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>However, UNCTED Executive Director John Paul LaBorde said that there are indications that the terror group is extending to the east.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence that they are in the Philippines,\u201d LaBorde said in a press conference at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>LaBorde said that with the series of counter-terrorism operations against ISIS, the group has lost fighters prompting it to expand to the east to recruit more members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders of this organization want to expand to the east. Some indications say that they are trying to expand to the east,\u201d LaBorde said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will try to get [in] as much as they can,\u201d he said by recruiting fighters and providing financial support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is possible that one day they will come to our country,\u201d LaBorde added.<\/p>\n<p>The UN expert said that it is important to alert the civil society to be vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dImprove legislation to complement terrorism efforts of the government and dry up financial resources of suspected terrorist cells in the country,\u201d LaBorde said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Amid reports of recruitment in southern Philippines, an expert of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED) on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-perfecto-t-raymundo-jr","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34934","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}