{"id":35082,"date":"2014-12-12T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35082"},"modified":"2014-12-12T23:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:38:51","slug":"un-official-says-philippines-other-countries-can-take-more-steps-vs-islamic-state-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/12\/un-official-says-philippines-other-countries-can-take-more-steps-vs-islamic-state-group\/","title":{"rendered":"UN official says Philippines, other countries can take more steps vs. Islamic State group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35083\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35083\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181.jpg\" alt=\"journalistanbul \/ Shutterstock.com\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">journalistanbul \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014A U.N. counterterrorism official said Thursday there was no evidence that Islamic State militants have gained a foothold in the Philippines, where Muslim rebels are active, but added that the country can take more steps to help fight a group that has vowed to expand its reach.<\/p>\n<p>Filipinos belonging to two small but violent Muslim insurgent groups in the country\u2019s south, including the al-Qaida-inspired Abu Sayyaf, have publicly vowed support to the Islamic State group, sparking concerns among Philippine security officials. There have been reports of Filipinos sneaking into Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State group, but the military and police say there\u2019s have found no proof of that after an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence that they are in the Philippines,\u201d Jean-Paul Laborde of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate told a news conference in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Philippines and other countries should continue to shield their territories from the terrorists, including by strengthening laws and regulations to prevent local Muslim communities from being targeted for recruitment and to deprive the militants of financial resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will try to get as much as they can in terms of foreign terrorist fighters, in terms of finance, in terms of everything, so it\u2019s possible that, one day, they will come to your country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Laborde discussed counterterrorism steps with Philippine officials and praised the government for establishing an anti-terrorism council to oversee a battle against extremists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014A U.N. counterterrorism official said Thursday there was no evidence that Islamic State militants have gained a foothold in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35082","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=35082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}