{"id":43614,"date":"2015-02-26T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43614"},"modified":"2015-02-26T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T11:25:14","slug":"boi-up-to-800-milf-fought-in-mamasapano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/26\/boi-up-to-800-milf-fought-in-mamasapano\/","title":{"rendered":"BOI: Up to 800 MILF fought in Mamasapano"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19755\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19755\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"A Bangsamoro militant in training (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bangsamoro militant in training (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; As many as 800 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters fought against 72 police commandos during the Mamasapano incident in Maguindanao, according to the head of\u00a0police\u2019s Board of Inquiry (BOI).<\/p>\n<p>At least three base commands of MILF: the 118th, 105th and 106th were confirmed to be involved in the incident by\u00a0Director Benjamin Magalong of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in a Philippine Daily Inquirer Report.<\/p>\n<p>He added in the same report that MILF residents rushed to the area and joined the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Other reports also indicated that the SAF members were surrounded by combined forces of the\u00a0MILF and the outlaw Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)<\/p>\n<p>SAF commander Director Getulio Nape\u00f1as also confirmed during earlier Senate hearings that his men were outnumbered.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter killed a total of 44 members of the\u00a0elite Special Action Force (SAF),\u00a0along with 18 rebels and five civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope we can talk directly to an MILF field commander so we can also get their side,\u201d Magalong said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; As many as 800 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters fought against 72 police commandos during the Mamasapano &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614","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=43614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}