{"id":43894,"date":"2015-03-02T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43894"},"modified":"2015-03-02T19:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:53:53","slug":"military-to-launch-sustained-campaign-vs-abu-sayyaf-biff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/02\/military-to-launch-sustained-campaign-vs-abu-sayyaf-biff\/","title":{"rendered":"Military to launch sustained campaign vs Abu Sayyaf, BIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22511\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22511\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8211;Following the recent offensives launched by the groups, the Armed Forces of the Philippines will be conducting a sustained campaign against the Abu Sayyaf and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to significantly lessen the bandits\u2019 ability to carry out violent attacks against civilians before I retire in July 2015,\u201d Catapang said in a statement issued yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how staunch their defenses are, he also added that the military troops are still reminded to minimize collateral damage during the operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can protect the civilian populace by isolating them from armed groups. We also need accurate information from the people themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the recent clashes between the army and the bandits, a total of 24 Abu Sayyaf \u00a0and two soldiers were reported to be killed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Armed Forces spokesman Col. Restituto Padilla also added that Abu Sayyaf leader, Hatib Sawadjaan was also reported to be injured.<\/p>\n<p>The said report, however still needs validation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhilippines is looking for a decisive engagement but the Abu Sayyaf do not clash with us head on. They have been avoiding us since they sustained losses during the previous engagement,\u201d Padilla said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211;Following the recent offensives launched by the groups, the Armed Forces of the Philippines will be conducting a sustained &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43894","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\/43894","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=43894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}