THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) prides itself in having supposedly known about the plan of the terrorist Maute Group to swoop down on Marawi City ahead of the actual attack on May 23.
Perhaps it did. But the fact is that the bandit band affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) had been digging in for 31 days in the capital of Lanao del Sur in southern Mindanao and continuing to spring surprises on the evidently embarrassed military authorities.
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