Philippines Charges Islamic State-Linked Militants With Kidnapping, Beheading
 

Philippines Charges Islamic State-Linked Militants With Kidnapping, Beheading
By Jake Maxwell Watts - Biography@jmwatts - Jan. 30, 2018 7:02 a.m. ET
RE: https://www.wsj.com/articles/philipp...ing-1517313748

Note: One of the accused is sought by the U.S. for allegedly funding a failed plot to bomb New York in 2016

More than 50 members of an Islamic State-linked militant group that occupied and laid waste to the southern Philippines city of Marawi were charged with kidnapping and murder in one of the country’s largest mass indictments of alleged terror groups.

The charges, though not in relation to the Marawi occupation itself, referred to crimes allegedly committed a year before, at a time when Maute group was growing in prominence and attracting funding from Islamic State which was then later used to finance the assult.