The Amaq news agency said the Maute group controlled 80 percent of Marawi during the first day of the fighting. Authorities are looking into the possible involvement of local political leaders associated with the Maute group. He called the moderate clerics “hypocrites” for fighting their ideologies and local leaders for revealing their whereabouts to the military forces. “This is for our hypocrite ulama and local leaders… When we were in Butig, you pinpointed us. As the battles in Marawi continue, intelligence authorities admitted that the group, with their “media-savvy” members, is winning the propaganda war.

Source: Manila Times June 04, 2017 17:03 UTC