{"id":11745,"date":"2013-03-05T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2013\/03\/malaysia-unleashes-military-on-filipino-invaders\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:43:10","slug":"malaysia-unleashes-military-on-filipino-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/malaysia-unleashes-military-on-filipino-invaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Unleashes Military on Filipino Invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, Malaysia&#8217;s national police chief said more than nine hours after the attack began that &#8220;mopping up&#8221; operations had yet to find any dead militants, and expressed fears that at least some of them might have slipped away.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Najib Razak said he had no choice but to unleash the military to try to end Malaysia&#8217;s biggest security crisis in years after the interlopers refused to surrender and 27 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>A day after the Philippines called for restraint, Malaysia launched a dawn assault on the estimated 100-300 gunmen, who invaded to claim Malaysian territory on behalf of a former Philippine sultanate.<\/p>\n<p>Fighter jets bombed the standoff village of Tanduo in Sabah state on the northern tip of Borneo island, followed by a ground assault by troops. The area is set amid vast oil-palm plantations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The longer this invasion lasts, it is clear to the authorities that the invaders do not intend to leave Sabah,&#8221; Najib said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal police chief Ismail Omar told reporters in an afternoon press conference near the standoff site that soldiers were mopping up across a wide area of hilly plantation country but had yet to find any dead militants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have instructed my commanders to be on alert because we believe the enemies are still out there,&#8221; Ismail said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We of course hope that they have not escaped,&#8221; he said, providing few other details. However, he said Malaysian forces had suffered no casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lahad%20datu%20serangan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/aberita16\/lahad%20datu%20serangan.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px;\" \/>FELDA SAHABAT, Malaysia &#8211; Malaysia&#8217;s military on Tuesday launched a fierce assault including jet fighters on up to 300 Filipino intruders after a deadly three-week standoff, as their leader vowed they would fight to the death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":11744,"alt_text":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/aberita16\/lahad%20datu%20serangan.jpg","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":530,"height":347,"file":"2013\/03\/lahad datu serangan.jpg","filesize":34122,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":11745,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lahad datu serangan.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}