Mamasapano clash

Mamasapano clash
Part of South Philippines insurgency and Global War on Terrorism
Date January 25, 2015 Location Tukanalipao, Mamasapano Maguindanao, Philippines Result Pyrrhic government victory
Belligerents
Philippines Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission Philippine National Police Special Action Force  United States (intelligence, alleged ground troops support) Armed Forces of the Philippines WESTMINCOM 6th Infantry Division Federal Bureau of Investigation (Alleged)	Jemaah Islamiyah-linked militants Moro Islamic Liberation Front Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters Private militias (allegedly)
Commanders and leaders
Benigno Aquino III Paquito Ochoa, Jr. Alan Purisima Getulio Napeñas Rustico O. Guerrero Edmundo Pangilinan	Zulkifli Abdhir  † Abdul Basit Usman Amin Baco Ustadz Zacaria Guma Ameril Umbra Kato Bahnarin Ampatuan (allegedly)
Units involved
SAF: 9 units 84th Special Action Company (Seaborne) 41st 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th, and 55th Special Action Companies (SAC) Intelligence, Surveillance, Target, Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) unit 1st and 4th Special Action Battalion (SAB) Light Armor Unit (LAU) Command Group and Service Support	2 bomb experts 108 and 105 Base Command BIFF 1st Brigade
Strength
392 84SAC (Seaborne):38 41SAC: 44 42SAC: 45 43SAC: 42 44SAC: 43 45SAC: 44 55SAC: 36 ISTAR: 13 1SAB: 44 4SAB: 14 LAU: 10 Command/Service Support: 19	Undetermined
Casualties and losses
SAF:44 total: 84SAC (Seaborne):9 killed 14 wounded 55SAC:35 killed and the company eradicated with only 1 survivor	Zulkifli bin Hir also known as Marwan as confirmed by the FBI MILF and BIFF:18 (MILF claim)
Civilian Casualties at least 1 killed and 1 injured(media report) at least 7 killed and 3 injured(Suara Bangsamoro claim)

Operation Exodus Oplan Exodus
Part of the South Philippines insurgency
Location	Maguindanao, Philippines
Planned	As early as 2014
Planned by	Alan Purisima and Getulio Napeñas of Philippine National Police-Special Action Force Federal Bureau of Investigation (allegedly)
Target	Four nipa huts were searched to arrest Zulkifli Abdhir and Abdul Basit Usman
Date	03:00 – (PST)
Executed by	Philippine National Police-Special Action Force United States Army Special Forces (allegedly) Federal Bureau of Investigation (allegedly)
Outcome	Zulkifli Abdhir Killed

 Philippines

SAF:44 total:

The Mamasapano clash was an incident that occurred during a police operation, codenamed Oplan Exodus, which took place on Sunday, January 25, 2015, at Tukanalipao, Mamasapano, Maguindanao, by Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) (allegedly joined by United States Army Special Forces) against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The operation was intended to capture or kill wanted Malaysian terrorist and bomb-maker Zulkifli Abdhir and other Malaysian terrorists or high-ranking members of the BIFF.

Originally a mission to serve arrest warrants for high-ranking terrorists, it led to the deaths of 44 members of SAF, 18 from MILF and BIFF, and five civilians, and the death of Zulkifli Abdhir confirmed by the FBI and the PNP at 6:30 p.m. of February 4, 2015, due to a matching DNA result. He was one of FBI's most wanted terrorists. Getulio Napeñas, the relieved SAF commander, estimates about 250 deaths from his assumption that each SAF snipers may have taken down at least 20 opponents from the combined MILF, BIFF, and private militias during the encounter although this was not confirmed and was met with skepticism since aside from the fact that there was no actual body count, there is no acceptable level of evidence to prove his claim. Napenas' estimate was also debunked by the MILF and by the local government of Mamasapano.

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