article_snippet.sent: Marwan had previously been falsely reported dead after a raid by Philippine security forces in 2012.
article_snippet.sent: The Philippines has been fighting an insurgency in the predominantly Muslim south for years, and last year signed a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest rebel group in the region.
article_snippet.sent: But in January a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest rebel group in the region launched a surprise raid in pursuit of Marwan at Mamapasono, in the southern province of Maguindanao.
article_snippet.sent: According to a report released by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) last month, Marwan had sworn allegiance to ISIS.
article_snippet.sent: According to a report released by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), Marwan eventually ran out of ammunition and only one of Marwan number survived, .
article_snippet.sent: a report released by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) argued that the "single-minded focus" of authorities on killing Marwan has threatened the peace agreement with the MILF, which is yet to cross the final hurdle of being passed into law by the Philippines Congress.
article_snippet.sent: The best chance the Philippines has ever had for peace may now be in jeopardy," read the report, which argued that the Mamapasano fiasco was the result of a misguided emphasis on killing Marwan.
article_snippet.sent: a report released by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) argued that, although Marwan had aided terror attacks and provided funds and equipment to MILF and Abu Sayyaf, Marwan was not "the master bomber that Marwan reputation suggested.
article_snippet.sent: Yet for the the Philippines authorities and their U.S. allies, killing Marwan had become such a priority that security forces bypassed the mechanisms that had been established to alert the MILF to such operations, for fear of word leaking to their target.
article_snippet.sent: a report released by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) quoted an anonymous Indonesian associate of Marwan's who described the Malaysian as "a little snake who has been blown up into a dragon.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Arlene Samson-Espiritu and Kathy Quiano contributed to a report released by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC).