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Oplan Wolverine (Hunt for Marwan); Mamasapano Operation by PNP-SAF (Jan 2015)
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Roxas says Purisima is to blame



Sec. Roxas: Purisima, pangunahing may pananagutan sa Mamasapano Clash
Date posted: Mar 13, 2015 8:01pm
Reporter: Pia Arcangel
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BOI: Oplan Exodus, a failed operation even before it all began



Board of Inquiry: Oplan Exodus, bigo na bago pa man nagsimula
Date posted: Mar 13, 2015 8:07pm
Reporter: Sandra Aguinaldo
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Army general put peace process above SAF commandos’ safety

2:05 AM | Saturday, March 14th, 2015

The commander of the Army unit in Central Mindanao put primacy to the government’s peace negotiations with Moro rebels over the lives of the Special Action Force (SAF) commandos.

This was among the telling findings of the Philippine National Police board of inquiry that looked into the bungled SAF mission to get wanted Malaysian bomb maker Zulkifli bin Hir, alias “Marwan,” and two of his trusted henchmen in Mamasapano, Maguindanao province, on Jan. 25.

One of the most compelling contents of the 128-page report was its conclusion that Maj. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, did not order artillery fire to help the SAF commandos repel the Moro rebels to protect the peace negotiations between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

“Artillery support from the 6th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army was not delivered when needed most because (Pangilinan) considered the ongoing peace process and protocols in the use of artillery,” the board said.

“Based on records, Pangilinan took it upon himself to withhold artillery fire support in consideration of the peace process and artillery fire protocols,” it said.

It said artillery fire from the local military unit “was factored in as one of the mitigating actions of the SAF” to launch the mission.

“In consideration of the peace process, the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) did not deliver the artillery fire support… and (in) the absence of compliance with the required protocol,” the report said.


Prior coordination

As part of its protocol, it said the military required “prior coordination to enable them to react and deliver the requested support.”

In one of his speeches on the Mamasapano clash, President Aquino said resigned Philippine National Police chief Alan Purisima had told him that the military was already providing artillery support to assist the SAF commandos amid the firefight with the MILF fighters after successfully taking down Marwan.

It turned out, however, that Purisima had just asked Lt. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, commander of the AFP Western Mindanao Command, for artillery fire at 7:07 a.m. of Jan. 25, or more than an hour after the gun battle between the Moro rebels and the police troopers had started.

The board said the AFP eventually sent infantry and mechanized units to help extricate the SAF commandos who were pinned down in a cornfield in Tukanalipao village.

“White phosphorous artillery rounds were fired late in the afternoon. However, by then, all of the 55th SAC (Special Action Company) lay dead except for one who was able to escape,” the board said.


Peace process uninvoked

Pangilinan could not be reached for comment on Friday, but Guerrero said that as far as he knew Pangilinan “never invoked the peace process as a reason” for not delivering the requested artillery support.

Guerrero said Pangilinan’s action was based on the “doctrinal use of artillery.”

“There must be complete information, which will be used as basis to use artillery, and this was not satisfied. It was only in the afternoon when full information was relayed. Complete information must be ensured before delivery, otherwise we would hit the SAF. If we acted without that information, we would have been at the center of the investigation now,” Guerrero said.


No instruction from Aquino

The board of inquiry said in its report that there was no “clear or decisive instruction” from the President to take the peace negotiations into account in planning the SAF mission.

It said the implications of the mission and its effects on the peace agreement and the passage of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law “should have been considered in the planning and execution” of the operation. With a report from Julie Alipala, Inquirer Mindanao



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Marwan and Usman caught in a video days before the PNP-SAF launched the manhunt



Marwan at Usman, nakunan ng video ilang araw bago sila tugisin ng PNP-SAF
Date posted: Mar 16, 2015 7:55pm
Reporter: Jun Veneracion
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PNoy ultimately responsible for Mamasapano massacre —Senate panel

(UPDATED 3:58 p.m.) President Benigno Aquino III is responsible for the operation that led to the deaths of more than 60 people, including 44 police officers of the PNP Special Action Force, in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in late January, the Senate inquiry on the incident has said in its draft report. "He is ultimately responsible for the Mamasapano mission," said Sen. Grace Poe, the chair of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs.

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May malaking pananagutan daw si PNoy sa engkwentro sa Mamasapano
Date posted: Mar 17, 2015 7:49pm
Reporter: Jam Sisante
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REASONABLE ACTIONS, FAULTS AND LESSONS
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/single/?p=8269621&t=10942309

WHO'S TO BLAME?
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/single/?p=8269738&t=10942309

FULL TEXT: Executive summary of Senate report on Mamasapano clash
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/453873/news/nation/full-text-executive-summary-of-senate-report-on-mamasapano-clash

The Board of Inquiry Mamasapano Report, March 2015
http://www.gov.ph/2015/03/13/boi-mamasapano-report-march-2015/
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PNoy hurt by BOI report


PNoy, dinamdam ang resulta ng BOI report, ayon kay Magalong
Date posted: Mar 18, 2015 10:26pm
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FVR: PNoy should say sorry



FVR: Dapat mag-sorry si PNoy sa nangyari sa misyon sa Mamasapano
Date posted: Mar 18, 2015 7:46pm
Reporter: Ruth Cabal
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New witness confirms of brutal murder of SAF44

- MILF, BIFF and PAG knew the guys were SAF but they still fired at them



Witness ng DOJ, nakita raw na kabakbakan ng SAF ang MILF, BIFF at grupong sangkot sa Maguindanao massacre
Date posted: Mar 20, 2015 8:06pm


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‘Peace process’ blamed

SAF commander to Army colonel: Man up, sir.

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2:54 AM | Thursday, April 9th, 2015

The schism between police and military officials surfaced in all its rawness on Wednesday when the Special Action Force (SAF) accused the Philippine Army of holding back artillery fire, which could have saved the lives of police commandos during the Jan. 25 Mamasapano clash, to save the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, SAF deputy director, and Supt. Michael John Mangahis, the ground commanders for the SAF Mamasapano operation, accused Col. Gener del Rosario, commander of the Army’s 1st Mechanized Brigade, and his boss, Maj. General Edmundo Pangilinan, the 6th Infantry Division chief, of using the peace process as justification for not providing ground and artillery support to the 55th and 84th SAF companies that were pinned down by Moro rebels during the clash.

Speaking at an investigation of the Mamasapano clash at the House of Representatives, Mangahis, his voice cracking and full of anger, challenged Del Rosario: “Man up, sir. Man up, sir.”

In his testimony, Mangahis claimed that he heard Del Rosario mention “peace process” while he was talking on the phone with Pangilinan around 7 a.m. on Jan. 25.

“I know they know the area very well. I don’t believe they have no assets. The real problem is their people. But I can’t say who he was talking to about the peace process,” Mangahis said.

Del Rosario did not deny he mentioned the peace process, but claimed he was talking to several people on the phone that morning and it was up to Mangahis to identify the person to whom he spoke about the peace process.


Flawed mission planning

Forty-four SAF commandos were killed by Moro rebels in that clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao province.

Seventeen guerrillas from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which has signed a peace agreement with the government, and three civilians were also killed during the daylong gun battle.

Del Rosario and Pangilinan have blamed the SAF’s flawed mission planning and lack of coordination as the main reason why artillery fire had been held back nearly 12 hours after Taliño and Mangahis went to the mechanized brigade office in Shariff Aguak on that day.


It’s the peace process

Taliño corroborated Mangahis’ testimony that the peace process was the reason for the Army’s reluctance to help the SAF.

“We requested artillery support, he (Del Rosario) was talking to General Pangilinan on the phone and asked if I could talk to him (Pangilinan declined). He (Del Rosario) told me later that his division commander (Pangilinan) refused because of the peace process and the presence of civilians in the area,” Taliño said.

Taliño disputed Del Rosario’s claim that he and Mangahis went to the 1st Mechanized Brigade’s Shariff Aguak office together. Taliño said they went separately, with Mangahis going earlier.

ACT-CIS Rep. Samuel Pagdilao, a former chief police investigator, moved that the four be compelled to undergo polygraph tests to determine who was telling the truth.

The committee deferred action on Pagdilao’s motion.

Muntinlupa Rep. Rodolfo Biazon, a former AFP chief of staff, objected to making the police and the military officers undergo lie detector tests.

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‘Peace process’ blamed

SAF commander to Army colonel: Man up, sir.

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2:54 AM | Thursday, April 9th, 2015

The schism between police and military officials surfaced in all its rawness on Wednesday when the Special Action Force (SAF) accused the Philippine Army of holding back artillery fire, which could have saved the lives of police commandos during the Jan. 25 Mamasapano clash, to save the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, SAF deputy director, and Supt. Michael John Mangahis, the ground commanders for the SAF Mamasapano operation, accused Col. Gener del Rosario, commander of the Army’s 1st Mechanized Brigade, and his boss, Maj. General Edmundo Pangilinan, the 6th Infantry Division chief, of using the peace process as justification for not providing ground and artillery support to the 55th and 84th SAF companies that were pinned down by Moro rebels during the clash.

Speaking at an investigation of the Mamasapano clash at the House of Representatives, Mangahis, his voice cracking and full of anger, challenged Del Rosario: “Man up, sir. Man up, sir.”

In his testimony, Mangahis claimed that he heard Del Rosario mention “peace process” while he was talking on the phone with Pangilinan around 7 a.m. on Jan. 25.

“I know they know the area very well. I don’t believe they have no assets. The real problem is their people. But I can’t say who he was talking to about the peace process,” Mangahis said.

Del Rosario did not deny he mentioned the peace process, but claimed he was talking to several people on the phone that morning and it was up to Mangahis to identify the person to whom he spoke about the peace process.


Flawed mission planning

Forty-four SAF commandos were killed by Moro rebels in that clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao province.

Seventeen guerrillas from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which has signed a peace agreement with the government, and three civilians were also killed during the daylong gun battle.

Del Rosario and Pangilinan have blamed the SAF’s flawed mission planning and lack of coordination as the main reason why artillery fire had been held back nearly 12 hours after Taliño and Mangahis went to the mechanized brigade office in Shariff Aguak on that day.


It’s the peace process

Taliño corroborated Mangahis’ testimony that the peace process was the reason for the Army’s reluctance to help the SAF.

“We requested artillery support, he (Del Rosario) was talking to General Pangilinan on the phone and asked if I could talk to him (Pangilinan declined). He (Del Rosario) told me later that his division commander (Pangilinan) refused because of the peace process and the presence of civilians in the area,” Taliño said.

Taliño disputed Del Rosario’s claim that he and Mangahis went to the 1st Mechanized Brigade’s Shariff Aguak office together. Taliño said they went separately, with Mangahis going earlier.

ACT-CIS Rep. Samuel Pagdilao, a former chief police investigator, moved that the four be compelled to undergo polygraph tests to determine who was telling the truth.

The committee deferred action on Pagdilao’s motion.

Muntinlupa Rep. Rodolfo Biazon, a former AFP chief of staff, objected to making the police and the military officers undergo lie detector tests.

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FLAWED MISSION PLANNING?

But is there really a perfect mission planning?

Fact is there is none. Even a high-ranking military officer claimed that what will happen in the ground will be different from the plan due to unforeseen factors or uncontrolled events.

When a Lieutenant gets killed in an ambush, do you call that a flawed mission planning?

When a team of Marines, Special Forces or Scout Rangers gets pinned down and killed like what actually happened before, do we call that a flawed mission planning?

No available support units?

Remember that across Mindanao vital units have been prepositioned even before the Mamamasapano clash to ensure support for AFP troops, such as the artillery, armored units and air support. It wont take a whole day to get these units ready. It will only take less than an hour to arm and refuel the attack choppers and light attack planes.

It will only take an hour to move the armored units and troops.

The only thing that will hinder their advance will be the RELUCTANCE to do so.

Remember the video showing a group of Moro rebels taking positions in a tree line adjacent to the location of the SAF, one of them was seen using a 50 caliber sniper rifle?

Had the attack choppers allowed to fly and strafed the enemy positions, the SAF troops could have survived. Gen. Pangilinan himself admitted that they CHOSE NOT TO ALLOW THE ATTACK CHOPPERS SO AS NOT TO DERAIL THE PEACE TALK.

SO, again they gave more importance to the BBL than the lives of the SAF men. We could have revived the peace talk anyway since the MILF had nowhere to go anyway but negotiate.

But the govt made a different move,............. always favoring the enemy at the other side of the table.

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Ex-SAF chief: P-Noy, Purisima betrayed us

Philippine Star – Thu, Apr 9, 2015

They were abandoned while performing their duty.

This sentiment was expressed by relieved Philippine National Police Special Action Force chief Director Getulio Napeñas yesterday as the House of Representatives continued its hearing on the Jan. 25 PNP-SAF raid in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

Under questioning, Napeñas lamented that he and many of his men felt President Aquino as well as police and military officials had abandoned and “betrayed” them during their mission.

“Yes, your honor, that is my opinion and feeling,” Napeñas told congressmen.

“I and many of my men feel we were left hanging because timely and effective support was not given to us in the middle of the firefight in the morning of Jan. 25,” Napeñas said in response to a question of Kabataan party-list Rep. Terry Ridon.

From 7:53 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan. 25, they repeatedly asked for artillery support for the SAF’s 55th Special Action Company, “but none came,” Napeñas said.

He specifically mentioned not only Aquino but also suspended PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima, PNP officer-in-charge Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina, Lt. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, who heads the military’s Western Mindanao Command, and Maj. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division as the officials and officers who he claimed betrayed them.

“This is the feeling of some, if not all, SAF troopers, that we were abandoned while we were performing our duty,” he said.

The former SAF commander said his repeated requests for critical artillery support were relayed to these officials.

Suspecting a leak

Yesterday’s hearing triggered another round of heated debates between the PNP and officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), particularly on the issue of reinforcements and rescue for the SAF commandos.

Napeñas and other PNP officials maintained that the assistance from the Army’s 6th Division was sluggish and was attributed to the local military officials’ prioritizing the ceasefire with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Pangilinan, however, repeatedly cited the failure of the SAF to inform them beforehand of the operation and the lack of information as to the actual location of the beleaguered police commandos.

Espina said the incident did not reflect the overall relationship between the PNP and Armed Forces.

“What happened in Mamasapano was a matter of ground decision not to share information with some elements in the AFP,” he said.

“We are very close with the PNP. We are a band of brothers. We trust each other. It is only Gen. Napeñas who does not trust the AFP,” Armed Forces chief Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang said, glaring at the relieved SAF chief.

Napeñas maintained the issue was not about lack of trust but operational security, noting that the targets, Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan and Basit Usman, have informants all over Maguindanao who could have tipped them off about the arrival of SAF troopers.

He said the plan was to coordinate with the military at the time when the operation was launched.

“It’s not about distrust. It’s a big possibility that there might be leakage,” Napeñas said.

Antipolo City Rep. Romeo Acop, a former PNP official, said he felt the issue was rivalry.

The President’s silence

Pangilinan, for his part, maintained he allowed mechanized and infantry reinforcement in the morning but not artillery fire cover because he needed to know the locations of the embattled SAF troops, enemy forces and civilian population.

He said such information was not available in the morning of the SAF operation.

Pangilinan authorized the firing of blank artillery rounds at about 6 p.m., which saved the remaining members of 84SAC.

By that time, all but one of the 36 members of 55SAC had been wiped out in an intense eight-hour gun battle with guerrillas belonging to the MILF.

The 55SAC was to serve as blocking force of 84SAC, the 38-member team that assaulted the hideout of Marwan.

The team killed Marwan but lost nine men in ensuing daylong clashes with members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, an MILF breakaway group.

Two other targets, Amin Baco, alias Jihad, and Usman, escaped.

Napeñas was also asked about SAF’s so-called time-on-target coordination with the AFP in its Mamasapano operation, meaning that it would inform the military in Maguindanao of its mission once underway and not before “so it would not be compromised.”

He said they discussed their coordination plan with the President on Jan. 9 in Malacañang in view of the failure of their previous joint operations with the military.

Napeñas said the President did not make any comment, which he took to mean Aquino’s approval of their proposal that the AFP would be informed time on target.

Deputy Speaker and Isabela Rep. Giorgidi Aggabao said the report of the PNP’s Board of Inquiry (BOI) contained Napeñas’ version of the meeting in Malacañang and his interpretation of the President’s silence as approval of their time-on-target coordination plan but does not include Aquino’s version.

“I think this is dangerous because the BOI report could be used as evidence in future court proceedings. For all we know, the President’s silence meant no, instead of yes, or he was weighing his answer,” he said.

Earlier, Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II clarified Napeñas’ reading of Aquino’s silence was contrary to the President’s “overt statements” that he ordered Purisima and the then SAF chief to coordinate with the military and to inform Espina.

There were at least three meetings in Malacañang with Aquino on SAF’s efforts to get its three terrorist targets. These were held between November last year and January this year.

Purisima, Napeñas and PNP intelligence chief Sr. Supt. Fernando Mendez attended the meetings. Supt. Raymund Train, who led the 38-member SAF team that assaulted Marwan’s hideout, was present in one briefing.

In an affidavit given to the BOI, Train said Aquino expressed anger over the failure of previous SAF operations to get its targets.

He said they went to Malacañang a few days after an operation launched in November to take down Marwan and his associates “was aborted due to mobility problem – mode of insertion was not doable.”

“The President was quite disappointed and I recall him saying, ‘Haste makes waste, you did not do your homework!’” he said.

After five or six failed operations to catch their terrorist targets, SAF commandos made a last-ditch effort to get them on Jan. 25 in Mamasapano.

This time, they succeeded. They killed Marwan, but lost 44 men.

Truth has two versions

The hearings on the Mamasapano incident had revealed “two versions of the truth,” according to Rep. Samuel Pagdilao of party-list ACT-CIS.

Pagdilao, a former police official, said the resource persons from the PNP and the AFP were giving the joint House panel their respective but “conflicting versions of the truth.”

To determine which side is truthful in its statements, Pagdilao proposed that the officers be subjected to a polygraph or lie detector test.

Dasmariñas City Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr., however, opposed the proposal, saying it’s bad policy.

He said the PNP and AFP officers have been sworn to tell the truth and that appropriate penalties could be imposed on them if they were found to be lying.

Pagdilao made the lie detector test proposal after two SAF officers denied the statement of Col. Gener del Rosario, commander of the Army’s 1st Mechanized Brigade in Maguindanao, that the former had no clear indication of the locations of embattled SAF teams when they requested for artillery support from the AFP.

Del Rosario said he asked Chief Supt. Noli Taliño and Supt. John Michael Mangahis where their beleaguered commandos were located.

“They could not provide us with a clear answer. They even tried to call someone on their mobile phones,” he said.

Taliño and Mangahis, however, said they were even bringing with them a map showing the locations of two SAF teams that had been engaged by Muslim guerrillas and a few huts occupied presumably by civilians.

Mangahis said even if the specific spots where the gunfights were ongoing were not clear to Del Rosario, the latter could have verified them with his informants in the areas of engagement.

“They have many informants there. It’s not as if they are new in those areas,” he said.

“Man up, sir, man up,” Mangahis told Del Rosario.

Taliño said the Army officer informed them that his senior officer, Pangilinan, disallowed artillery fire support “due to the peace process with the MILF.”

Pangilinan was former joint chairman of the government-MILF ceasefire committee.

Acop, another former PNP officer like Pagdilao, called Del Rosario’s attention to the report of the BOI that he had actually recommended artillery fire support for the embattled SAF teams at about 11 a.m. on Jan. 25.

Acop quoted the Army officer as saying there were no civilians in the engagement area at the time, and that it looked like an “open space.”

For his part, Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares said the delayed artillery support was one of “telltale signs” that President Aquino ordered the AFP to stand down in consideration of the peace process with the MILF.

Administration officials have denied the President issued such an order.

Buhay party-list Rep. Joselito Atienza said the investigation being conducted by the House is scripted and designed to whitewash the massacre of the 44 policemen by the MILF and BIFF.

Atienza said he did not attend yesterday’s hearing “because I don’t believe that it will bear fruits. It’s politics. It’s a numbers game.” – With Jess Diaz, Jose Rodel Clapano

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Mamasapano tragedy result of ‘greed,’ says Duterte

By: Nestor Corrales
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INQUIRER.net
05:49 PM August 10th, 2016

The bloody Mamasapano operation in 2015 was the result of “greed” of running after the $5-million bounty for Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir or “Marwan,” President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday.

“Sa Mamasapano, it was a question of greed—kwarta. Puro sila ano, sa SAF, somebody directing them para makuha nila reward $5 million,” Duterte said in a speech before the troops at the 1st Infantry Division in Zamboanga del Sur.

The President vowed there would not be a repeat of the antiterror operation under his term.

“These are the things na dili mahitabo sa akong panahon. Dili ko musugot anang tinorpe na desisyon. It’s very stupid. Maasahan na nila iyan. Dili ko musugot ug in-ana (These are the things that will not happen during my term. I will not allow another stupid decision. It’s very stupid. That I can assure them. I will not allow it to happen),” he said.

In January 2015, 44 elite cops and several civilians died in an encounter involving the Special Action Force of the Philippine National Police, the Moro Islamic Liberation and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

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