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Oplan Wolverine (Hunt for Marwan); Mamasapano Operation by PNP-SAF (Jan 2015)
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Sacked PNP-SAF chief: Hunt for terror suspects to fail if coordinated with MILF

Coordination with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on the operation against suspected terrorists Zulkifli bin Hir alias Commander Marwan and Abdul Bassit Usman had a high risk of getting leaked and would have jeopardized the mission, the recently relieved head of the PNP-Special Action Force told GMA News on Wednesday.

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"'Yung coordination with MILF—kung nabubuhay tayo sa katotohanan—hindi ko masabi na magiging successful ang operation kung makikipag-coordinate tayo sa MILF," ex-SAF director Getulio Pascua Napeñas said in an interview on GMA News TV's State of the Nation with Jessica Soho.

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Napeñas also said that they didn't coordinate with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and other troops in the area to prevent the actionable intelligence they got from leaking, which can thwart their plans.

"'Yun ang binabalanse ng isang commander, it's about coordination and 'yung operation security na hindi mag-leak 'yung intelligence o 'yung impormasyaon para sa ganoon maging successful ang ating operation," he also said.

He added that the targets were very well-connected.

"Itong mga hinanahabol natin na mga taong ito, napakataas nung kanilang connection at saka 'yung mga kakilala o mga network na sinasabi kaya't sa tagal-tagal na panahon nila dito hindi sila nakukuha because of those kinds of connections na meron sila," he said.

Napeñas also said that although the operation was risky, they haD to do it for the safety of the people, especially in Central Mindanao where bombings happen often.

"Risky ko po talaga ang operation na 'yan. Pero para sa taumbayan, sa dami ng bomba na sumasabog--halos araw-araw na ata diyan sa Zamboanga o diyan sa Central Mindanao--napakahirap tanggapin para sa mga taong nagseserbisyo sa bayan na katahimikan ang gusto nila," he added.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/419209/news/nation/sacked-pnp-saf-chief-hunt-for-terror-suspects-to-fail-if-coordinated-with-milf
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"Marwan is dead" says MILF's Al Haj Murad


As per news report awhile ago, Al Haj Murad confirmed the death of Marwan.


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Marwan is dead, says wife of Abu Sayyaf leader Janjalani

By: DJ Sta. Ana, News5
January 30, 2015 6:04 PM

An intercepted communication from the wife of the late Abu Sayyaf Group founder Khadaffy Janjalani is one of the reported "assets" the Philippine government has to confirm that terrorist bomb maker and trainor Zulkifli Bin Hir alias Marwan is dead.

The PNP SAF assault team had wanted to capture Marwan alive when they raided his hideout in Mamapasano, Maguindanao last January 25. 2015.

The PNP SAF commandos, however, were forced to kill him when he grabbed a gun and opened fire on them
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An after-action report prepared by the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, a copy of which was shown to News5, stated that instead of giving up peacefully, Marwan "resisted and engaged" the PNP SAF in a shootout "that resulted in his death."

The after-action report confirmed earlier information that the PNP SAF were going to bring Marwan's body with them, but the initial volley of gunfire had caught the attention of people in the area.

Forced to make a hasty exit and unable to bring Marwan's body along, the PNP SAF took photos and DNA samples - cutting off a finger, according to reports.

Another government intelligence asset claimed that Marwan's body was reportedly buried in a nearby barangay that is said to be under the control of a certain Ali Tambako, who is linked to the Justice for Islam Movement.


Janjalani wife tells kin: Marwan is dead

A third government intelligence asset disclosed that hours after the operation, Joromee Dongon, wife of the late Abu Sayyaf Group founder Khadafy Janjalani, called up her relatives to tell tham that Marwan was killed in his Maguindanao safe house.

At the time of the raid, Marwan had two bodyguards with him, one of them a Malaysian. Both bodyguards were wounded during the firefight and fled.

The after-action report described the SAF mission as a law enforcement operation, and said intelligence agencies have been tracking Marwan as far back as October 2013. The latest intelligence report placed his location in Barangay Pidsandawon, Mamasapano in Maguindanao. Based on this information, according to the after-action report, a complete intelligence package was drawn up to support the operation.

The complete intelligence package is widely believed to include local assets on the grounds, electronic intelligence and surveillance.

A Kidapawan City Regional Trial Court had issued an arrest warrant for Marwan in 2007 for murder, multiple frustrated murder and multiple attempted murder in connection with several bombing incidents in Mindanao.

In 2003 the US government placed Marwan on a terrorist watchlist.

After news of the deaths of 44 SAF men in the Jan. 25 mission in Mamasapano broke, President Aquino pointed out that the elite police unit was doing its duty to enforce a judicial order to arrest Marwan and Usman, for whom warrants were outstanding from local courts.

http://www.interaksyon.com/article/104091/marwan-is-dead---abu-sayyaf-leader-janjalanis-wife
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Noy to MILF: Name SAF killers, show sincerity

By Aurea Calica (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 29, 2015 - 12:00am


In a nationally televised address, the President said that at the minimum, the MILF must identify those who were involved in the slaughter of 44 members of the police Special Action Force (SAF) who were trying to arrest two high-value terrorists last Sunday in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

Calling the SAF men “heroes,” the President also said the guns and personal belongings of the dead must be returned.

The MILF must also “step aside” as government forces continue to hunt down Malaysian Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) bomb maker Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, and Filipino Abdul Basit Usman, Aquino said, even as he noted that Marwan might have been killed by the SAF team.

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He expressed confidence that the MILF “is studying how to demonstrate their sincerity in the peace process.”

The President asked the nation to suspend judgment until all the facts have been established by both the Philippine National Police and a probe team formed by the MILF.

“I expect that in the soonest possible time, there will be more concrete proof of cooperation on the part of the MILF to go after peace, go after the truth and making those guilty responsible,” Aquino said in his speech delivered in Filipino.

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Answering a question after his speech, the President said that since the MILF has areas under its control in Maguindanao, its men would have to “step aside to make the operations” against Usman and anybody else who would try to shield him successful.

He said there should be no more worries that government troops would run into another “misencounter” while pursuing terrorists.


“I expect – but they will have to discuss this among themselves – what is the extent that they will help us? Recovery of the firearms; identification of the people who actually did the acts; recovery of personal effects and things like that, I think, will be reasonable to expect from them,” he said.

“At this point in time, I am very, very confident that they will… and they are studying exactly how to demonstrate their sincerity in this peace process,” Aquino said.

“When I say they should show their sincerity, (government forces) can operate in that area relatively freely. They have access to informants that we may not have access to at this point in time,” he explained.

He said it would be easy just to make a list of names without proof, only to see the suspects absolved later. “We are after finding out who are really accountable and make the real guilty responsible,” Aquino said.

He said the MILF had formed its own fact-finding team, and “we can expect that there will be that much more cooperation from them when we file the appropriate charges, once we have developed the necessary evidence.”

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/01/29/1417936/noy-milf-name-saf-killers-show-sincerity
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US agents paid cash for info on terrorists

Jeoffrey Maitem and Allan Nawal
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4:59 AM | Friday, January 30th, 2015

In a meeting held at the headquarters of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police in Parang town, Maguindanao province, sometime in September last year, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and ranking Filipino police officials planned a secret operation aimed at getting a notorious international terrorist, a source who declined to be identified told the Inquirer.

The source said the target was on Washington’s list of priority terrorists: Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir, alias “Marwan,” who had a $5-million price then on his head. The bounty was later raised to $6 million.

The Inquirer source, a former ranking police official in Central Mindanao, claimed that during the meeting, which he attended, the FBI agents shared an intelligence report on the exact whereabouts of Marwan and another terrorist, Filipino Abdul Basit Usman.

The source said the Americans were certain about their intelligence data because it was provided by a mole from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).


To prevent leak

“They were paid cash in exchange for the information,” the source said.

The source said the FBI agents validated the information relayed to them by their mole through the use of “drones and global positioning system.”

“We can even see the hideout of their target,” he said.

During the meeting, it was decided that those involved in the operation would not share information with any other government agencies “to prevent a leak of the plan.”

“They will only coordinate with other government troops—posted along the highway—on their way to their mission,” he added.

The source said, however, that the glaring failure on the part of the police commandos who went to Tukanalipao, a village in Mamasapano town, Maguindanao, controlled by the MILF, was going in without back-up hardware and reinforcements.

Capt. Jo-anne Petinglay, spokesperson for the military’s 6th Infantry Division, admitted that US forces “come and go.”

“They are based in Manila and Zamboanga. We don’t have US troops [based] here [in Maguindanao],” she said.

As to the alleged involvement of US troops in the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) operation on Jan. 25 that cost the lives of 44 police commandos, Petinglay said she was not aware of it.

She said what she knew was that US forces helped extract injured SAF commandos using a helicopter.

The Inquirer saw this helicopter, a white and green chopper manned by four Americans.

In Davao City, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) in Southern Mindanao said it wanted to know the role of the US military in the SAF operation.

Bayan spokesperson Sheena Duazo said the SAF operation was possibly a joint covert-operation with the United States.

“The unfortunate members of the police operation seem to be victims of the latest US-directed antiterror operation sanctioned by President Aquino’s government,” she said.


6,000 US troops

“We want to know what really happened, and why US soldiers are seen with the dead bodies of the PNP-SAF. Are they here just to help the wounded and carry the dead, or is this another one of their botched operations, similar to many of their operations in the Middle East? Is this another case of an imperialist country providing a pretext for its further involvement in local conflict, even if it means death to our fellow Filipinos?” Duazo asked.

Duazo said the Visiting Forces Agreement and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement have ushered in “increasing US military intervention in the Philippines.”

“The 6,000 or so US troops currently deployed in Mindanao may be doing more things on the island that the Filipino public has no knowledge of. President Aquino’s government owes the public [an explanation],” she added.


‘Normal practice’

Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said it was “normal practice” for the United States to assist in evacuating policemen or soldiers wounded in battle.

Gazmin was commenting on newspaper photographs showing Caucasians evacuating wounded SAF commandos after the clash in Mamasapano on Sunday.

The pictures showed the Caucasians helping Filipino soldiers and policemen in the air evacuation using a civilian helicopter.

“I cannot confirm that but I saw the pictures. But that is a normal practice whereby we ask assistance from the US forces to evacuate our wounded,” Gazmin said, adding that the United States has all the assets to provide medical evacuation.

But US forces are not allowed in combat operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, he said.

Asked if the AFP would seek US assistance to verify the remains of Marwan whom the police claimed was killed in the SAF operation, Gazmin said it would through DNA testing provided the government could submit sufficient data.

Reports said the civilian helicopter captured on photographs was traced to Evergreen Helicopters, reportedly a contractor of the US defense department.

Gazmin flew to Mindanao to get an accurate report on what happened in Mamasapano.

President Aquino has blamed the police commanders for the absence of coordination with the military in the area, which resulted in the heavy losses for the SAF.

Gazmin said the 6th Infantry Division dispatched troops from the Division Reconnaissance Company more than two hours after receiving a request for assistance from the SAF personnel who were under rebel fire.


Short notice

“Why it took too long? Because the coordination was made [only] while [the SAF] were on their way to the target,” Gazmin said.

He said the SAF coordinated with the military battalion deployed in the area to guard main supply routes and detachments.

“It should have been in the division level so that it could be planned better. As the President said, their coordination was too late,” he said.

Gazmin said the targeted areas was a big camp of the MILF, and that the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters also had a camp there.

This means, he said, that the SAF needed a much bigger force.

“In this kind of major operation, you need to plan very well,” said Gazmin.

Gazmin also said that the President as Commander in Chief had been informed of operations against high-value targets but the go-signal to proceed was the call of the ground commander.

In Malacañang, Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma said he had no information about American soldiers being present during the operation to get Marwan.

Coloma said he also had no information that Marwan was killed in the SAF operation.


Kenney cable

A classified document published by Wikileaks showed that the US Embassy in Manila sent a cable regarding Marwan on Oct. 17, 2006, to the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of the Treasury, Joint Chiefs of Staff/National Security Council, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United States Pacific Command.

Former US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney, in the transmitted message, requested the inclusion of Marwan in the US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice list.

“We recommend up to $5 million as a reward for information leading to his arrest or capture,” Kenney said.

Described as a senior figure in the Indonesia-based terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Marwan was allegedly involved in “plotting attacks on the USS Blue Ridge, and was centrally involved in hiding ammonium nitrate for planned JI attacks against US facilities in Singapore.”

He had been directly linked to al-Qaida operative Hambali and was an intimate associate of JI operative Dulmatin, Kenney added.


High-value target

Kenney also described Marwan as the former head of the JI-linked Kumpulan Militant Malaysia and was wanted by the Malaysian government for his alleged involvement in the assassination of former Perak State Assembly member Dr. Joe Fernandez.

“Zulkifli is considered a high-value target by the Department of Defense, and is on its Rewards list. On Sept. 9, 2003, he was named by Executive Order No. 13224 as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Individual,” Kenney said.

Kenney said Marwan relocated to Mindanao in early 2002 and was believed to have sought shelter in North Cotabato with the help and protection of members of the MILF’s 105th Base Command.

“He is believed currently located in Pikit, Cotabato, where he is receiving support from elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front 105th Base Command. Zulkifli is the senior JI trainer in the Philippines and continues to engage in terrorism financing activities. He has been connected to multiple terrorist incidents here, including the 2003 Davao bombings,” Kenney said.

The cable corroborates the SAF information that Marwan was in the camp of the 105th Base Command during the operation in Mamasapano.


Terrorists take advantage

Two days after Kenney visited the main camp of the MILF in Camp Darapanan, Maguindanao, on Feb. 19, 2008, she sent another wire stating that Murad Ebrahim, MILF chair, admitted that terrorists were taking advantage of them.

“But more than just concluding the deal, it was equally important to ensure that implementation of the peace accord was successful. Much was at stake, and improving the prosperity of Mindanao depended on improving security in the region. The MILF had a major role in this, not least in denying sanctuary and transit to terrorists. These extremists were no friends of Mindanao in achieving peace or prosperity. As Murad acknowledged that ‘the terrorists take advantage of us,’” Kenney said.

“It was vital for the MILF to work with the Philippine government and the international community to clear up this terrorist threat. The MILF had important information that could help alleviate this serious problem, and the USG would welcome discussions on this and other points with MILF representatives. Progress on eliminating terrorists would be extremely helpful in moving toward peace,” Kenney added. With reports from Cynthia D. Balana and Gil C. Cabacungan in Manila

Read more: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/118151/us-agents-paid-cash-for-info-on-terrorists/#ixzz3QJRdduul
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US used drones and satellites in gathering intelligence while suspended Philippine National Police chief Alan Purisima sent men to verify the intel.

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ILANG NAKALIGTAS NA MILF, DI ALAM NA PULIS ANG NAKA-ENGKWENTRO SA MAGUINDANAO

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WHY THE SECRECY IN THAT SAF OPERATION?

This article may give us a clue;


JSOTF-P HVI#1 Possibly Killed in The Philippines
January 28, 2015 / ISIS Study Group

This past weekend was quite festive with the PNP-SAF executing a daring raid in Mamasapano, Maguindanao (at the farm of Abdul Basit Usman), targeting JSOTF-P HVI#1 Zulkifli bin Hir aka “Marwan.”

The PNP-SAF got Presidential approval for the operation with only a handful of people having knowledge of it prior to execution. The reason for the secrecy was obvious – the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) couldn’t be trusted due to many of the jihadists associated with Marwan having married into families who are in the MILF-CC.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is also compromised, as seen when a member of the Western Mindanao Command alerted Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) member Furuji Indama of plans to drop a precision-guided bomb (PGM) on a camp he was staying at in Basilan.

Also, the PNP-SAF are better trained than the AFP and it’s debatable as to how much support they would even be capable of providing. If anything, they probably would’ve got in the way.

The political feuds between both organization’s leadership would’ve made the chances of success impossible – as seen by the failure of last year’s attempt at conducting a joint-operation targeting Marwan at the same location.

http://isisstudygroup.com/?p=4381#comment-113443

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Jerome Succor Aba of Suara Bangsamoro (left) interviews residents who fled Brgy. Tukanalipao in Mamasapano, Maguindanao during the bloody encounter on Jan. 25. Photo courtesy of Suara Bangsamoro

US soldier allegedly among those killed, civilians terrorized in Mamasapano
by Kenneth Roland A. Guda

At least one American soldier died during the fierce fighting between Philippine government police commandos and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on January 25, witnesses said.

Jerome Succor Aba, spokesperson of Moro human rights group Suara Bangsamoro, said that they were able to interview a 40-year-old farmer in Brgy. Tukanalipao, Mamasapano. The witness said he saw at least one body of a”blue-eyed” soldier minutes after the deadly encounter that led to the deaths of at least 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP).

Aba declined to reveal the name of the witness for security reasons.

“They (civilian residents of Brgy. Tukanalipao) were the first ones to arrive in one of the two areas where the encounters happened,” said Aba. The civilians arrived in the area after troops of the MILF withdrew to the Islamic Center in Sitio Inubog, Brgy. Pembalkan, Mamasapano, he added.

The farmer was even able to touch the nose of the dead soldier, Aba said. The farmer described to Aba the said soldier as “blue-eyed”.

The farmer, as well as other civilians who arrived in the area, also said he saw one particular helicopter, among others that shortly arrived in the area, hover over the bodies to carry “specific bodies,” he added.

Suara Bangsamoro said they were also able to gather testimonies of other witnesses who saw the bodies of what to them appeared to be American soldiers, as of this writing. The witnesses were not able to identify to which specific military units the bodies of supposed US troops belonged.

The Moro group’s revelation about US military’s direct involvement in the military operation that ostensibly targeted suspected terrorists Zulkifli bin Hir aka Marwan of Jemaah Islamiyah and Abdulbasit Usman of Abu Sayyaf came after reports of four Americans seen in Mamasapano in the aftermath of the clashes surfaced.

The US Embassy in Manila said that the American soldiers in Mamasapano were there to “assist in evacuating the dead and wounded” and were not directly involved in the military operation, MindaNews.com has reported.

The 1987 Philippine Constitution, as well as the PH-US Visiting Forces Agreement, forbids foreign military troops from engaging in direct military operations in the Philippines.

- See more at: http://pinoyweekly.org/new/2015/01/us-soldier-allegedly-among-those-killed-civilians-terrorized-in-mamasapano/#sthash.Sme4nj8g.dpuf
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President Noynoy Aquino held back reinforcement and let cops die instead?


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Noy held back on order to reinforce SAF — source
Written by Charlie V. Manalo Friday, 30 January 2015 00:00

AQUINO ON TOP OF BOTCHED MAGUINDANAO OPS

In his obsession to obtain the peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as a political trophy, President Aquino deliberately ignored the pleas from the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) for additional reinforcement to rescue trapped operatives from their dire position.

This was bared to The Tribune by a source within the PNP saying not only was Aquino informed beforehand of the SAF operation against Malay-sian Zulkifli bin Hir, alias “Mar-wan,” believed to be a key leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islam-iyah, and his alleged Filipino henchman, Abdul Basit Usman, but that he was actually on top of the operation itself.

“The President was actually monitoring the operation. Everything was being reported to him in real time,” said the source.

According to the source, Aquino was in Zamboanga that time, waiting in the wings for the outcome of the operation, ready to jump anytime to Maguindanao should the two suspected terrorists be captured.

“But when the operation went out of control as the MILF and the BIFF Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters) joined forces in attacking the SAF, the President refused to send any reinforcement even as the SAF were already crying for help from heir beleaguered position,”
the source said.

Aquino, the source said, cannot deny the fact that he was aware all the time of the SAF operation.

“SAF Commander (Police Director Getulio) Napeñas gave it away. He said that a little less than two hours before the initial gunfighting, the joint monitoring team of the MILF and the government called for a ceasefire. As no one was supposed to have been informed of the operation except (suspended) PNP Chief Alan Purisima, Acting Chief Leonardo Espina, (Executve Secretary Paquito) Ochoa and the President, who could make this possible? No one but the President. He could have called (Presidential Adviser on Peace Process) Teresita Deles to inform the monitoring team of both sides and call for a ceasefire but unfortunately, it didn’t work,” said the source.

In an interview with another national daily, Napeñas averred the joint monitoring team from the MILF and the government called for a ceasefire at a little past 6 am, but the “MILF did not stop shooting.”

“General Napeñas said the ceasefire was called for by the monitoring teams of both sides at a little past 6 am, less than two hours after the first shot was fired around 4:20 am. But the gun battle lasted 11 hours until 3:00 pm, and the nearest Army station is only about one kilometer away from where the gun battle was happening, but no reinforcement was sent,” said the source.

“If the President could make a call so early in the morning to Deles so she could in turn call on the monitoring teams to call for a ceasefire, why can’t he make a call to ask the Armed Forces to send reinforcement for the beleaguered SAF personnel?” the source asked.

“Because he was advised by Deles not to do so. They were so obsessed with the peace agreement, they want to save the Bangsamoro Basic Law as they believe it was the last piece for Aquino to earn the Nobel Peace Prize,” said the source.

“Never mind if 50 dedicated cops were killed,” he lamented.

Full story http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/noy-held-back-on-order-to-reinforce-saf-source



PNoy, if this is true, then YOU ARE A LOUSY COMMANDER IN CHIEF!

Sec. Teresita Deles, what you did was treasonous. We can bring back the negotiation but not human lives.


As for PNoy, you could have turned the battle into a great success if you allowed the military to move in. But sadly, you chose to let them die instead. That is more like treason. Traitor is the word, being the commander in chief of the AFP and the Chief Executive leading the PNP.

Saving the peace deal?

You can always save the peace deal since the MILF has nowhere to go. Besides, you already breached their line when you allowed the PNP-SAF to assault the location, which is within MILF's 105th base jurisdiction.

You also have the right to breach that line since the MILF had already violated the earlier agreement when they allowed Marwan and Usman to stay there and when they failed to tell you about it.

As President, you should have listened to the SAF's call and not that of Deles, who knew nothing about saving lives of the men in the frontlines and who is much more interested in saving her project than saving the lives of the SAF men.

Had the Army been allowed to reinforce the SAF, only a few would have died and

... your courage to risk the peace talk just to save your SAF men, your own men down there, could have made you a hero and earned our loudest and longest applause.

But you chose to be selfish and coward at that. Sorry for the word.

Wrong move on that one.

How to save your image?

Bomb the BIFF and MILF's 105th base command for coddling the bombers.

2nd, suspend the BBL until MILF surrenders Usman and the rest. That's what the MILF must do if they wish to save the BBL.

Make a stand, PNoy. Try to be brave and show to the Filipino nation that the nation's interest comes first and not yours.


REFERENCES

Oplan Wolverine
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/topic/10942309/1/

Bangsamoro Peace Deal
http://w11.zetaboards.com/NDSFP/topic/10353527/
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Marwan leaves behind 300 bomb makers in Mindanao

By John Unson (philstar.com) | Updated January 30, 2015 - 3:20pm


COTABATO, Philippines — Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias "Marwan" may be dead, but the government still has a huge task ahead: To locate the whereabouts of some 300 bomb makers he trained in Central Mindanao over the past two years.

Rebel sources on Friday confirmed that Marwan had roamed freely in Central Mindanao, in the swampy border of North Cotabato and Maguindanao, to train recruits on handling explosives and fabricating bombs with materials from rebel armories, such as B-40 anti-tank rockets and mortar projectiles.


"About 50 of the recruits he trained were ethnic Maranaw jihadists from Lanao del Sur and Marawi City," one of the sources, who asked not to be identified, said in the Maguindanaon vernacular.

Marwan was said to have frequented Lanao del Sur, particularly the Cararao hinterlands and the Unayan area in the province, where his recruits are being coddled by armed groups.

A highly-placed Maranaw government health worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mt. Cararao, in fact, has never been bereft of jihadists identified with Marwan and his Maguindanaon cohort, Abdul Basit Usman.

This is contrary to an earlier finding by a joint inquiry initiated about two years ago by combined officials of the Army's 603rd Brigade and representatives of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Army combatants and MILF members marched through dense jungles and crossed rivers to reach Mt. Cararao to verify bilaterally the reported presence of terrorists there, but found none.

"The people they were searching for knew a joint verification team would be arriving. They dispersed in the surroundings and calmly watched the soldiers and MILF members walk around their hideouts which they abandoned temporarily to avoid detection," the health worker said.

"They even took footages of them roaming around using mobile phones," he added.

Marwan last met with his Maranaw contacts in Mamasapano town in Maguindanao in the middle of 2014, or thereabouts, a Muslim local executive hinted.

The jihadists from Lanao del Sur traveled to Maguindanao via the Cagayan De Oro-North Cotabato route and reached Mamasapano through the Midsayap-Datu Piang Highway.

A footage showing the chartered vehicle of the Maranaws crossing two long bridges, apparently those connecting Barangay Ulandang in Midsayap to the town proper of Datu Piang in Maguindanao, was uploaded on a Facebook account of an extremist group in Lanao del Sur a week later.

President Benigno Aquino III and the figurehead of the MILF, Hadji Murad Ebrahim, had both confirmed that Marwan was killed on January 25 by members of the police’s Special Action Force (SAF) that raided his hideout in an outskirt at the border of Barangays Mangapang and Tukanalipao, both in Mamasapano.

The confirmations, however, came only after the SAF operation, which resulted in the demise of 44 police commandos killed by MILF rebels while pulling out of the area, sparking public uproar.

There are talks that Marwan, while in Mamasapano, had sired two Maguindanaon women with a son each, one of them now in Sarangani province, the other in President Quirino in Sultan Kudarat, being coddled by relatives.

Marwan's recruits

A barangay official, who has relatives in both the MILF and the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), said among Marwan’s recruits were some 30 women, mostly Maguindanaons.

"Three of them spoke to each other in Subanen dialect, indicating they were from somewhere in the Zamboanga peninsula," the source said.

Authorities confirmed on Friday the two Marwan-trained bombers killed Monday night, when a bomb they were to bring to the town proper of Pikit, North Cotabato exploded prematurely while in transit.

Jomar Palaguyan and Asraf Mohammad were riding a motorcycle together carrying a box containing the improvised explosive, which went off while at Quezon Street in Pikit, en route to the town plaza.

Senior Inspector Sindatu Karim, chief of the Pikit municipal police, said they have learned, from feedback by barangay folks and sources from Moro groups, that Palaguyan and Mohammad were recruits of Marwan and Usman.

Local government units in oft-bombed municipalities are bracing for possible retaliations by followers of Marwan.

The attempt by Palaguyan and Mohammad to set off a powerful improvised explosive device in Pikit was already a part of their move, according to military intelligence sources.

Army officials in North Cotabato said there were signs that Marwan's recruits were behind the foiled attempt to topple down last Tuesday another power relay tower of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines in Pagalungan town.

Two NGCP steel pylons, one in Pagalungan and another in Barangay Batulawan in Pikit, were destroyed one after another by bombers just two weeks ago, causing power outage in parts of Maguindanao and North Cotabato and all 37 barangays in Cotabato City.

The bombers strapped separate IEDs on the columns of the NGCP tower the bombers were to destroy last Tuesday.

Farmers in surrounding rice farms, however, noticed the explosives, enabling Army and police bomb experts to promptly dispose them.


Why was Marwan a free man?

For peace activists, some of them involved in foreign-assisted peace-advocacy programs, as well as local officials and members of the Islamic and Christian religious communities, the big question is why Marwan was able to roam freely in Central Mindanao.

The relative freedom of Marwan, a Malaysian wanted for deadly bombings in the country and abroad, was despite security agreements binding the MILF and the government to help each other maintain law and order in the region.

Under the July 1997 Agreement on General Cessation of Hostilities, the government and the MILF are to help each other, through a "joint ceasefire committee," interdict criminals and terrorists in isolated areas in the south.

The security pact, meant to ensure the cordiality between the government and the MILF, in essence declared Moro rebel strongholds off limits to lawless groups, including kidnappers, extortionists, drug traffickers and, most importantly, terrorists, regardless of their local and foreign affiliations.

"There is also a question on why the MILF and the BIFF have 'shared territories' in Mindanao even as the BIFF is known for its radical and extreme organizational stature and its being so opposed to the peace process," said an education official in Maguindanao.

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/01/30/1418391/marwan-leaves-behind-300-bomb-makers-mindanao



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