Foreign terrorists associated with Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan continue to expand their network in southern Philippines as they continue to roam freely in Mindanao, an exclusive report on GMA News "24 Oras" said on Tuesday.
According to Prof. Rommel Banlaoi, a security analyst and executive director of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, the suspected terrorists are behind the terrorist group the Khalifa Islamiya Mindanao or the Black Flag Movement.
The group reportedly aligns itself with the ISIS.
Along with Marwan, who was said to have been killed in a police operation on Jan. 25 in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, the suspects planned the bombing of the motorcade route of Pope Francis when the pontiff visited the Philippines in Jan. 15 to Jan. 19.
The report identified them as Mawiya, a Singaporean; Amin Baku, a Malaysian; and Abdul Basit Usman, a Filipino who also has links with the dreaded Jemaah Islamiya.
"A lot of terror plots in the southern Philippines, itong tatlong ito they were involved. Kasi they work together as a team because they believe in establishing an Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia," Banlaoi said.
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