Mamapasano hearing at the Senate, with sacked SAF chief Getulio Napenas Jr., government peace panel chairperson Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, and resigned PNP chief Alan Purisima, 9 February 2015. BERNARD TESTA/InterAksyon.com
(UPDATE, 1:05 p.m.) The Malaysian bomber Zulkifli Abdhir alias Marwan had planned to explode a bomb while the convoy of Pope Francis was in Manila on Jan. 18, sacked Philippine National Police Special Action Force head Getulio Napenas Jr. told the Senate hearing Monday.
The bomb of Marwan, who was one of the United States' FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, was to be exploded on T.M. Kalaw Street in Manila.
Napenas detailed his own experience as well as those of Marwan's at the Senate hearing on the aftermath of the deadly Mamasapano clash in which 44 elite policemen were killed.
On the other hand, the head of the Board of Inquiry on the Mamasapano mission that led to the deaths of 44 police commandos said no less than 10 operations had been laid out to get Marwan, the Malaysian terrorist blamed for the deaths of 46 Filipinos, on top of the Bali bombings that killed over 200.
Appearing at a joint Senate hearing of three panels, Director Benjamin Magalong, chief of the PNP's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), said the protege of Marwan, Filipino bomb maker Abdul Basit Usman, is in turn blamed for the deaths of 17 people and injuries to 62 others in a deadly career - starting from the 2002 Fitmart blast that killed 15 people in General Santos City to a 2008 bombing in Cotabato City.
Both Marwan and Usman are subjects of multiple warrants for murder issued by a Kidapawan court. Marwan is on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists, with a $6-million bounty.
Magalong provided senators his initial report based on interviews with over 300 SAF members mobilized for Oplan Exodus, and a review of call and text logs, among others. However, he qualified his presentation by saying it was his initial understanding of what really happened on Jan. 25 based on materials available, and does not represent any prejudgment or conclusion in any way.
"We will give justice to our SAF heroes...by seeking the truth," vowed Magalong, who was appointed to head the ad hoc Board of Inquiry amid widespread outrage over the huge death toll - 44 highly trained SAF members including six officers - in the mission to bag Marwan (full name: Zulkifli bin Hir) and Usman.
The SAF leadership said their assault team killed Marwan in his nipa hut in a cornfield in the marshy Tukanalipao village, and had to cut off his index finger for DNA lab tests after coming under heavy fire from a combined MILF and BIFF group.
Usman escaped during the melee, and President Benigno Aquino III on Friday told the MILF to either help get Usman, or "stand aside" while State forces come in to capture him.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/104678/sino-sila-marwan-planned-to-bomb-pope-francis-convoy-with-usman-killed-63-pinoys-in-bomb-career
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