TV5 screenshot of Basit Usman. The police confirmed a match between tissue taken from what is believed to be the terrorist's body, and that of his mother and nephew.
DNA tests on the remains of a man killed in an encounter with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) forces last May 3, 2015 in Maguindanao, belonged to wanted terrorist Abdul Basit Usman, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Friday.
The PNP Crime Laboratory confirmed the maternal relationship between the DNA profile of skin tissue specimen taken from the body of Usman with the DNA profile of his mother.
Another DNA match was also established between Usman and his nephew.
In addition to the DNA test results, police investigators also obtained the sworn statements of two barangay officials in Guindulungan, Maguindanao, who positively identified the cadaver of Ahmad Akmad Batabol Usman, a.k.a. Basit Usman. Both barangay officials were also able to take snapshots of Usman’s body using their own camera phones.
The PNP Crime Laboratory earlier collected saliva samples through buccal swab from Singkorya Dagkog Usman, mother of Basit; and his nephew Hairudin Balt Usman for DNA profiling.
Citing DNA test results, Crime Laboratory Director, Chief Supt. Theresa Ann Cid, said the “probability of Singkorya’s maternal relationship with Basit Usman is 99.9 percent.”
Comparatively, the DNA test result also revealed that “Basit is paternally related to Hairudin Balt Usman”, Cid said.
A report from CIDG Chief, Director Benjamin B. Magalong, disclosed that a skin tissue specimen was submitted to CIDG by a member of the MILF 106th Brigade on May 8, 2015 in Camp Crame. The same MILF member also submitted a sheet of plain bond paper with alleged fingerprints and bloodstains of Basit Usman.
Magalong said the MILF member executed a sworn statement before CIDG officials attesting that he personally took the specimen from the body of Basit Usman after the wanted terrorist was killed in an encounter with his unit.
The witness said he personally knew Basit Usman because they formerly served together under the MILF 105th Base Command and later in the BIFF.
As a high-profile fugitive from justice, Usman became the subject of DND-DILG Joint Order on Reward No. 15-2012 issued on Nov. 8, 2012 that offered a P6.3-million reward for information leading to his arrest.
The Rewards for Justice Program of the US Department of Justice also offered up to $5-million for information leading to the arrest of Usman, who was described by the US-DOJ as a Filipino bomb-making expert with links to the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organizations operating in the southern Philippines.
PNP Officer-in-Charge, Police Deputy Director General Leonardo A Espina, said these conclusive test results as corroborated by statements of witnesses’ affirmed earlier pronouncements by the AFP that Usman and some of his followers were killed in an encounter with members of the MILF 106th Brigade on May 3, 2015 in Sitio Balas, Barangay Upper Muti, Guindulungan, Maguindanao.
Espina said the fight against terrorism would continue even after the death of Usman.
Usman was among the targets of the bungled operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, where Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli Bin Hir or “Marwan” was killed in the January 25 mission.
The police operation, however, cost the lives of 44 Special Action Force troopers, 17 Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters and three civilians.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/110978/dna-test-results-confirm-remains-belonged-to-basit-usman
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