Post by SaRaHJaNe on Jan 31, 2015 3:41:31 GMT
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this is the worst our Philippine Police had encountered... i am so saddened.. the killings of the 44 SAF men and they are the best we have in the special forces and yet they were being given to be slaughtered by the MUSLIM terrorist by the people responsible just to gain their greed for fame and personal interest... for the sacrifice of the men in uniform.. this is craziness!!!
(Updated 12:06 p.m.) "We know your names, we know your faces, we will never forget how we fought together."
This was what Col. Danilo Pamonag of the Armed Forces of the Philippines' Special Operations Command said at the eulogy during the necrological services Friday at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig for the 42 elite policemen killed in a "misencounter" in Mamasapano town in Maguindanao last Sunday. Two other policemen were earlier buried in Mindanao according to Muslim tradition.
The 44 men from the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force figured in an 11-hour gunfight with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and its splinter group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters while the policemen were on a mission to serve arrest warrants on Malaysian Zulkifli Bin Hir alias Marwan and Filipino bomb-making expert Basit Usman. Twelve PNP-SAF personnel were wounded.
Usman has links to Jemaah Islamiyah and the Abu Sayyaf Group. As early as 2009, the US Department of State has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the location, arrest and/or conviction of Usman.
Meanwhile, up to $5 million reward was offered by the US Department of State for the capture of Marwan, a member of JI's central command. He was believed to be conducting bomb-making training for the Abu Sayyaf Group.
Pamonag explained that his unit has worked with some of the slain PNP-SAF men in some missions, including the Zamboanga siege.
After the siege, Pamonag said they got together again with the PNP-SAF unit in April to plan the serving of the arrest warrant against Jemaah Islamiyah leader Zulkifli bin Hir a.k.a. Commander Marwan.
"We have shared the challenges, we have shared the difficulties, and now, we share the pain with you," he lamented.
this is the worst our Philippine Police had encountered... i am so saddened.. the killings of the 44 SAF men and they are the best we have in the special forces and yet they were being given to be slaughtered by the MUSLIM terrorist by the people responsible just to gain their greed for fame and personal interest... for the sacrifice of the men in uniform.. this is craziness!!!
(Updated 12:06 p.m.) "We know your names, we know your faces, we will never forget how we fought together."
This was what Col. Danilo Pamonag of the Armed Forces of the Philippines' Special Operations Command said at the eulogy during the necrological services Friday at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig for the 42 elite policemen killed in a "misencounter" in Mamasapano town in Maguindanao last Sunday. Two other policemen were earlier buried in Mindanao according to Muslim tradition.
The 44 men from the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force figured in an 11-hour gunfight with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and its splinter group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters while the policemen were on a mission to serve arrest warrants on Malaysian Zulkifli Bin Hir alias Marwan and Filipino bomb-making expert Basit Usman. Twelve PNP-SAF personnel were wounded.
Usman has links to Jemaah Islamiyah and the Abu Sayyaf Group. As early as 2009, the US Department of State has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the location, arrest and/or conviction of Usman.
Meanwhile, up to $5 million reward was offered by the US Department of State for the capture of Marwan, a member of JI's central command. He was believed to be conducting bomb-making training for the Abu Sayyaf Group.
Pamonag explained that his unit has worked with some of the slain PNP-SAF men in some missions, including the Zamboanga siege.
After the siege, Pamonag said they got together again with the PNP-SAF unit in April to plan the serving of the arrest warrant against Jemaah Islamiyah leader Zulkifli bin Hir a.k.a. Commander Marwan.
"We have shared the challenges, we have shared the difficulties, and now, we share the pain with you," he lamented.