Marwan was bolstering defenses before Mamasapano clash – video footage

Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan, killed in a police operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in January,  was in the process of bolstering his defenses a few weeks before Oplan Exodus, video footage suggests.

 

According to a report on GMA's “24 Oras” program on Thursday, this information is from a conversation in video footage which showed Marwan chatting with Filipino bomb maker Basit Usman and another man.

 

The report said that, in the video, Marwan was negotiating with Usman to get him forty rounds of ammunition.

 

They also mentioned a certain barangay in Datu Piang, Maguindanao which was a known Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters-controlled area.

 

Marwan was killed in the covert police mission on Jan. 25. More than 60 others, including 44 members of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force, were killed in a firefight as members of the SAF were leaving the area.

 

Usman, meanwhile, was able to escape and is currently on the run from an Armed Forces of the Philippines all-out offensive against the BIFF, which has been hiding him. — Andrei Medina/JDS, GMA News