VOL. 8 ISSUE 215 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016
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‘WHERE’S THE $5M REWARD?’ EDGE
Rody asks where the reward for slain terrorist went
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AVAO City Mayor Rody Duterte has urged those responsible for the Mamasapano, Maguindanao raid last year to disclose who claimed the $5-million reward offered for the capture of international terrorist Zulkifli bin Abdul alias Marwan and how it was divided. In a post in his verified Facebook account, former North Cotabato Governor Emmanuel Piñol said Duterte made the statement when he
met with the families of two members of the SAF 44 in Zamboanga City on Sunday, exactly a year after the raid. “Duterte said authorities should tell the families of the slain police commandos how the reward money was shared,” Piñol said. “Where’s the money?” he quoted Duterte as saying. Piñol said according to Duterte, the operators of the raid, which resulted in the death of the Malaysian bomb
maker and international terrorist and also the killing of 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF) and members the armed groups and several civilians in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, “must tell the truth.” Piñol said Duterte later said that while the grief of the families of the victims could not be eased by material things, the members of the raiding team must share in the reward money because “more than anybody else, they made
the supreme sacrifice.” The US government, which has listed Marwan as one of the top international terrorists, offered the $5-million reward for anybody who could provide information that could lead to the capture or killing of the Malaysian bomb-maker. Piñol said reward money for operations like the Mamasapano raid to get Marwan is supposed to be given only to the informants but in actual
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