THE recent Zamboanga siege involving 300 members of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) loyal to Nur Misuari was planned carefully by the group for nearly nine months, a senior police official disclosed on Tuesday.

“We have received reports that they [MNLF] have started training and preparing for this [attack] as early as January,” Deputy Director General Felipe Rojas, PNP deputy chief for Operations, Rojas told reporters during a press briefing in Camp Crame on Tuesday.

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