IT’S now clear from the televised Senate hearings last week that the massacre of 44 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos in Mamasapano, Maguindanao was the fateful product of PNoy’s arrogance, the lingering mistrust between the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and the doublespeak of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

More than two weeks before the Mamasapano massacre, PNoy knew that the operation to take down suspected international terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan (dubbed “Oplan Exodus”) was a go. In fact, relieved PNP-SAF director Getulio Napeñas even gave PNoy a “mission update” at the latter’s residence in Bahay Pangarap, together with suspended PNP chief Alan Purisima, and PNP Intelligence Group Director Fernando Mendez.

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