‘Marwan’ is alive – MNLF

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Zulkifli bin Hir, alias “Marwan,” who was the subject of a botched commando operation that led to the massacre of around 50 policemen in Mamasapano town in Maguindanao province, is still alive and hiding somewhere in the nearby province of Lanao, according to the spokesman of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

In fact, Emmanuel Fontanilla said the Malaysian bomb expert was not even in Mamasapano when the elements of the elite Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) stormed a purported Jemaah Islamiyah in Tukanalipao village on January 25.