President Benigno Aquino III recalled how the Moro Islamic Liberation Front worked with government in pursuing suspected terrorists in the past, and challenged the organization to demonstrate its sincerity in the peace agreement that it had just signed with government. The MILF is in hot water for the death of at least 44 police commandos who were attacked in the MILF territory in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, while pursuing high-level Malaysian terrorists. The Muslim group said the incident happened because government troops failed to coordinate with them. Various reports indicate the cops were brutally killed, their uniforms, firearms, and gadgets being withheld by MILF. Some quarters have asked that the peace agreement with the MILF be set aside. While the MILF said it would conduct its own probe into the matter, the President said this was not enough, and that he expects something more concrete on the part of the MILF, namely: stepping aside when authorities conduct operations against bomb expert Abdul Basit Usman, and to allow authorities to recover the personal effects of fallen soldiers.
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