AFP uncovers terror plot in Iloilo
Government troopers scored big in a successful Army operation Saturday that led to the take-over of a communist lair in Calinog, Iloilo. Major recoveries were also made on documents seized that confirmed planned attacks of the communist group's Central Front Committee (CFC) here.
From specifics on burning of cell sites, to bombing and tactical attacks on police and military stations as well as detachments of civilian volunteers, the recoveries validated earlier reports of offensives planned by the Communist hierarchy here. Implementors of the planned sabotage and terror are communist terrorist rebels New People's Army (NPA) alongside members in the communist legal front organizations.
In a report, Captain Lowen Gil Marquez, Commanding Officer of the 32nd Civil Relations Group of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) disclosed that the communist hide-out was located at Sitio Tablea, Barangay Cahigon, Calinog, Iloilo. The area had four makeshift guardhouses with the premises said to be the hide-out of some 50 communist terrorists. Along with the voluminous documents recovered was one M16 armalite rifle left in haste by the fleeing communist terrorist rebels.
Army soldiers were led to the area by locals who reported massive extortion activities in the villages.
Meantime more recoveries in Negros Occidental this time from relatives of one ranking NPA leader n Barangay Nasuggan, La Libertad. The News Today (TNT) learned that among those surrendered to Army trooper belonging to the 11th IB were two high-powered firearms, one M16 armalite rifle and one baby armalite.