DISASTROUS BASILAN MISSION UNAUTHORIZED, BADLY PLANNED - LEAKED REPORT

By Jaime Sinapit, InterAksyon The use of trainees in last week’s disastrous mission in Basilan that cost the lives of 19Army Special Forces troops was “not authorized” and the operation itself, which the military has acknowledged was to arrest Moro Islamic Liberation Front commander Haji Laksaw Dan Asnawi and Abu Sayyaf commander Nurhassan Jamir, was carried out with “no deliberate mission planning.”