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Marknirag, I am telling you this the way a father tells it to his son. 'Real life intelligence (or counterintelligence or espionage) is not like sipping cognac in the Riviera or not like a James Bond film'. Just look at it in a perspective Victor Corpus (ex-ISAPF chief) looks at it or how the MI6 practiced it when Kim Philby, the Soviet spy was unmasked.

Mr. Epigone, I know Mr. Marknirag personally and professionally, i know where he has been and what he has done ...... in short his been there ...... done that and is and i know that he knows what he is talking about , trust me he is currently recuperating from a gunshot wound and will be back in action soon. o MARKNIRAG get well soon Bok ! RLTW!!!

One time I got shot too, sir walop and sir marknirag. I bragged to my superior offier that 'I can handle this' while showing him my entrails, putting it back to where it belonged, extracted the bullet and stitched the mortal wound without anaesthesia laughing boisterously and sneering at the enemy. Boy, do I like soldiery boys, just like you!!

ouch ! ill probably faint

he probably watched too many war movies

One has not even seen those in the movies. The only parallel to it was when I again was knifed in Meycauyan visiting a phone pal. Almost all of my entrails were protruding. I went to the nearest public faucet, cleaned my entrails with water, covered it with my shirt to stop profuse bleeding and hailed a taxi on the way to the hospital.

WHEN I RELAYED THE 'ENTRAILS' EXPERIENCE TO JOMA SISON IN UTRECHT WHILE PAYING HIM A VISIT, IMPULSIVE BY NATURE, HE CALLED ME AN "EVIL PSYCOPATH", I DID NOT CONFIRM NOR DENY.

This post has been edited by epigone on Apr 1 2008, 09:20 PM

NBI receives vehicles, computers from Australian gov't
05/22/2008 | 11:22 PM

MANILA, Philippines - The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday accepted a donation of cars, motorcycles, and computers from the Australian government to better equip it in combating transnational crimes.

NBI Director lawyer Nestor Mantaring led the NBI officials and personnel in welcoming and accepting the donation thru Australian Ambassador in Manila Rod Smith.

Representatives from the Australian Federal Police were also present.

The donation consisted of two units of Toyota Altis, one unit of Toyota Camry, two units of Toyota Innova, and three Honda motorcycles. Several laptop computers were also donated.

In his message, Smith stressed the need of cooperation between law enforcement agencies in different countries in combating transnational crimes.

Mantaring thanked the Australian government and acknowledged the donation.

The NBI chief said the donation will immensely improve the capability of the NBI in its anti-terrorism efforts, as the resources will boost the mobility of its manpower.

Recently, the NBI-Interpol had received a donation from the British Embassy in Manila consisting of computers and accessories that the NBI is using now to improve its operational capability and anti-fraud operations. - GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/96843/NBI-rece...Australian-govt

Suspected NPA hitman falls in Makati City
08/20/2009 | 03:43 PM

Authorities have arrested a suspected former communist hitman allegedly involved in the killing of eight policemen in 2000, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) announced on Thursday.

NBI director Nestor Mantaring said aside from killing eight policemen, Vincer Sapungan is also believed to be involved in at least 25 cases of execution.

Citing a report from the NBI Interpol Division, Mantaring said Sapungan, who was arrested in Makati City early this month, is a former member of the New People’s Army (NPA) hit squad based in Oriental Mindoro.

The suspect was among those charged with multiple murder and frustrated murder for the July 4, 2000 ambush in Sitio Mamao in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro that killed eight policemen and wounded four others.

The NBI Calapan District Office (CALDO) had also filed a murder case against Sapungan for the death of one Ernando de Juan on November 24, 2003.

Two more murders cases were filed against him at the Calapan City Regional Trial Court Branch 40 for the death of one Cleofe G. Teofilo on May 15, 2004 in Barangay Villa Cereza, and Manalo M. Ciriaco in Brgy. Alcate, both in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro.

Mantaring said Sapungan engaged in gun-for-hire activities after leaving the communist movement years ago. His last known location before his arrest was Taguig City.

Sapungan is now detained at the NBI Jail, according to Mantaring. - GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/170282/Suspect...-in-Makati-City

NBI revives task force on Bentain

MANILA - The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has reactivated its task force to look into the disappearance of Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) employee Edgar Bentain.

From a missing person case, Bentain's may now be considered a possible murder, after Senator Panfilo Lacson disclosed in a privilege speech that Bentain was abducted in 1999 and killed somewhere in Laguna.

Bentain is said to have leaked a video in 1998 of then Vice-President Joseph Estrada gambling at a casino in Manila.

The NBI said it may invite the senator for questioning so he can shed light on Bentain's case.

"Yun pong binanggit ni Sen. Lacson sa katunayan po talagang mag-uumpisa tayo dun sa napakababaw ding impormasyon," NBI deputy director for intelligence Ruel Lasala told ANC's Dateline Philippines on Friday.

"Di naman siguro mahirap imbitahan, at dati naman pong law enforcer si Sen. Ping Lacson, maiintindihan nya naman po yun," Lasala added.

The NBI said its 4-year probe into Bentain's disappearance was shelved after failing to find solid leads.

But with a witness who's willing to participate, the agency hopes to make a breakthrough in the case.

In an interview earlier this week on ANC's The Big Picture, Senator Lacson revealed he is convincing an ex-cop involved in Bentain's abduction to turn state witness.

"I asked him to relay to that police officer if he would be willing to act as state witness, and if I can work it out, probably he can come out and tell all," Lacson said, recalling his meeting with an emissary of the former policeman. - by Karen Reyes-Caringal, ANC

source..

sir hindi kaya malagay sa alanganin ang buhay ng pinsan mo? hindi ba dapat secret nyo na lang yun? dapat nga secret nya lang yun at hindi nya dapat sinabi sayo.


just my 2 cents.




regards,
jake

How NBI tracked down Alvin Flores

By Jeannette Andrade
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:52:00 10/31/2009

Filed Under: Crime, Robbery and theft

MANILA, Philippines - It was an operation by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) that neutralized one of the most elusive criminals in the country, whom they claimed was a former waiter with no military nor police background.

But the NBI remained vague Friday on the details of the “extensive undercover work and painstaking surveillance” they conducted which led to the killing of Alvin Flores and three of his cohorts: Ritchie Gigante Hijapon, Mark Alejandro Bondoc Salamanca, and Roger Sanchez.

The four, all suspects in the brazen daylight robbery of a Rolex watch store in Greenbelt 5 in Makati City two weeks ago, were killed in a shootout with NBI agents in a beach house in Compostela town, Cebu, late Thursday afternoon. Another was arrested.

NBI regional director for Central Visayas Medardo de Lemos said the NBI agents tried to serve two warrants of arrest when they were fired upon by the suspects.

The vagueness of the operational details was punctuated by a hooded informant in black military boots who was given the P510,000 reward for positive information that led them to the gang’s hideout.

At a press conference Friday, NBI Deputy Director for Special Investigation Services Rickson Chiong under whom the Reaction, Arrest and Interdiction Division (Raid) falls, refused to disclose details on how the informant tipped off the bureau on the whereabouts of Flores and his gang.

When pressed how the tip-off was given by the informant, Chiong told the Inquirer, “We cannot divulge that. It would jeopardize our future operations.”

During the press conference, NBI director Nestor Mantaring revealed that joint teams of the NBI from the Task Force Against Armed Robbery Groups (TF-AAROG), the Central Visayas Regional Office (Cevro), and the Raid worked to track down Flores and his group from Antipolo, through Central Luzon, and caught up with them in Cebu.

“The hiding place of the group was located through extensive undercover work and painstaking surveillance and stakeout in the neighboring municipalities of Compostela, Liloan and Mandaue City,” Mantaring said.

He pointed out later that, instead of Alvin Flores, the “informant” saw the gang leader’s right hand man Ritchie Hijapon, who hails from Dapdap, Kinatarkan, Sante Fe, Cebu.

The NBI chief said that after the informant spotted Hijapon in Cebu, the NBI has since been on the group’s tail.

When they finally caught up with the group at the resort and a dragnet was set up, the NBI operatives were fired upon by Flores and his men who reportedly tried to escape. Only one “unarmed” member of the Alvin Flores Gang survived the clash and was arrested by the NBI. Operatives recovered an M-16 automatic rifle, two .45 caliber pistols, a KG 9 caliber .9 mm machine pistol, and a silver Toyota Vios (XGE-164) from the suspects.

Mantaring said that Rene Batiencela, who has an outstanding arrest warrant for illegal possession of firearms issued by a Caloocan City court, was taken into custody by the NBI-Cevro and is set to be charged for the Greenbelt 5 heist and for his involvement in at least 5 other robberies perpetrated by the Alvin Flores Gang.

The NBI director stressed that the whole operation was also the result of information sharing with the Philippine National Police (PNP).

PNP Directorate for Intelligence head Supt. Eugene Marta in revealed that based on their background check on Alvin Flores, he had no military or police training.

“He is an ordinary civilian who had a wife and 2 children in Leyte. He formed a small group which conducted small-time robberies,” Martin told reporters, adding that the success of Flores’ “initial hits” apparently emboldened the gang leader to pull off bigger heists.

He later disclosed that Flores used to work as a waiter but did not say where he was previously employed.

The records ran contrary to previous pronouncements made by the Eastern Police District (EPD) on Flores’ background when his group began to pull off heists in 2000.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadl...wn-Alvin-Flores