Print Print edition: 2017-01-25

Duterte blames CIA for botched terror raid

Published January 25, 2017 Updated January 25, 2017 12:00am

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly orchestrated a botched raid targeting an alleged Islamic terrorist that left 44 Filipino policemen dead two years ago. Police commandos killed Zulkifli Abdhir, who was on the US government's list of "Most Wanted Terrorists", in the raid in remote farmland in the southern Philippines, where various Muslim separatist rebel groups and more hard-line militants are based.