SAF CAPTURES WIDOW OF MALAYSIAN TERRORIST

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Police Special Action Force (SAF) commandos arrested the Filipino wife of slain Sunday morning.

Marwan’s widow, Juromee Dongon, alias Tata or Saynab was tracked down at her hideout in the town of Tubod where she was arrested with two others, according to the police. She was immediately turned

- tion and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police (PNP)–Northern Mindanao based in Cagayan de Oro.

The commandos seized a caliber .45 pistol, fragmentation grenade, including blasting caps and detonating cords from the house of by a warrant. the operation and the military was also silent on the capture of Dongon or her role in terrorist attacks her husband had carried out alongside the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in the troubled region. Marwan was killed in a clandestine police operation in January 2015 in Mamasapano town of Maguindanao. The operation also left 44 SAF commandos dead Freedom Fighters who tried to rescue the Malaysian terrorist whose hideout was inside a sprawling MILF camp in the town.

The MILF, which harbored and protected Marwan, refused the killing of the police commandos, although it returned to weapons it seized from the slain SAF members.

Meanwhile, Supt. Lemuel Gonda, PNP- Northern Mindanao spokesman, said Dongon will be facing charges for illegally pos- when the arrested suspect will be transferred to the PNP national headquarters in Camp Crame, “Yes [Dongon] is here at the at CDO [Cagayan de Oro)] No information as to when [she will be transferred to Camp Crame],” Gonda told TheManilaTimes in a text message.

He also explained that it will depend on the court on whether Dongon will be brought to Camp Crame.

“Usually, those who were arrested here are being brought to Diwa,” Gonda said, referring to