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Negotiator: No intel report on hostage crisis

(UPDATE) MANILA, Philippines – The chief negotiator who handled the hostage-taking incident last Aug. 23 in Manila admitted that he not talked to an intelligence team during the negotiations to save the hostages.
During today’s hearing of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) on the hostage crisis, Superintendent Orlando Yebra of the Manila Police District said he wasn’t able to talk to an intelligence operative or anyone who could have given him vital information on the hostage-taker and his hostages.
But he said someone handed him a printout containing the personal background of the hostage-taker, dismissed senior police officer Rolando Mendoza.
According to Yebra, it is vital for the intelligence group to know the mental mindset of the hostage-taker.
Mendoza was the culprit behind the hijacking of a tourist bus carrying 21 Hong Kong nationals and four Filipinos. The hostage crisis ended when Mendoza was shot dead by a police sniper after an 11-hour stand-off. 
The IIRC proceedings, led by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, are expected to finish on Wednesday.