Duterte: CIA will kill me

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President Rodrigo Duterte again claimed on Tuesday that the United State’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) would kill him.

“I know ang nakikinig sa akin is United States siguro, yan ang CIA. ‘Yan ang papatay sa akin, ang ulol na yan e,” Duterte said in a speech during the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) Visayas Island Cluster Conference in Cebu City.

Aside from America, the president said other countries like Russia, China, Israel, and Indonesia are watching him.

“Nakatutok yan sila lahat sa mga leaders,” he said.

Duterte has repeatedly claimed in his public speeches that the CIA wanted him dead.   /vvp

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