A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines (STRATFOR)
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A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines is republished with permission of STRATFOR. On Aug. 23, Rolando Mendoza, a former senior police inspector with the Manila police department, boarded a tourist bus in downtown Manila and took control of the vehicle, holding the 25 occupants (tourists from Hong Kong and their Philippine guides) hostage. Mendoza, who was dressed in his police inspector’s uniform, was armed with an M16-type rifle and at least one handgun.A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
Dismissed cop takes tourists hostage in Manila (demands reinstatement with benefits)
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(UPDATE) MANILA, Philippines – A dismissed police official has taken hostage 25 passengers of a tourist bus, including some children, in Manila this morning, a radio report said. The report said Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, formerly with the Manila Police District-mobile division, was sacked from service for drug charges. Armed with an M-16 assault rifle, Mendoza boarded a Hong Tai tourist bus that was parked at the Luneta Grandstand in Manila. Mendoza allegedly demanded to be reinstated to his previous post with benefits, the report added. As of posting time, SWAT members have already surrounded the bus where Mendoza and...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
Pershing's legacy remains
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ZAMBOANGA, PHILIPPINES U.S. troops in the southern Philippines face the prospect of battle with descendants of the Muslim insurgents that brought U.S. General John "Black Jack" Pershing to the country more than a century ago. Before deploying to Basilan on the weekend, the Green Berets took seminars on the roots of Muslim rebellion in the poverty-wracked south as they brought Washington's war on terrorism to one of the most remote parts of the former U.S. colony. "It's an old war," said Datu Amil Jumaani, a Muslim professor who lectured the U.S. troops. Arab missionaries brought Islam to the Philippines in ...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
Gun lovers celebrate gun-loving Aquino
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MANILA, Philippines—Standing amid an array of foreign assault rifles and local shotguns at one of the Philippines' largest shopping malls, firearms aficionados celebrated the rise of the nation's new president. Benigno Aquino, who took office on June 30, is an avid sports shooter and clips on YouTube show him using a semi-automatic pistol with great skill at a target shooting competition. "The feeling is that he is one of us. He also inhales gunpowder," said Johnmuel Mendoza, head of PRO-Gun, the country's largest firearms-rights group, at the twice-yearly gun show in Manila's vast "Megamall." Indeed Aquino, the Supreme Court chief...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
Rights Group Denounces Illegality of Abortion in Philippines
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MANILA — A new study of abortion in the Philippines denounces the government for keeping it illegal, causing what the authors describe as a “human rights crisis” that victimizes tens of thousands of women every year, at least a thousand of whom die from unsafe, often crude, procedures. The Center for Reproductive Rights, which is based in New York and did the study that was to be released Monday, said the Philippine government was directly responsible for the crisis and accused it of violating the rights of these women by failing to address the effects of the abortion ban. “Criminalization...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
Facebook Helps Philippine Cops Nab Murder Suspect
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Philippine police tracked down a suspect in a series of grisly robberies and killings with the help of his Facebook account, officials said Tuesday. Mark Dizon, a 28-year-old computer technician, did not resist when arrested Tuesday while talking with his father in a public square in northern San Fernando city, police Senior Superintendent Danilo Bautista said. He is accused of killing nine people — six Filipinos, an American, a Canadian and a Briton — in three different robberies at hotels and homes this month in Angeles city. The area, near the former U.S.-run Clark Air Force Base some 50 miles...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
Young Abu Sayyaf member captured in Philippines
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ZAMBOANGA- Philippine police said Monday they have captured a member of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group who joined in the abduction and beheading of Christian workers when he was 14. The suspect, Jirome Mustakin, now 22, was arrested Sunday in the southern port city of Zamboanga as he waited to board a ferry heading across the sea border to Sabah in Malaysia, police said. "Mustakin was positively identified by a witness as one of those who were involved in the kidnapping," city police chief Senior Superintendent Edwin de Ocampo told reporters. He said Mustakin was 14 when he joined...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
Earthquake Hits Southern Philippines; No Damage
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<p>An undersea 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Philippines on Saturday morning but it was too deep to cause any damage, officials said.</p><p>No tsunami alert was issued, said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, based in Hawaii.</p><p>The quake hit the Moro Gulf off Mindanao Island at 7:15 a.m. (2315 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey said. It said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 but the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology later reported a 6.9 magnitude.</p>
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
A Mandate of Change (Philippine President Benigno Aquino III Inauguration Speech)
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A MANDATE OF CHANGE By BENIGNO SIMEON C. AQUINO III President of the Philippines His Excellency Jose Ramos Horta, Former President Gloria Arroyo, Former President Fidel V. Ramos, Former President Joseph Estrada, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and members of the Senate, House Speaker Prospero Nograles and members of the House, justices of the Supreme Court, members of the foreign delegations,Your Excellencies of the diplomatic corps, fellow colleagues in government, aking mga kababayan. My presence here today is proof that you are my true strength. I never expected that I will be here taking my oath of office before you,...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
South China Sea: The coming war?
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It's a 3.5 million-square kilometer stretch of ocean, speckled with some 200 coral atolls, some submerged or so tiny they hardly deserve to be called islands. Welcome to the South China Sea, an obscure patch of global real estate that you're likely to hear more about in coming years. Six Asian countries have long had competing — at times comical — claims to various islands here, sending token military forces to occupy barren rocks at great expense in the name of national pride. What's new is China's muscle-flexing, which, if trends continue, could make the South China Sea one of...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:47:18 PM
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