Pintakasi is how the war in Basilan between the Abu Sayyaf and the military contingent has been described by Major General Dolorfino who also sort of promised or hoped that this vicious problem is finished by the end of the year. According to his theory of pintakasi, the more the war is taking too long, [...]
High Value Terrorist Targets Are In Sulu
April 18, 2009 By 28 Comments
From Somalia to Sulu, kidnap-for-ransom has become a lucrative business and a potent weapon. It is the preferred tactic of organized crime syndicates like the Abu Sayyaf and the Somali pirates to extort not only millions in ransom, but to propagandize for an alleged cause whose inherent unattainability justifies both the last and the next [...]
Two Hostages Beheaded in Basilan
April 14, 2009 By 50 Comments
Over-indulgent, self-absorbed, cry-baby bloggers whose IDS and EGOS are more important to them than what’s really going on in the jungles of Sulu and Basilan, need to pay attention to the news instead of spreading propaganda sympathetic to kidnap-for-ransom gangs or otherwise try to rationalize or justify the organized criminal sociopathy of various insurgent terrorist [...]
Death squads?
April 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
The number of summary killings by so-called Death Squads in so far as Davao is concerned has pushed the panic button. There is now an emerging concern from various groups on how the brakes should be applied to this continuing scare affecting young children of not few families to the point many suspect if is [...]
Is government weak?
April 10, 2009 By 22 Comments
Up until today, it looks like government is yet to reinvent the wheel in addressing the vicious cycles of lawlessness perpetuated by the Abu Sayyaf Group. That it has not yet come up with one escapes comprehension. The evil deeds that the ASG has already shown must have already gone beyond tolerance limit that it [...]
Hostage crisis – how will it end?
April 6, 2009 By 7 Comments
There now appears to be a brewing ‘word war’ between Sen. Gordon, as chair of the Philippine National Red Cross and Sec. Teodoro as head of the Department of National Defense over the continuing crisis in Sulu as two remaining hostages are not freed by the Abu Sayyaf unless at least four towns in Sulu [...]
Jolo Hostage Situation, The Tuesday Deadline
April 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
The fate of three Red Cross aid workers is hanging in the balance after the Philippines government dismissed the demands of their captors. The Abu Sayyaf Islamist group says they will behead one of the workers if security forces do not withdraw from five towns on the southern island of Jolo, by Tuesday. Reynaldo Puno, [...]
Abu Sayyaf stand off – case of lifeboat ethics?
April 2, 2009 By 28 Comments
The stand off, to tell it like it is, may now be reduced to a case of lifeboat ethics. A single option among many is the best possible solution if we are to situate it in its ordinary moral context. And this is that, we must choose who to save – it is as simple [...]
Beheaded, Not Forgotten
April 2, 2009 By 23 Comments
It never fails to surprise the ever-urbane modern Filipino, (in whom outrage can be sparked by a little Chip Tsao) how very many persons have actually been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf Groups in the Southern Philippines in the 21st Century alone. The list of names I have compiled below is incomplete but ought to [...]
Choosing when to fight
April 1, 2009 By 21 Comments
The two issues that our country face today, namely, that of Chip Tsao’s brash satire on Manila’s claim to the Spratlys, and the ongoing crisis on the kidnap of the ICRC workers, reminds me of a verse in Sun Tzu’s Art of War: Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: [...]
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