NBI to question witnesses in airport tower siege
By Bebot Sison Jr. | January 4, 2004 - 12:00am
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is set to summon at least 20 witnesses to the airport control tower siege that resulted in the killing of former Air Transportation Office (ATO) chief Capt. Panfilo Villaruel...
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Killers of Villaruel, Catchillar face murder raps — lawyer
By Sandy Araneta | November 18, 2003 - 12:00am
The family of former Air Transportation Office (ATO) chief Panfilo Villaruel will file murder charges against policemen who killed him and his aide, Navy Lt. (sg) Ricardo Catchillar, last Nov. 8. "It is now...
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Is it full speed ahead, FPJ?
By S.A. Maguire | November 18, 2003 - 12:00am
Last week’s top text message went: "Frm concernd UCPB employees: DANDING JST DEPOSITD P500M 2 FPJ’s ACCT. FPJ 2 ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY ON SUNDAY! Pls pass so people will know." Our political ear-spies...
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Villaruel binaril ng malapitan - ASG
November 18, 2003 - 12:00am
Inamin kahapon ng Aviation Security Group (ASG) sa Senate inquiry kahapon na binaril ng malapitan ng kanilang mga operatiba si dating ATO chief Panfilo Villaruel dahil sa pag-aakala na ang hawak nito ay cellfone...
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Trabaho lang walang personalan - Caro
By Butch M. Quejada | November 18, 2003 - 12:00am
MAY yagbols si PNP-ASG bossing Andres Caro II, kaya paninindigan nito na wala silang nilabag na batas nang atakihin nila ang control tower sa airport. Dedbol kasi sina dating ATO bossing Capt. Panfilo Villaruel...
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Senate: Excessive use of force at NAIA
By Jose Rodel Clapano | November 13, 2003 - 12:00am
Senators are convinced "excessive force" was used when police commandos stormed the control tower of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal II before dawn Saturday, riddling with bullets...
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EDITORIAL - Flogging the dead
November 12, 2003 - 12:00am
We can understand why a government would want to wrest back control ASAP of the air traffic control tower of the nation’s main international airport. We may even understand why special weapons and tactics team...
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It’s not how they died but the ‘corruption’ they decried which draws ire

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | November 12, 2003 - 12:00am
President Macapagal-Arroyo and the government are getting flak for what happened at the NAIA Airport Tower. Hoping to sound preachy, let me start out with the assertion that what the slain former ATO Chief, Col....
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The House capitulates / Villaruel enacts own tragedy

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | November 12, 2003 - 12:00am
For about three weeks, the nation rode the whirlwind on the impeachment issue. And for a time, there was the danger the republic would take off like a cuckoo bird in the void. But the Supreme Court refused to scare....
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We have a mortally wounded democracy
By Bobit S. Avila | November 12, 2003 - 12:00am
Finally last Monday noon the Supreme Court (SC) did their duty in an 111-page decision, voting 13-1 that the second articles of impeachment filed by Congressmen belonging to the Nationalist People’s Coalition,...
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