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                    [ArticleID] => 305954
                    [Title] => Joke only
                    [Summary] => Anthony Gara, the hapless resident of Zamboanga del Norte who was mistaken by the police for Abu Sayyaf commander Radulan Sahiron, should go ahead and file a complaint against his captors. 


If someone does not start teaching cops a lesson in effective law enforcement, we will never see the end of these wrongful arrests. They can be hilarious, as in the case of the wrong Sahiron, as long as you’re not the one who gets manhandled by members of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305969 [Title] => Wow, Mali! [Summary] => I don’t think one should fault a person for taking back something she said or to undo anything if only to correct an error, especially the ones we call honest mistakes.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305767 [Title] => EDITORIAL – Oops, they did it again [Summary] => The joke going around is that the Philippine National Police intended to present Radulan Sahiron, the one-armed Abu Sayyaf bandit, in handcuffs to President Arroyo. Truth is funnier than fiction, however, and people are still laughing over the false announcement that one of the most notorious Abu Sayyaf commanders had been arrested Saturday and would be presented to the President. On Sunday, PNP officials sheepishly admitted that they got the wrong man.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305828 [Title] => Abu Sayyaf leader look-alike to file raps vs police [Summary] => One-armed Anthony Gara, who on Saturday afternoon was mistaken for Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron by government agents, threatened yesterday to sue his supposed "captors."

On the other hand, the Philippine National Police (PNP) wants to move on and credit the blunder to experience.

"It’s over. Let’s try to put that incident behind us. We have already apologized," PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
ANTHONY GARA
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                    [ArticleID] => 305954
                    [Title] => Joke only
                    [Summary] => Anthony Gara, the hapless resident of Zamboanga del Norte who was mistaken by the police for Abu Sayyaf commander Radulan Sahiron, should go ahead and file a complaint against his captors. 


If someone does not start teaching cops a lesson in effective law enforcement, we will never see the end of these wrongful arrests. They can be hilarious, as in the case of the wrong Sahiron, as long as you’re not the one who gets manhandled by members of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305969 [Title] => Wow, Mali! [Summary] => I don’t think one should fault a person for taking back something she said or to undo anything if only to correct an error, especially the ones we call honest mistakes.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305767 [Title] => EDITORIAL – Oops, they did it again [Summary] => The joke going around is that the Philippine National Police intended to present Radulan Sahiron, the one-armed Abu Sayyaf bandit, in handcuffs to President Arroyo. Truth is funnier than fiction, however, and people are still laughing over the false announcement that one of the most notorious Abu Sayyaf commanders had been arrested Saturday and would be presented to the President. On Sunday, PNP officials sheepishly admitted that they got the wrong man.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305828 [Title] => Abu Sayyaf leader look-alike to file raps vs police [Summary] => One-armed Anthony Gara, who on Saturday afternoon was mistaken for Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron by government agents, threatened yesterday to sue his supposed "captors."

On the other hand, the Philippine National Police (PNP) wants to move on and credit the blunder to experience.

"It’s over. Let’s try to put that incident behind us. We have already apologized," PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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