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                    [ArticleID] => 317344
                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Sleeping in the noodle house
                    [Summary] => 
Share prices fell yesterday, there’s a nationwide security alert, and a manhunt has been launched for four military officers who escaped Tuesday night from the detention facility at the Philippine Army headquarters at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig. The four Oakwood mutineers escaped a month after their co-accused, Marine Capt. Nicanor Faeldon, was virtually allowed to walk to freedom by his military escort in Makati last month.

[DatePublished] => 2006-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317461 [Title] => Coup rumors have resumed and for a reason! [Summary] => In this country, as February approaches, rumors of coups grow ever louder. So if lately you've heard another coup rumor, it must be because we just heard that yesterday, four Oakwood mutineers have followed Marine Capt. Rafael Faeldon and have escaped or deserted Camp Crame. Clearly, despite their supposedly being incarcerated, these mutineers still have some kind of support inside this military base, otherwise how could they have gotten away? Now the Military Police have created "search teams" to look for the missing Oakwood mutineers, 1st Lt. Sonny Sarmiento, 1st Lt. [DatePublished] => 2006-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217586 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Free-for-all [Summary] => For the Oakwood mutineers, the Senate hearing last week was one of their lowest moments. But neither did the senators earn brownie points with the voters they were hoping to impress. [DatePublished] => 2003-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217348 [Title] => A volatile mix [Summary] => Be careful what you wish for – surely this thought must have fleeted across the minds of the Makati mutineers, who decided yesterday that they no longer wanted to testify about their misadventure. [DatePublished] => 2003-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217028 [Title] => No return to barracks [Summary] => The Makati mutineers agreed to return to barracks. But after that latest military misadventure, it will take a long time before the Armed Forces of the Philippines will go back to the barracks.

During the Ramos administration, when rebel soldiers forged a peace agreement with the government and were given amnesty, the nation thought that problem was finally over. More than a decade without a coup attempt lulled the nation into thinking that the AFP was on its way to becoming a non-political, professional army.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216499 [Title] => Wanted alive [Summary] => Abdulmukim Ong Edris, one of the two Abu Sayyaf members who escaped last month from Camp Crame together with Indonesian terrorist Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, was shot dead yesterday together with a Muslim rebel commander near a military checkpoint in Lanao del Norte.

The report early last night was that Edris and his companion had offered to guide Army soldiers to Al-Ghozi’s hideout. The two later tried to grab the rifles of their escorts, the military said.

Guys, guys, were we born yesterday? How many times have we heard that story?
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216517 [Title] => GMA wants maximum penalty for July 27 mutineers [Summary] => President Arroyo said yesterday she will push for the "maximum penalty" for those who planned, led and carried out the alleged coup attempt against her administration last July 27.

The President said she was for "total justice based on due process" as officials said dozens more rebel soldiers and civilian conspirators involved in the plot will be prosecuted.

"The secondary aim of the mutineers if they did not succeed in toppling the government is to weaken national leadership," she said in a statement.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216372 [Title] => Presidential leadership can only be upheld by GMA backing up Oakwood pledges [Summary] => There has been so much confusing blamecasting and hype over how the "putschists" who occupied the Oakwood luxury apartments, Glorietta should be brought to trial and "punished" that yesterday the chairman of the group which negotiated the surrender of the mutineers, Ambassador Roy A. Cimatu, called us to a meeting in Makati to reiterate in specific terms what had been promised the officers and men in order to convince them to surrender.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216147 [Title] => Circus! [Summary] => The President warned the politicians against turning the congressional hearings on the Oakwood mutiny into a political circus. That warning came too late.

Thursday and Friday last week, we were treated to precisely that: a political circus.

The description might be blunt. But it is also precise.

Circuses are distinguished by the abundance of clowns. In both hearings, there was definitely no shortage of clowning.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 215995 [Title] => If she seeks unity and peace, the President must not approve acts of betrayal [Summary] => Not wanting to sound melodramatic about it, let me spell it out plainly. I won’t mince words. I suspect her official "negotiators" didn’t tell President Macapagal-Arroyo, after all she’s the commander-in-chief, everything. For if she were told what pledges were made to the mutineers during the four hours of formal negotiation inside the Oakwood Premier luxury hotel, then she would be a party to the betrayal and doublecross now ongoing.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
MUTINEERS
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                    [ArticleID] => 317344
                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Sleeping in the noodle house
                    [Summary] => 
Share prices fell yesterday, there’s a nationwide security alert, and a manhunt has been launched for four military officers who escaped Tuesday night from the detention facility at the Philippine Army headquarters at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig. The four Oakwood mutineers escaped a month after their co-accused, Marine Capt. Nicanor Faeldon, was virtually allowed to walk to freedom by his military escort in Makati last month.

[DatePublished] => 2006-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317461 [Title] => Coup rumors have resumed and for a reason! [Summary] => In this country, as February approaches, rumors of coups grow ever louder. So if lately you've heard another coup rumor, it must be because we just heard that yesterday, four Oakwood mutineers have followed Marine Capt. Rafael Faeldon and have escaped or deserted Camp Crame. Clearly, despite their supposedly being incarcerated, these mutineers still have some kind of support inside this military base, otherwise how could they have gotten away? Now the Military Police have created "search teams" to look for the missing Oakwood mutineers, 1st Lt. Sonny Sarmiento, 1st Lt. [DatePublished] => 2006-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217586 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Free-for-all [Summary] => For the Oakwood mutineers, the Senate hearing last week was one of their lowest moments. But neither did the senators earn brownie points with the voters they were hoping to impress. [DatePublished] => 2003-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217348 [Title] => A volatile mix [Summary] => Be careful what you wish for – surely this thought must have fleeted across the minds of the Makati mutineers, who decided yesterday that they no longer wanted to testify about their misadventure. [DatePublished] => 2003-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217028 [Title] => No return to barracks [Summary] => The Makati mutineers agreed to return to barracks. But after that latest military misadventure, it will take a long time before the Armed Forces of the Philippines will go back to the barracks.

During the Ramos administration, when rebel soldiers forged a peace agreement with the government and were given amnesty, the nation thought that problem was finally over. More than a decade without a coup attempt lulled the nation into thinking that the AFP was on its way to becoming a non-political, professional army.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216499 [Title] => Wanted alive [Summary] => Abdulmukim Ong Edris, one of the two Abu Sayyaf members who escaped last month from Camp Crame together with Indonesian terrorist Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, was shot dead yesterday together with a Muslim rebel commander near a military checkpoint in Lanao del Norte.

The report early last night was that Edris and his companion had offered to guide Army soldiers to Al-Ghozi’s hideout. The two later tried to grab the rifles of their escorts, the military said.

Guys, guys, were we born yesterday? How many times have we heard that story?
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216517 [Title] => GMA wants maximum penalty for July 27 mutineers [Summary] => President Arroyo said yesterday she will push for the "maximum penalty" for those who planned, led and carried out the alleged coup attempt against her administration last July 27.

The President said she was for "total justice based on due process" as officials said dozens more rebel soldiers and civilian conspirators involved in the plot will be prosecuted.

"The secondary aim of the mutineers if they did not succeed in toppling the government is to weaken national leadership," she said in a statement.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216372 [Title] => Presidential leadership can only be upheld by GMA backing up Oakwood pledges [Summary] => There has been so much confusing blamecasting and hype over how the "putschists" who occupied the Oakwood luxury apartments, Glorietta should be brought to trial and "punished" that yesterday the chairman of the group which negotiated the surrender of the mutineers, Ambassador Roy A. Cimatu, called us to a meeting in Makati to reiterate in specific terms what had been promised the officers and men in order to convince them to surrender.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216147 [Title] => Circus! [Summary] => The President warned the politicians against turning the congressional hearings on the Oakwood mutiny into a political circus. That warning came too late.

Thursday and Friday last week, we were treated to precisely that: a political circus.

The description might be blunt. But it is also precise.

Circuses are distinguished by the abundance of clowns. In both hearings, there was definitely no shortage of clowning.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 215995 [Title] => If she seeks unity and peace, the President must not approve acts of betrayal [Summary] => Not wanting to sound melodramatic about it, let me spell it out plainly. I won’t mince words. I suspect her official "negotiators" didn’t tell President Macapagal-Arroyo, after all she’s the commander-in-chief, everything. For if she were told what pledges were made to the mutineers during the four hours of formal negotiation inside the Oakwood Premier luxury hotel, then she would be a party to the betrayal and doublecross now ongoing.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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