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Why Was Robot Killed? — It was the CIA
 | I sure as hell hope it was the CIA ... |
Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Joel Virador yesterday raised questions about the killing of Abu Sayyaf leader Ghalib Andang, alias Commander Robot, who was among the hostage takers at the MMRC. Virador said he learned from Andang, when he celebrated Eid'l Fitr with Moro detainees last year, about the alleged involvement of civilian and military officials in collusion with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in numerous terrorist activities in Mindanao. He said Andang had told him the kidnapping of Jeffrey Schilling was actually staged and that the American was actually a CIA agent providing training to the Abu Sayyaf. Virador said many of the Moro detainees, who were mostly Tausug, also told him they were tortured by the military into confessing to the crimes with which they were charged. "The rash and inordinate use of force by the police and military to resolve the hostage crisis has effectively quashed any prospect of determining the real reasons behind the incident," he said. "It has also imperiled the resolution of numerous pending cases lodged against the detainees, especially considering that most of them could have been falsely accused and used as unwilling scapegoats." | "Pure as the driven snow, they wuz...and now they're dead at the hands of an inhuman killing machine!" |
The detainees also decried that they had languished in jail for more than four years because of continued inaction by the Department of Justice, he added. | Languishing away, no gun sex for months at a time. Leading lonely, empty lives, in which a beleagured Robot was forced to call his friends on the outside and instruct them to have eight safehouses ready for himself and the lads... |
Posted by: seafarious 2005-03-16 |
