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| Southeast Asia |
| Flap thwarts surrender of Pentagon gang boss |
| 2002-07-26 |
| A Malacañang official was blamed yesterday for foiling the planned surrender of Pentagon kidnap gang leader Faisal Marohombsar, who escaped from his detention cell in Camp Crame along with three of his cohorts last month. Marohombsar’s surrender was still being negotiated when President Macapagal-Arroyo announced in a radio interview that the Pentagon leader was already in custody. Later, the President corrected herself and admitted that Marohombsar’s surrender was still being negotiated. But she promised that Marohombsar would be under government custody ''within the day.'' Ooops. Loose lips and what they do to ships... ''There seems to have been some miscommunication,'' said Norberto Gonzales, presidential adviser on special concerns. ''She (the President) was told that the project I was working on was already positive.'' He ought to put some sirloin on that eye. It's really swollen... Marohombsar’s camp had been senÂÂding surrender feelers as early as last week, Gonzales said. However, they were still in the ''initial stages of discussion'' when Mrs. Macapagal-Arroyo made the announcement, according to Gonzales. "Ummm... Madame President, I think you mighta hosed that. No, no! I mean, I hosed it. Yeah. It was me..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |