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2005-03-16 Southeast Asia

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Posted by seafarious 2005-03-16 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...You'd think he'd have had a few fembots waiting for him...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-03-16 12:07:09 AM|| 2005-03-16 12:07:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes disasemble.

Posted by Johny Five 2005-03-16 2:23:12 AM|| 2005-03-16 2:23:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Between conjuring up fantasies about Uncle Sam's doings and stealing government money, Filipino politicians are clearly earning their keep.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-03-16 2:46:52 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-03-16 2:46:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It sure would be nice to have a CIA that concentrates on whacking guys like Mr. Roboto. Paging Porter Goss . . .

Posted by Mike 2005-03-16 6:57:30 AM|| 2005-03-16 6:57:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 ZF-
Don't laugh, some of them are still telling their constituents that us leaving Clark and Subic Bay is just a bluff...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-03-16 7:22:02 AM|| 2005-03-16 7:22:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 You'd think he'd have had a few fembots waiting for him...

Ghalib? Ghalib Andang, what have you been up to?

Posted by Stella #72 2005-03-16 9:07:37 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:07:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Read today's belmont club on this topic.

All of which you would have guessed from reading bits and pieces of the Belmont Club but Greg Sheridan puts it together in a respectable and scholarly way. Philippines prisons are places where inmates devote nearly limitless ingenuity to devising mind-boggling schemes. It's a place where inmates implant plastic pellets in their Johnsons using razor blades, merthiolate and ignorance; it's a place where inmates have passed messages to each other using cockroaches tethered to thread; it's a place where people play a game of 'attract the fly' by betting on which coin a fly will choose to light upon in the toilets. It's a place where your life depends on your shiv and the guys you've chosen as your friends. Poetry has been written and forgotten within its walls. It is a place of closely held ritual, where by tradition all prisoners beat their cups against the bars when a man is led to the electric chair. It is as alien to the Philippine ruling elite as the surface of Mars.

I can imagine the Abu Sayyaf assaulting the police raiders in the teargas clouds, running with that peculiar comedic gait characteristic of people sprinting in flip-flops, lighting up the mattresses with a spluttering match possessed with the indomitable spirit of Bahala Na (I don't give a damn) and the cops shooting them down in the same part. One day, after the action has died down in the Middle East, popular culture may turn its attention to the Second Front against terror in Southeast Asia. Instead of the desert the images will be of small boats flitting among islets under a whitening moon and of strange chases in stinking cities between grotesques that would do justice to the Army of Darkness. Kipling would have been the writer of choice to capture the atmosphere, only he is seventy years dead.

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-16 9:50:04 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:50:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wretchard quotes the Left Wing Philippine Inquirer spinning the raid this way:

Their (the Abu Sayyaf ) deaths also mean that they have escaped trial and, more importantly, put any information that they possessed irretrievably beyond the government's reach. ... And the shrugging continued when other things were pointed out, such as the dangers posed by having firearm-bearing guards in close proximity to the Abu Sayyaf prisoners. ... Human rights activists, for one, have been battling for years against overcrowding in our jails, which puts underage offenders in close proximity to hardened criminals, and which makes it even more difficult to properly isolate dangerous inmates such as captured members of the Abu Sayyaf. ... The fact is that the Abu Sayyaf won yet another round against the government. Its captured members died with guns blazing, drawing the world's attention to their cause and their refusal to let their detention circumscribe their actions.

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-16 9:54:43 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:54:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 From the opposite perspective Wretchard quotes Max Soliven:

When the gunsmoke â and tear gas â cleared, the most notorious kidnappers-killers-and-bombers were dead: the bully Alhamzer Manatad Limbong, alias Bro. "Kosovo" who had been identified by Gracia Burnham as one of their cruel kidnappers, suspected of masterminding the SuperFerry 14 bombing which killed 110 helpless passengers, and triggered off the motorbike "bomb" in Magutay, Zamboanga City, which killed US M/Sgt. Mark Jackson, and seriously wounded US Capt. Mike Hummel in October 2002; Ghalib Andang, alias Commander "Robot" who had led the gang which kidnapped foreign tourists and Filipinos from the Malaysian tourist isle of Sipadan, and raped women hostages repeatedly, humiliating the Estrada government for months and collecting millions of dollars in ransom; and Nadzmi Sabdullah, alias Commander "Global", the noisy spokesman of the Sipadan kidnap caper. Also slain was ASG detainee Hasbi Dais alias Lando, who had conducted the Monday "negotiations" and rejected all the governmentâs calls for the groupâs peaceful surrender.

Sounds like there were not enough Fat Ladies Singing on yesterday's announcement

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-16 9:58:50 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:58:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#10

THE ROBOT IS DEAD?

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-16 11:13:59 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:13:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 You can kiss my shiny metal ass!!

Posted by Bender 2005-03-16 1:24:01 PM|| 2005-03-16 1:24:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Looks like lead poisoning got to him.

Posted by Glereger Flineck2275 2005-03-16 4:49:14 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:49:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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