I heard about the good Senator’s walkout after lunch. I saw the tanks rolling to the Manila Pen when I was getting out of work. The worst was over by the time I got home.
I’ll try (half-heartedly) to avoid the temptation to draw conclusions from this aborted coup. Instead, let me pose some questions that flashed through my brain as I was hitting the “Refresh” button on the Inquirer website:
A Muslim congressman who was a close ally of the president and suspected of having ties to the Abu Sayyaf, has been killed in a blast that ripped through a section of the Philippine House of Representatives… Wahab Akbar, who represented southern Basilan island, died of his injuries in hospital on Tuesday. (Al-Jazeera)
The lowdown the wife and I got from Dr. J, who was working at the FEU Hospital near the Batasang Pambansa Complex, was that the bomb had been intended for Congressman Wahab Akbar, the Distinguished Gentleman from Basilan.
Photo by Ryan Anson / San Francisco Chronicle
An interview I heard on the radio later confirmed that the blast had likely come from a remote-controlled IED, detonated by someone within visual range of Akbar.
Akbar had unfortunately developed a routine that his enemies were quick to use to their advantage – Read more…
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