Bus Hostages in Manila

[H2Andy]

MANILA (Reuters) - Hostage-takers armed with grenades freed children they had held captive in a bus for over nine hours in the Philippine capital on Wednesday, live television showed.

At least two people believed to be the hostage-takers surrendered and were escorted to police vehicles.

 

[Narcd_dvr]

Thank God that the hostage crisis ended without any loss of life.

31 children freed as hostage crisis ends


INQUIRER.net
Last updated 06:57pm (Mla time) 03/28/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- At least 31 school children and four teachers who were held hostage inside a bus in Manila for almost 12 hours Wednesday were freed by their armed captors who have surrendered to police.

Armando Ducat Jr., the alleged leader, had agreed to release his captives at 7 p.m. following day-long negotiations with police. His two accomplices have yet to be identified.

 

[Dadvocate]

As I understand things, the guy who was instrumental in the negotiations and later the handing over of grenades was none other than Senator Ramon "BONG" Revilla Jr himself.

This spanks of orchestration, all the way down to the chants for the kidnappers and the press ops that followed. The guy was handed over with kid gloves for crying out loud. He’s have had his face planted in cement in any other country where children in REAL danger are valued. I don’t believe there was ever any threat to the lives of anyone. When the guy kidnapped the priests, the grenades were fake as well.

This puts a whole new layer to the phrase wag the dog. I can’t believe that people in my host country fall for this claptrap. It’s a disgrace!

The best thing that could happen would be to toss that criminal and his cohorts in jail so that any other moron who thinks about this kind of political ploy involving children will think twice.

I bet pesos to doughnuts that these guys get set free after the elections.

Cheers!

 

[midwestdvr]

As I understand things, the guy who was instrumental in the negotiations and later the handing over of grenades was none other than Senator Ramon "BONG" Revilla Jr himself.

This spanks of orchestration, all the way down to the chants for the kidnappers and the press ops that followed. The guy was handed over with kid gloves for crying out loud. He’s have had his face planted in cement in any other country where children in REAL danger are valued. I don’t believe there was ever any threat to the lives of anyone. When the guy kidnapped the priests, the grenades were fake as well.

This puts a whole new layer to the phrase wag the dog. I can’t believe that people in my host country fall for this claptrap. It’s a disgrace!

The best thing that could happen would be to toss that criminal and his cohorts in jail so that any other moron who thinks about this kind of political ploy involving children will think twice.

I bet pesos to doughnuts that these guys get set free after the elections.

Cheers!

that's philippine politics for you

 

[jonix]

As I understand things, the guy who was instrumental in the negotiations and later the handing over of grenades was none other than Senator Ramon "BONG" Revilla Jr himself.

This spanks of orchestration, all the way down to the chants for the kidnappers and the press ops that followed. The guy was handed over with kid gloves for crying out loud. He’s have had his face planted in cement in any other country where children in REAL danger are valued. I don’t believe there was ever any threat to the lives of anyone. When the guy kidnapped the priests, the grenades were fake as well.

This puts a whole new layer to the phrase wag the dog. I can’t believe that people in my host country fall for this claptrap. It’s a disgrace!

The best thing that could happen would be to toss that criminal and his cohorts in jail so that any other moron who thinks about this kind of political ploy involving children will think twice.

I bet pesos to doughnuts that these guys get set free after the elections.

Cheers!

can't agree with you more. i'd say it was staged. saw chavit?