Council eyes reclaimed Manila Bay land for squatters BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 08/29/2010

Council eyes reclaimed Manila Bay land for squatters

BLURBAL THRUSTS

Louie Logarta

08/29/2010
British security specialist Charles Shoebridge, without his having to explicitly say so, is saying the buck stops with Senior Supt. Orlando Yebra of the Manila Police District.

Yebra, in case you didn’t know, is the police officer who stood as the principal negotiator last Monday during the hostage drama at the Luneta staged by a disgruntled former police officer wherein eight unfortunate Hong Kong tourists lost their lives, and for which some 125,000 OFWs, mostly domestic helpers, now risk being discriminated against by their Chinese employers.

In the BBC News Web site, Shoebridge, who had reportedly worked with Scotland Yard and the British Army, said in the article “Ten things the Philippines bus siege police got wrong” that Colonel Yebra had missed several opportunities to put an early end to the crisis which due to the fumbling and bumbling of concerned police officials, has made the country the laughingstock of the world.

Most notable was (as shown in an accompanying photograph embedded in the article) when Yebra, reputedly the most experienced negotiator in the MPD, having studied sophisticated anti-terrorism tactics in Australia, England and the US, and the other unidentified policeman wearing a crew-cut and an orange T-shirt were talking to the hostage-taker who was standing in the doorway of the bus with his M-16 Armalite rifle nonchalantly slung down his right side a mere three feet away.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100829com4.html