Noy: Foreign warnings not validated by bus bombing By Aytch S. de la Cruz 01/27/2011

Noy: Foreign warnings not validated by bus bombing

By Aytch S. de la Cruz 01/27/2011
Foreign governments warned of bombing malls, not buses, and therefore none of these terrorist warnings can be considered as validated by the bus bombing in Edsa-Makati Tuesday.

This was the presidential logic, as President Aquino still refuses to admit that the foreign governments’ warning of an imminent terrorist attack on the country, including Metro Manila, was valid, as he yesterday claimed that the latest attack on a passenger bus along Edsa in Makati the other day — which he earlier had said could be the work of unknown terrorist groups — still does not validate the barrage of travel warnings issued by foreign countries against the Philippines then and even now.

Aquino said the previous travel advisories released by at least six foreign governments during the last quarter of 2010 merely concentrated on the supposed imminent terrorist attacks targeting the malls but the buses were not in that picture.

He insisted that there is a huge difference between guarding a bus and a mall, but conveniently omitted that the same advisories also warned of bombs going off anywhere..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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