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Oban acts on court inquiry recommendation in Basilan debacle 12/08/2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Oban acts on court inquiry recommendation in Basilan debacle

12/08/2011
Outgoing Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Eduardo Oban Jr. will act on the recommendations of the court of inquiry (CoI) which dug deeper into the Basilan debacle last October that led to the killing of 19 Army troops by combined Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Abu Sayyaf fighters.

AFP spokesman Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr., at a press briefing, said that Oban already received the findings of the CoI, headed by AFP-deputy inspector general Commodore Crispin Mercado.

“He (Oban) will act on it…whatever will be the recommendation of the court of inquiry, whatever that is,” said Burgos, noting that Oban is relinquishing the AFP top post on Monday to still unknown successor..... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20111208nat4.html

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

hindi pa man "blunder" na. ano kalalabasan ng imbestigasyung ito kundi ang mga napatay ang tatatanga.tanga. walang pusong nagtutulak ng substate eh nandaya naman sa halalan!

"Oban himself ordered the creation of the CoI to conduct deeper probe of the Oct. 18 blunder by the Army’s Special Forces units in Al-Barka town against the combined MILF and Abu Sayyaf forces, led by MILF commander Dan Laksaw Asnawi, that resulted in the killing of 19 government troops, four of them junior officers."

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