Apparitions
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
The Glorietta 2 blast has come back to haunt us.
Or, more specifically, the ghost of the administration past is spooking us... and it’s not Halloween yet. And, really, what could be more horrifying than the scary reminders of what went on in the last 10 years of our lives — laid out, cut open, probed with a razor-sharp tongue and all the bloody bits examined without mercy?
If you recall, the Glorietta 2 explosion happened in October 2007, at the height of the ZTE-NBN broadband deal controversy, which linked the Arroyo couple, along with some of their loyal officials, to an alleged overpriced contract scheme with a Chinese company. An impeachment complaint was already hanging over then-President Gloria Arroyo’s head.
When the mall blast happened, killing 11 and injuring over 100, the earliest reports quoting investigators at the scene mentioned the finding of a certain component used to make high explosives such as C4. (Indeed I distinctly remember seeing a female officer telling a news crew about finding traces of some component at the scene.) Succeeding police interviews, however, became more guarded afterwards..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101027com5.html
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