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meades
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posted 29 July 2003 11:52 PM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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But the real damage could come from the explosive allegations made by the mutineers that the government and senior military officers made hand-in-glove deals with Muslim rebels, staged bombings to make them look like guerrilla attacks and were setting the stage for martial law to avoid elections due by May 2004.


*gasp!*
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Mrs Arroyo, who insists she will not run in next year's election, has pledged to get to the heart of the grievances that sparked the mutiny - as she alludes to behind-the-scenes manipulations by some of her political opponents.

ohh!
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"The military was the one that, in the end, forced Estrada out by saying: 'We're not going to obey you anymore'," Mr Rocamora said.

"If you come in as president under those conditions then somewhere in the back of your mind - or in front - you must worry that maybe they'll do to me what they did to Estrada."



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skdadl
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posted 30 July 2003 07:56 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks for this, meades: it explains, or at least helps me to think about, more than the cryptic reports I'd read earlier.

One is left wondering, is one not? Could all the flurry of activity around "anti-terrorist" measures have been nothing more than cynical politics? Did they do a deal with the "tear-ists"?

Tune in same time, same station, probably six months from now or so, when this story may arise again to puzzle North Americans (who are mainly puzzled by it because no one is covering it in the meantime).


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