Gringo Captured

[Devastator]

Well, Gringo Honasan has been captured early this morning and is now at Asian Hospital for his foot injury treatment. Baka tumakas na naman iyan. (hopefully not).

[Isuzoom]

kaya binali ang paa.........di na makatakas

[chua_riwap]

Sunod na headline:


"GRINGO ESCAPES!"

[BoEinG_747]

na naman .....tapos PUGA uli

[just4u]

sino kayang makakatanggap ng REWARD?...

[roninblade]

speculating: kaya ata nagka-injury kasi nag-attempt tumakas kaninang umaga.

di ko alam yung whole news pero napanood ko this morning na nagbalak pa tumakas nung nalaman nyang huhlihin na sya. kaso lang surrounded na pala talaga kaya wala na sya nagawa.

[NightRock]

nag ka 10 tahi daw sa paa ng tumalon sa second floor.. tapang naman feeling stunt man... Si ben tumbling kaya?? (Lito Lapid) kelan magiging fugitives

[Memphis Raines]

You know, Gringo should stop his fantasies about forming his own government, taking over or the very passe coup de etat.

He's been doing this for decades and so far wala syang napapala kundi puro warrants for his arrest and a lot of white hair.

He is already old and its quite embarrasing at that .

[n5110]

dami nga patrol cars at uniformed policeman sa labas nung dumaan ako para kunin oto ko sa basement, na surprise lang ako dahil walang nag iinspect na mga oto na galing sa basement. kaya kung makatakas ulet si pareng gringo kangkungan na naman ang hepe ng pulis

[russpogi]

From ABS-CBN News:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topoftheh...?StoryId=56258

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National (as of 9:56 AM)

Honasan captured in QC

A fugitive former colonel and senator accused of masterminding a coup plot against President Arroyo was arrested on Wednesday, authorities said.

Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, implicated in nearly every coup bid hatched in the Philippines in the past 20 years, was caught a couple of hours after midnight in Manila after police spent weeks tracking him through intercepted mobile phone calls.

"We have spent so much time and resources to get him. Now we can proceed with the process," Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said.

Prosecutors want to question Honasan, hailed as a hero of the "people power" uprising that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, over an alleged conspiracy by rogue troops, political foes and communists to oust Arroyo in February.

Honasan has been in hiding since February 23, the eve of planned protests by leftist activists against Arroyo that the government has said were to be used by some soldiers to withdraw support for the president and spark an uprising against her.

The two-time senator tried to escape arrest by jumping from the second floor of a house, injuring his foot, an officer involved in the raid said.

State prosecutors have charged 45 people in connection with February's alleged plot, including four communist guerrilla leaders, a former ambassador, a former state university president and more than 20 soldiers and police officers.

Many analysts suspected Mrs. Arroyo, who has defeated two impeachments bids over allegations of vote-rigging and corruption, of ramping up the alleged conspiracy against her to allow security forces wider scope to crack down on her enemies.

The Southeast Asian country is no stranger to rumored and actual plots after more than a dozen coup attempts in the last two decades and popular revolts that ousted presidents in 1986 and 2001 with the backing of generals and powerful bishops.

Honasan is already facing rebellion charges over a failed mutiny by young officers in 2003.