Datu Andal Ampatuan Sr, the patriarch of the Ampatuan warlord clan, is a very close ally of Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Ampatuan’s role in the 2004 Hello Garci operation was substantial. Administration party candidates got ALL the votes of the Maguindanaoans last presidential elections, courtesy of course, by the Ampatuans whom election observers say, intimidated [...]

Lt. General Delfin Bangit, Mrs. Arroyo’s mistah and most favorite military officer, was heard over radio defending the recent changes in leadership in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Bangit, whose class is being blamed for reportedly instigating a so-called “Oplan August Moon”, says that PMA Class 1978 deserves to be at the helm of the [...]