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| Southeast Asia |
| Pentagon thug may go back to kidnapping job... |
| 2002-06-22 |
| The escaped leader of the Pentagon kidnapping gang told a radio station in Cotabato City on Thursday that he was considering returning to abducting people for money when the pursuit against him had cooled down. Faisal Marohombsar called up the dxMS radio station in the southern city just a day after he escaped from prison. "I mean, I used to be a mechanic, but then they got those new-fangled electronic ignition systems and the fuel injectors and stuff, and who the hell understands them? Now, kidnapping people and cutting their heads off, that everybody understands..." "I escaped ... because the guards were sleeping. I rushed to the airport to catch the early morning flight to Davao City," he said. He denied that his guards colluded in his escape but later remarked, "Let the police investigate. You know how money works." Somehow we guessed that... An Inquirer report said Marohombsar told the radio station that he bolted jail because a ranking police officer was forcing him to convert to Christianity. It said he told the dxMS that a certain Captain Jimenez had resorted to torture to get him and other inmates to join the Jesus Christ Family Crusade born-again Christian sect. "We were being forced to join and become members of a born-again (Christian) group inside the prison cell. That is against my religion," said Marohombsar, a 45-year-old Muslim of the Maranao tribe in Mindanao. "I mean, Christianity, that's such a whimpy religion. Cut somebody's head off and you'd think a guy'd done something awful..." "I was ready to face all the charges against me but when they started forcing us, physically and mentally, to join the religious group operating inside the center, I decided to plan my escape," he said. I've been to the Philippines a couple times. I didn't like it. People seemed to spend all their time kidnapping each other and torturing them to make them convert to different religions and marrying women they haven't been introduced to by mistake. Except for the gunfire and the artillery strikes, I liked Vietnam better. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |