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| Philippine rebels deny lacing explosives with human feces, snake venom |
| 2013-09-06 |
| The New People's Army (NPA) Southern Mindanao regional command strongly denied contaminating its explosives with human feces and snake venom. Rigoberto Sanchez, NPA regional command spokesman, accused the military of "inventing" stories after it claimed that traces of human feces and snake venom were found in the wounds of the seven soldiers hit in a recent landmine explosion in Barangay Napnapan in Pantukan, Compostela Valley. He called such claims "malicious and wildly concocted military propaganda." In an e-mailed statement Sanchez said, "The seven AFP troops who were hurt in a bomb blast in Pantukan (on September 3) were hit by command-detonated explosives and not the falsely reported pressure-type bombs that are banned by international laws like the Ottawa Treaty." He admitted that the NPA uses "guerrilla warfare weapons, such as but not limited to, command-detonated explosives made up of traditional, non-biologically toxic ingredients”, but to engage in a highly criminal biological and chemical warfare is “pure invention." Sanchez said, "The bacteria and poison are not found in the NPA bombs, but in the AFP headquarters, camps, detachments and in the AFP echelons itself." Lieutenant Victor Dato, a medical officer of Camp Panacan Station Hospital, said human feces and snake venom that were found in the injuries of the soldiers could cause death because of bacteria that can contaminate the wounds. Sanchez said the Philippine military has also accused the NPA of systemizing its landmine distribution in the region by way of color coding per province. He said, "Major Jake Obligado and other spin doctors at the Eastern Mindanao Command-AFP are desperate to reverse the tide of revolutionary guerrilla warfare, so desperate, that they have to copy methods used by the US imperialist military strategists in its current war against Syria. "By alluding that the NPAs are terrorists, who hatch bombs and weapons of mass destruction in chemical and biological forms, Obligado and EastMinCom propagandists are copycats to the Obama government that is now justifying its military occupation in Syria by accusing the Assad regime of engaging in chemical weapons attack." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 "Well, EVERYTHING in our HQ has feces on it. It's Miguel -- he has problems." |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-09-06 12:30 |
| #1 Brings new meaning to the phrase "explosive bowel movement..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-06 07:03 |