A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines (STRATFOR)

STRATFOR ^ | August 26, 2010 | Scott Stewart

[South Hawthorne]

A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

On Aug. 23, Rolando Mendoza, a former senior police inspector with the Manila police department, boarded a tourist bus in downtown Manila and took control of the vehicle, holding the 25 occupants (tourists from Hong Kong and their Philippine guides) hostage. Mendoza, who was dressed in his police inspector’s uniform, was armed with an M16-type rifle and at least one handgun.

A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

[South Hawthorne]

It's hard to imagine a less competent operation, but, then again, this is the philippines, a third world backwater.

I thank God that our police and military forces are the best, most highly trained in the world.

[CPT Clay]

I love Stratfor!

[sushiman]

I wonder if people around the world called a “ third world backwater “ when when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives killed all thosoe people at Waco ???

[Patton@Bastogne]

Nope ... Waco was pre-meditated murder ...

[sushiman]

Right - even worse than 3rd world backwater !

[South Hawthorne]

I wonder if people around the world called a “ third world backwater “ when when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives killed all thosoe people at Waco ???

Only if they don't know what an apt analogy is.

The criminal enterprise that was Jake Reno and The Arkansas Love Machine doesn't compare to an operation so inept that one could be forgiven if they thought it was an ingrained part of the culture.