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Thursday, August 30, 2007

 

RP in no hurry to bring home Joma

By Angelo S. Samonte Reporter

The government will let Dutch authorities finish prosecuting Jose Maria Sison before it decides if it should work for Sison’s return to the country to face cases filed in the Philippine courts.

“We will allow the Dutch judicial process to go on and the Philippine government will not interfere at this time. We will wait for the conclusion of the case before we consider ways of bringing Sison home to face prosecution here,” Norberto Gonzales, the national security adviser, said Wednesday.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

In a bizarre twist of fate, the government that sought for decades to jail Jose Maria Sison now feels obligated to defend him in a foreign court.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY: The chief of the Marines has been named the new commander of military forces in Mindanao.

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The Senate referred the “Hello, Garci” investigation to a new committee on Wednesday—after it was tossed back earlier to the plenary by the rules committee.

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RENO, Nevada: US President George W. Bush raised the specter of a “nuclear holocaust” in the Middle East if Iran gets atomic weapons, and vowed he would not let that happen.

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