Friday, January 30, 2015

Opinion: American role in the botched SAF operation

Opinion piece in the Philippine Star (Jan 31): American role in the botched SAF operation  (in the



http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/01/31/1418599/american-role-botched-saf-operation

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  1. Satur Ocampo, a long-time Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) activist, continues the ongoing commie disinformation effort to implicate the US as somehow being involved in Mamasapano tragedy.

    Ocampo served in the communist underground in the 1970s was captured, imprisoned and tortured under the Marcos dictatorship. He subsequently escaped from detention and surfaced as the chief negotiator for the National Democratic Front, the political wing of the CPP, during the 1986 peace negotiations with the administration of Corazon Aquino following the ouster of Marcos.

    He went back underground with the NPA following the failure of peace talks but was captured again in 1989. He was released in 1992 as good will gesture during another round of peace negotiations under President Ramos.

    Since then Ocampo has remained an active member in a number of above ground, legal CPP front organizations, to include serving as a key leader and Congress member from Bayan Muna (People First), the main CPP-associated party-list political party.

    He has been and continues to function as key propagandist for the CPP and the underground national democratic movement.

    [Note: However, his analysis at times is highly questionable. Take his argument of how the adoption of the OPLAN name "Wolverine" some how proves that operation was planned by the US because the "Wolverine pertains to ferocious furred small carnivores found in North America" and the name is different from other Tagalog-derived OPLAN names.

    However, I would point out that Wolverine is also the name of a well-known X-Men comic book superhero who fights evil and stands for truth and justice. Given the popularity of comic books in the Philippines and the wide popularity of the X-Men movies, it could just as easily be argued, that given the macho nature of PNP special action forces, that name Wolverine could have been selected because of its association with a superhero who uses might for right. But of course that analysis doesn't fit well into Ocampo's anti-US propaganda smear job.]

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