Glorietta Bombing Death Toll Rises to Eleven
The death toll from Friday’s Glorietta 2 mall explosion is now at 11, after one of the victims in critical condition died before dawn Sunday.
Makati Councilor Junjun Binay identified the 11th fatality as Ricardo Betras, 24.
Betras died around 2:23 am at the Ospital ng Makati.
It just keeps getting worse and worse. That no one has taken credit for these deaths only suggests that the person responsible is sitting somewhere silently satisfied with the results.
Ex-Soldier Says Glorietta Bomb Too Clean for Terrorists
Former Philippine military man Ram Catadman left the following comments over at Manolo Quezon’s blog regarding the Glorietta bombing:
If it was a serious terrorist bombing (Islamist/NPA, etc.), the body count could have been more, the target should be a crowded area, and the deaths or injuries should have been more than blast-related or “shock wave†induced. We should have seen more blood, dismemberment, and terror. As it is, it was a clean blomb, more percussive (just for loud noise) than destructive, they did not find traces, of course they never will. RDX is the signature of C4, if they insist on looking for the detonator in this case a blasting cap it has already been blown to smithereens. If this were tradditional terrorists, shrapnel should have found, (nails, ball bearings, etc.) but there isn’t. This was intentional, clean, and well aimed, with deliberate calculation for as low collateral damage as possible, designed to “make a loud noise.†Terrorists, the genuine ones’ message is “HATE†so in their attacks its always calculated for maximum casualty, grim, bloody, terror.
Only old tacticians are so predictable, beware of pacifists, they are as destructive as those who cry “foul!â€
The water will wash out traces of the explosive, very convenient, it washed itself. I heard earlier that they found traces of RDX (C4 related). What a shame, if they confirmed C4, not many people has access to it, only the military and mining companies (legally), then it will appear we were attacked by angry miners. The MILF, RSM, have nothing to gain by bombing this area, they can get national attention just by ambushing our soldiers in their territory where they have they have terrain advantage.
If you were a terrorist who stole hard-to-obtain military explosives, you certainly wouldn’t waste them on a few restos. You’d stick that C-4 near some support columns and bring down the building. Something definitely doesn’t add up here.
