I Have You (To Save My Day).” Arroyo joins Claire dela Fuente in singing The Carpenters song with Richard Carpenter on the piano in Malacañang.
PSG team presence uncovered
Logs show Lozada bundled into Palace security vehicle
BY DENNIS GADIL
A CONTINGENT of the Presidential
Security Group was part of the welcoming party for ZTE
star witness Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada Jr. last February
5, security logbooks at the Dignitaries Lounge of the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal I (NAIA-I)
showed.
Senate President Manuel Villar and
Blue Ribbon chair Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said they
were aghast to learn that the PSG team arrived an hour
before the plane carrying Lozada touched down and left
at the same time as the convoy bearing the ZTE witness.
"Kailangan nilang ipaliwanag ito.
Ano'ng ginagawa nila nung oras na 'yun? Ordinary
official lang naman si Lozada pero bakit ang daming
kailangan na sumundo sa kanya, may PNP, PSPO, may MIAA
at may PSG pa? Napaka-superstar naman ni Lozada," Villar
said in an interview after the senators yesterday
retraced the route taken by Lozada and his abductors in
an effort to evade media.
Gloria cancels PMA
appearance on assassination threat
Kill-Arroyo plot greeted with skepticism
BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR
PRESIDENT Arroyo has cancelled her
attendance at the Philippine Military Academy Alumni
Homecoming in Baguio City tomorrow because of "serious
security threats," including a possible assassination
plot, Brig. Gen. Romeo Prestoza, commander of the
Presidential Security Group, said yesterday.
Prestoza said the threats discovered by
the police last week are coming from the regional
terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah and its local ally, the
Abu Sayyaf.
He said Arroyo was one of the
personalities targeted by the JI. The other targets are
embassies. Details will have to come from police and
intelligence officials, Prestoza said. There are the
"usual threats from the Left," he added.
THE United Opposition and militant and civil
society groups are staging a "Sobra na, Tama na" mass action
this afternoon in Makati City to press for the resignation of
President Arroyo.
The protest rally from 4 to 8 p.m. at the
Ninoy Aquino Monument will serve as a launching pad for more
mass actions, according to United Opposition (UNO) spokesman
Adel Tamano.
Unlike other rallies, no political
personalities will take center stage, he said.
