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                    [ArticleID] => 235960
                    [Title] => Separate NBI probe on Parang blast urged
                    [Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — Victims of the Jan. 4 bombing here have called on President Arroyo to order the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a separate inquiry into the incident, alleging that the suspects whom local authorities have implicated were mere "fall guys."


The blast, the worst-ever in this town’s history, killed 22 people, mostly members of influential Muslim families, and wounded 71 others, including the town’s re-electionist mayor, Vivencio Bataga.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235738 [Title] => Two more suspects in Parang bombing fall [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Authorities arrested the other day two more suspects in the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball game in Parang, Maguindanao that killed 22 people and caused serious injuries to 71 others, among them the town’s re-electionist mayor, Vivencio Bataga.

Bataga, chairman of the municipal peace and order council, identified the suspects as Khalid Macapaar and a certain Omar, both nabbed by lawmen in a secluded barangay in Matanog, Maguindanao.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235381 [Title] => Suspect in Maguindanao bombing cries torture [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — A suspect in the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball court in Parang, Maguindanao called on President Arroyo yesterday to intervene in his case as he was allegedly tortured by soldiers to implicate two key political leaders in the incident.

Officials of the Maguindanao provincial jail said the suspect, Kusain Taha, earlier identified as Omar Ramalan, was turned over to them already injured and "blindfolded" by members of the military police.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234855 [Title] => Central Mindanao leaders seek deeper probe into Parang bombing [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Religious and political leaders in Central Mindanao called yesterday on the police and the military to conduct a "deeper probe" into the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball game in Parang, Maguindanao that killed 22 people and left 71 others wounded.

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police, meanwhile, are set to file criminal charges today against Omar Romalan, a former commander of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) who had been implicated in the attack.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234729 [Title] => Former MNLF commander held for Parang blast [Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — The military has detained a former commander of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) implicated in the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball game here that killed 22 people.

Omar Ramalan, also known as Commander Bagi-Bagi and a resident of nearby Matanog, Maguindanao, was arrested Friday afternoon by soldiers of the Army’s 64th Infantry Battalion manning a checkpoint at a secluded stretch of the Secretary Narciso Ramos Highway. He was on his way to Parang from Kapatagan, Lanao del Sur.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234766 [Title] => Ex-MNLF commander timbog sa Parang bombing [Summary] => Bagsak kalaboso ang isang dating commander ng Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) matapos iturong sangkot din sa pambobomba sa isang gymnasium sa Parang, Maguindanao noong Enero 4 na kumitil ng buhay ng 16 katao habang 102 pa ang nasugatan matapos itong masakote sa isang checkpoint sa lalawigang ito kamakalawa. [DatePublished] => 2004-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) ) )
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