Malacañang’s Kill-Trillanes Plot Uncovered

AFP rogue chief General Esperon is capable of carrying-out sinister ‘Oplan Alan’. Ltsg. Trillanes victory on Monday polls is big slap to his bogus Commander-in-Chief Gloria Arroyo. God saves the Philippines!


Malacañang’s kill-Trillanes plot uncovered

Daily Tribune 05/14/2007

Supporters of Genuine Opposition (GO) senatorial candidate and Navy Lt. SG Antonio Trillanes IV have revealed an alleged Malacañang assassination plot against him that will be executed when he votes in today’s mid-term elections.

Text messages from the Trillanes camp began circu-lating last Saturday, saying the Arroyo administration has devised “Oplan (Operation Plan) Alan” for the assassination of the GO senatorial bet.

The operation plan is named after Trillanes’ deceased son.

“Trillanes’ camp uncovers Oplan Alan of the GMA (President Arroyo’s initials) administration. It is a plot to assassinate candidate Trillanes when he gets out of detention to vote on Monday and blame it on the NPA (New People’s Army). Let’s pass this message to let plotters know that we are watching them,” the text messages read.

The military yesterday assured the security of Trillanes, saying the Marine escorts of the GO senatorial

candidate would be capable of thwarting any attempt on his life when he casts his ballot in Caloocan City (Metro Manila) today.

“His security will be taken care of,” Marine spokesman Lt. Col. Ariel Caculitan said during a telephone interview, referring to Trillanes, who is detained at the Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City (Metro Manila).

Trillanes is in jail on charges of rebellion before the Makati City Regional Trial Court.

He is allegedly one of the six top core leaders of the Magdalo group of junior military officers who staged the short-lived Oakwood mutiny in July 2003.

“Definitely, he (Trillanes) will be escorted (by Marine custodians),” Caculitan said.

Trillanes and his fellow mutiny leaders are also undergoing trial in the military, through a general court martial, for violation of the Article of War 96 or conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman.

Defense Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. last Thursday said the NPA and its political wing, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), are supporting and endorsing the candidacy of Trillanes.

Caculitan said the Marine Corps has no information to support the alleged assassination plot.

“So far, we have not received any information about threats against him. We have no reports about such information,” he added.

Early this month, Trillanes said Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. had issued a directive to military commanders to ensure a 12-0 victory for Malacanang’s Team Unity senatorial candidates.

This was belied by Esperon, who challenged the Navy officer to substantiate his allegation.

National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales also yesterday linked Trillanes to the CPP-NPA).

Gonzales said they will cooperate with the Department of National Defense (DND) to pin down Trillanes on the alleged link.

He, however, added he will pursue the investigation of the alleged link after today’s polls so that the political opposition will not take advantage of it for election purposes.

“Why not (conduct the probe)? Even before, we already had information they (in the Magdalo group had) contact with the CPP-NPA,” Gonzales said.

He added they will make public their evidence against Trillanes “in due time.”

Ebdane also last Thursday said the CPP-NPA is helping Trillanes in his campaign but the Defense chief refused to comment on who initiated the “arrangement.”

“This is a specific case, based on the intelligence report we got. It is probably true (that the CPP-NPA is helping Trillanes),” he added.

Ebdane said they do want to go into details “to protect our source, this is for the security of our source.”

While denying that the DND and Armed Forces leadership are behind the “hate campaign” against Trillanes, Ebdane, however, failed to control his emotions when he made a public appeal not to vote for candidates who are only popular but have no background on governance.

When asked who are the candidates he was referring to, the Defense chief said,” Even if I am a presidential appointee, who could stop me from voting for Team Unity?”

Sherwin C. Olaes and PNA