A SUPPOSEDLY good corporate citizen like Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) was unlikely to do anything that would be a great disservice
to the country. But ALI showed what is under its hood by paying its own so-called experts to contradict the findings of the PNP and volunteer experts from the Australian Federal Police and Israel.
ALI should have picked the proper time and forum to bring its experts out from the closet. As it was, ALI frittered away the fine corporate image it nurtured over many years. It took a foreign dignitary, US Ambassador
Kristie Kenney, to remind everybody, including ALI, that those saying otherwise should realize what a terror attack in Metro Manila would
mean to the country as a whole.
ALI must rethink its hidden suggestion that terrorists or political agitators were behind the Glorietta 2 explosion. The ploy — obviously an advance defense for possible charges of gross negligence resulting in deaths and injuries to persons — is a public relations disaster.
– Armando Batara, Parañaque City, Philippines (via e-mail)
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November 7th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
What is the real wrong? That ALI hired paid experts? Where you get experts for free?
It is the most wrong that PNP cannot explain why they found RDX and even daid they are checking whether it is military or mining type, and now when it backfired at the military and the administration, there has “never been any RDX” found.
In addition, LPGdoes not blow that powerful out of a closed room, there is not oxygen enough and this kind of gas is heavier than air, also not so easy mixing with air than other gases which go up but the would have smelled in the whole ALI. Look at mine explosions, that is Methan as argued coming from waste. Never it blows up the whole mine and even miners can survive, their big problem is whether or not the explosion has used all the oxygen for breathing, not the explosion itself as long as they are not hit by the flame.
Whatever happened at ALI, PNP has to explain their 180 degree turning, why they traced RDX but later claim they never found. If there has been a trigger bomb that damaged the tanks, then traces of RDX and of LPG exists. A smaller bomb was not hard to bring in, just use a tank as camouflage, nobody will check LPG tanks.
By the way, PNP laboratory should have given to the foreign experts withelectronic devices the same samples where they traced RDX, not let them look for samples at the incident site where anything was thrown and turned around already.