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Rebels used guns issued to Gringo, papers show.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Tony S. Bergonia
SEVERAL high-powered firearms that were reported missing from the inventory of the Armed Forces and later found in the possession of the Abu Sayyaf bandit group had been issued to Sen. Gregorio Honasan when he was still a colonel in the service.
According to documents obtained by the Inquirer, Honasan had acknowledged receiving in November 1986 two M-14 rifles and several other firearms that were later recovered in Bataan and Sulu.
The mutinous soldiers calling themselves the Magdalo group that attempted a coup last Sunday had accused top military and defense department officials of selling ammunition to Muslim guerrillas, particularly the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
According to the documents, the Armed Forces had been alerted as early as May 2000 on the loss of high-powered firearms that were later discovered in the hands of communist and Muslim rebels.
The weapons, mostly M-14 Armalite rifles, were found among the communist insurgents after encounters with government soldiers and after military raids on suspected Muslim rebel hideouts.
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