Edilberto Adan
Edilberto Adan
Retired Lieutenant General Edilberto Pardo Adan was a member of the Zenarosa Commission and was the Executive Director of the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces Agreement. His last assignment while in the active service was Commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Southern Command...
difficult fear injuring pursue
It is very difficult to pursue them for fear of injuring hostages,
apply military pressure strategy talk time
The strategy is to apply military pressure and at the same time talk to them and communicate,
concrete few hope information next
We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages,
arms property
The arms are the property of the ARMM,
good past three trend
very good trend in the past three weeks.
capability given means
For every $100,000 of ransom that is given to these terrorists, that means much more capability and recruits to the movement,
calling citizens help police providing takes verify
It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.
aware paid
We are not aware of any ransom paid for any of the hostages,
assistance gathering information intelligence
What we need now is any assistance on information gathering or intelligence gathering,
group identified pursuit specific terrorists
They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have launched pursuit operations,
contact maintain mission prevent
The mission is clear: to maintain contact so as to prevent them from escaping. We are not here to disengage. We want to engage,
avoid befall harm
There will be casualties, ... but we will avoid any harm that may befall the hostages.
armed bandit conflict groups logistics men sustained
This conflict could not be sustained by bandit groups of armed men without logistics support,
believe government groups motivation policy south stick stop
The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There will be no negotiation or ransom with these kidnappers. By doing that we believe we will stop their motivation from some groups there in the south to do the same thing.