Correspondence Reports:
Is Michael Meiring back?

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

The "terrorist bombings" this March and April in Davao, the successive bombings of mosques and other public places in Mindanao, and even the bombings in Metro Manila last year are the handiwork of persons receiving orders from US agencies and Malacañang. One of them is Michael Terrence Meiring.

Who is Michael Meiring? He is an American explosives expert who is an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency. He works under the direction of US agencies and their counterparts in the Philippines.

On May 15, 2002, Meiring's modus operandi was exposed when he had to be brought to a hospital in Davao after being hit by a bomb he was preparing inside his rented room at Evergreen Hotel. The news gained prominence because it coincided with the "terrorist bombings" occurring in different parts of Mindanao.

Before an even bigger exposé could take place, agents of the National Security Agency, a Malacañang agency, and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, immediately took Meiring. Upon arrival in Manila, he was immediately whisked to the US embassy and flown to a US naval base in San Diego, California. His hospital fees in Davao were taken care of by Vice Consul Michael Newbill of the US embassy.

Meiring stayed for about ten years in the Philippines. For about a year he resided in Metro Manila and Northern Luzon. But for a long time, he was based in Mindanao.

He armed and taught a lot of people in Mindanao on the use of explosives. He has close ties with the Abu Sayyaf who frequently asked him to purchase arms using US Federal Reserve notes taken from kidnapping.

Meiring proved valuable to the US and Philippine military leadership for the secret coordination of the "terrorist bombings" in Mindanao last year. With the recent onslaught of violence by the US-Arroyo regime, Meiring seems to have returned.

07 April 2003
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