Wednesday, January 18, 2012

we're number one

The photo that caught the assassin is Time Magazine's number one "viral" photo
more at the Inquirer

so why was he killed? from AsianCorrespondent

Dagsa was targeted, police said, because of his efforts to wipe out crime from his neighborhood....Although from the looks of it Dagsa’s murder was not a contract killing — the gunman, Arnel Buenflor, had an axe to grind with Dagsa, who testified against him one time – it nevertheless underscored the reality that, in the Philippines, murder is quite an easy thing to commit.

Did you know, for example, that you can have somebody killed here for as low as 5,000 pesos, or less than $100? We don’t have a dearth of guns for hire in this country, where crime festers in every urban community and where “loose firearms” proliferate especially during the violent election seasons.

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