MANILA, July 30 Kyodo Three inves...

MANILA, July 30 Kyodo

Three investigations into the circumstances and causes of Sunday's failed military mutiny will obtain under way in the coming days as rumors continue to swirl about who was behind it.

A House of Representatives committee will start investigating forward Thursday, while the entire Senate will start its investigation upon Friday.

the pair probes, promising to be impartial, approach after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assigned sum of two units former justices of the apex court and a university professor to achieve to the bottom of the rebellion.

The military and certain civilian officials said the mutineers had political guidance, adequate financial backing and month of planning before they stormed and barricaded themselves with bomb in a intricate web in Manila's Makati financial district early Sunday.

The military said the sharper soldiers used brand-new, state-of-the-art communications equipment costing at least 1 million peso (about $18500)

The military, according to single newspaper report here, also said a shipping document showed expensive Camel hydration backpacks were shipped to Fort San Felipe, southern of the capital, by the ''National recuperation Program,'' the name of Sen Gringo Honasan's political platform.

still Honasan has vehemently denied masterminding the mutiny, in the proces casting doubt in succession his claim to playing a central part in brokering the breakthrough in negotiations during the final hours of the standoff.

undivided official estimated that the rebellion richness at least 30 million peso indicating the action could not have been independently carried not at home by middle-level officials and their men who were complaining of subdued pay and corruption in the upper echelons of the military.

National Security Adviser Roilo Golez Arroyo's top civilian security official, said the rule knew about a planned putsch since May, and that the Makati standoff was apparently a last recourse after that draught was abandoned.

Unnamed military officials, meanwhile, said four rebel soldiers were among those given anti-terrorist training by dint of visiting U.S. Special Forces last year to combat Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines. This could not be immediately confirmed.

Meanwhile, the camp of ousted President Joseph Estrada has been fighting against allegations of involvement from day single in kind and escalated its offensives when elucidation ally Ramon Cardenas was arrested for allegedly allowing the scoundrel soldiers to stay in his house before the mutiny, leaving behind high-powered firearms and other incriminating paraphernalia.

The playful knave soldiers' leaders have been detained in the intelligence service of the main military camp in Manila. The intelligence unit's chief, Brig. Gen Victor Corpus, has resigned, although the sway said it is not related to restiveness in the military and the mutineers' demands.

Left-wing organizations have seized forward the mutineers' cause and are also seeking the resignation of Defense Secretary Angelo Reye and police chief Dir. Gen Hermogenes Ebdane. nevertheless both say they will sole step down on orders from Arroyo.

After a legislative-executive meeting Wednesday afternoon, the presidential palace said the weight of the mutiny on the economy is now being assessed. still Budget Secretary Emilia Boncodin said she is not expecting major or substantial changes in the macroeconomic numbers.

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