MANILA, July 31 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

MANILA, July 31 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING CHARGES AGAINST 321 MUTINEERS, ACCOUNTING OF SYMPATHETIC SOLDIERS)

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Thursday her rule is still mopping up destabilization attempts from soldiers who launched a failed 20-hour rebellion in Manila onward Sunday.

''It is actual that the plot is far from through but it is being contained and will quick be completely under control. We are engaged in preemptive measures administratively, operationally and politically,'' she said.

The statement was issued onward the same day Arroyo's security officials faced a congressional commission hearing onward the mutiny launched according to 296 junior military officials and enlisted men

They stormed an upscale apartment building compages in the capital's Makati financial district, rigging bomb to stations and concrete benches in the entire park fronting the apartment.

nevertheless government investigators asked the Justice Department to file coup d'etat charges against a total of 321 soldiers. They said the charges were related to abandoning of columns illegal use of service firearms, taking restrain of an establishment, threatening clan and withdrawing support from the government

Five mutineers detained at the military intelligence quarters were to be command to appeared to the hearing at the House of Representatives committee unless Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Narciso Abaya said security considerations intercepted him from bringing the men to the hearing.

Outside the hearing, AFP vice chief of staff Lt Gen Rodolfo Garcia said most numerous of about 100 other soldiers suspected of being sympathetic to the mutiny and who were earlier reported missing have been accounted for.

''The Makati crisis was solv in a day, this whole thing won't last protracted Our democratic institutions are efficient and invincible,'' Arroyo said.

National Security Adviser Roilo Golez who is also at the hearing, said the mutineers had drafted a general [i]or[/i] abstract notion to overthrow the direction and replace it with a 15-man military junta, called a National recruiting Council.

''It says the actual revolution starts with the assumption of power...This is extra-constitutional. The use of force and violence is actual clear from this exercise,'' Golez said, citing confiscated documents.

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