At 5:00 pm of July 26, 2003, the President convened a full cabinet meeting where Cabuay presented a briefing on the looming coup plot. Thereafter, the President publicly announced for the first time at 8:19 pm in the media that “"a small band of rogue junior officers and soldiers had deserted their posts and illegally brought weapons with them".” The security plan of action was immediately set in motion. Task Force Libra (TF Libra), the counter-coup composite unit of the AFP, was set in motion. The action forces were immediately dispatched in anticipation of the rumored coup.