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Friday, February 15, 2002
Abu�s long-standing ties
to global terrorism bared
By Dorian Zumel Sicat
Abu Sayyaf bandits were involved in international terrorist
operations that targeted American facilities long before the Sept. 11
attacks that sparked US President George W. Bush�s global campaign
against the al-Qaida and its allies.
Philippine defense and police intelligence sources told THE MANILA
TIMES that Abu Sayyaf leaders had met with terrorist masterminds of
several atrocities just before US targets were hit.
Although Philippine authorities advised American authorities of the
alliance between the Abu Sayyaf, Osama bin Laden�s al-Qaida, and
American neo-nazis, the US appeared to ignore the warnings; until
Sept. 11.
Strange bedfellows
But according to the sources, who have requested anonymity, investigations have been
reopened, and in silence, about the relationship between neo-nazis, right-wing
Christian groups, the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims�NOI)
, the Abu Sayyaf, and al-Qaida.
This, the sources pointed out, was what prompted the Philippine government to accept
US military aid in the form of Balikatan in Basilan.
The Abu Sayyaf and other Muslim insurgent groups are no longer just internal
Philippine problems, the sources stressed. They have become part of a global terror
network that includes �very strange bedfellows.�
Angeles pals
Before slain Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) co-founder Edwin Angeles surrendered in 1994 to
military authorities at the Armed Forces Southern Command (Southcom) in Zamboanga
City, he met with Ramzi Youssef, convicted mastermind o
f the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
That meeting, which also had four other Filipinos and foreign Muslim extremists, was
unique�in that the group was meeting for the last time with Oklahoma City bombing
accomplice Terry Nichols.
Nichols had married Filipino women but he was a strange ally, being a member of the
American ultra-right movement.
But even before that, in 1993, when the Abu Sayyaf was in its infancy, the same group
met with Nichols and another American� believed to have been executed Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh�at a Dole labeling plant nea
r General Santos City.
Spilling the beans
According to the defense intelligence source, while under tactical interrogation,
Angeles told National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police
(PNP) officials that the subjects at the 1994 meeting we
re actual terror targets. He mentioned the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, bombed
April 19, 1995, and another, more damaging attack on the twin towers of the World
Trade Center in New York.
It became clear that an international terror cell had been established in the
Philippines.
Philippine cops arrested an accomplice of Youssef in 1995, while trying to track down
members of an assassination plot on visiting Pope John Paul II. Youssef was later
arrested in Pakistan, an operation that owed a lot to
Philippine intelligence inputs.
Reluctance
�It took Sept. 11 to unleash a �no-stones-unturned� campaign against global
terrorism,� confirmed a top-ranking police officer who regularly liaisons with
American anti-terrorist officers.
US officials, he added, have privately admitted they knew for sometime that the
Philippines was a primary service and training area for jihad (holy war) terrorists
and other terror groups, including American and European
neo-nazis.
�The US knew all along that McVeigh, Nichols, and other rightists have had a tactical
alliance with the Abu Sayyaf,� a confidential source in Boulder, Colorado also told
the Times.
�But to go after the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines would be a violation of your
country�s sovereignty. The joint military training exercises (Balikatan) present a
legitimate excuse for clandestine US operations against th
e Abu Sayyaf.�
Concerns
However, the US-based source said the Abu Sayyaf is only part of the problem.
�It�s only the wagging tail. The head remains hidden in Ermita, Davao City, General
Santos City, and in America�s heartland. Going after the Abu Sayyaf is like cutting
off a lizard�s tail. It will only grow a new one,� th
e source stressed.
While Philippine officials blame Americans for inaction, US authorities told THE TIMES
they are bothered by the failure of the local intelligence community to conduct
preemptive operations against the nests of global terr
orism here.
Volumes of documents, many of which are court documents, establish enough evidence
that the Philippines is a major service area for global terrorists, not all of whom
are Muslim. Had both the US and the Philippines acted
in preemptive operations to break the terror networks here, they could have prevented
the carnage of Sept. 11, the American source admitted.
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