All of the Islamic terrorist organizations now have links to al-Qaeda and
each other.

Bruce


State witness bares MNLF, MILF links with Abu Sayyaf

The Manila Times

Monday, March 28, 2005


By Jomar Canlas, Reporter

The Abu Sayyaf connived with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
and the Moro National Liberation Front to plant bombs, kidnap people and
commit murder, The Manila Times learned from Roland Ullah, a witness to the
Sipadan hostage crisis, and former Abu Sayyaf member-turned state witness
Omar Pael.

Ullah told The Times in an exclusive interview that he discovered many
conspiracies between the three groups while he was a hostage of the Abu
Sayyaf for three years.

He said the three organizations tap their fighters as mercenaries and even
combine forces occasionally to attack government troops. They cooperate
getting their fighters trained under a suspected Jemaah Islamiyah militant,
Abu Saki, alias "Jackie."

Ullah saw and heard the Abu Sayyaf leader, Radulan Sahiron, talk with MILF
chair Al Haj Murad through a satellite phone provided by Murad.

Ullah, who is now under the Witness Protection Program of the Department of
Justice, said the Abu Sayyaf hires MILF and MNLF fighters for P50,000. He
believed that MILF and MNLF officers get paid higher when they act as
mercenaries for the Abu Sayyaf.

"Naghihiraman din ng mga tao ang mga Abu Sayyaf, MNLF at MILF. Minsan nga
ang MILF ang magtatanim ng bomba sa kalye laban sa mga sundalo at ang Abu
Sayyaf ang raratrat at papatay sa mga tinamaan ng bomba [The Abu Sayyaf,
MNLF and MILF share fighters. Sometimes the MILF would plant a roadside bomb
against soldiers and the Abu Sayyaf would shoot the soldiers wounded in the
blast]," Ullah told The Times.

Pael told The Times that he took part in the kidnapping on April 23, 2000,
on Sipadan Island in Semporna, Malaysia. Nineteen foreigners and two
Filipinos were abducted there, he said.

Pael was also involved in kidnapping several people at the Dos Palmas resort
in Palawan.

He was a soldier of Murad. But an MILF official, Pael said, asked him to go
to Basilan and serve Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani.

He said the Abu Sayyaf's ties with the MILF and the MNLF were so strong, the
Abu Sayyaf can ask either group for assistance when the Abu Sayyaf is being
pressed by the military.

The MILF and the MNLF, he added, also provide sanctuary for Abu Sayyaf
members when the need arises.

Pael said he became disgusted with the Abu Sayyaf after he was assigned to
serve under Abu Sabaya, whom he described as barat [a cheapskate] for
limiting his allowance to P1,000 a week and rations to mainly noodles. "I
surrendered because I cannot take the training anymore. The training was
very hard," he added.

The MNLF is based in Jolo, Sulu; the MILF is based in Cotabato and Basilan.
The Abu Sayyaf operates today in Jolo, Zamboanga and Tawi-Tawi.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/mar/28/yehey/metro/20050328met1.htm
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