Koko Pimentel has information that CIA and AFP created Abu Sayaff

Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel said that “bits of information” have been reaching his office claiming that the Central Intelligence Agency and Armed Forces of the Philippines had a hand in the creation of Abu Sayaff the largest terrorist group in the country.

He said he had been cautious in discussing the possibility, not wanting to indiscriminately implicate the CIA in the country’s political upheavals.

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“Piecing bits of information together makes out a case, at least pro tanto, that the Abu Sayyaf might indeed be a creation of the CIA and had been covertly supported by select military officers during the administration of President (Fidel) Ramos,” Pimentel said.

In the early 1990s, the CIA recruited members for the Abu Sayyaf, Pimentel claimed, who were then trained in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi by an elite Philippine military unit.

For some unknown reason, CIA funding for the Abu Sayyaf was later cut off, prompting the rebels to resort to banditry, kidnapping and other crimes.

“Parenthetically, there is a new book, Browback by Chaimers Johnson, that may justify a deeper study into the affairs of the CIA in our country that have a direct relevance to the problems that the Abu Sayyaf is causing us today,” Pimentel said.

Pimentel is studying if the senate will have to conduct an investigation, if it does, they ask former President Ramos and top military officials to testify.

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