REALPOLITIK: ‘Blowback’, Abu Sayyef and the CIA – By Edmundo Santuardio III
Source – constantinereport.com – “…Abu Sayyaf members, Pimentel said, were initially recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency as mujahideens to fight the U.S. proxy war in Afghanistan in the ‘80s. Before their deployment, they were trained by AFP officers in Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan and other remote areas in Mindanao. But the arms and funds came…
































