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Article: The Philippine branch of terror: Al Qaeda is believed to have given initial funding to the now-independent Abu Sayyaf militant group.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 26, 2001
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Byline: Dan Murphy Special to the Christian Science Monitor
MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES -- There are so many links between the Abu Sayyaf Group of the Philippines, which beheaded an American hostage a few months ago, and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network, that on paper they look like the route map for a Peshawar-based airline.
The links run from that high, bleak border city in Pakistan to terrorist dens in Afghanistan and Yemen; to murders and bombings in the Philippines; to the first attack on the World Trade Center; to a foiled attempt to assassinate the pope during a 1995 visit to Manila.
A captured Abu Sayyaf guerrilla, Edwin Angeles, ...