Basilan, Philippines
(March 10, 2002)
"...Unknown to most, the U.S. troops-- especially the Special Forces now in this Abu Sayyaf lair--are facing not merely a rag-tag band of bandits but hard core Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-trained fighters. Most of the Abu Sayyaf leaders have fought Rambo-like in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980s after receiving training from the CIA, battling some of Russia1s best fighting paratroopers, a reality the Philippine military seemed to have forgotten. And they are now better and well armed, thanks to the millions of dollars of ransom collected from the so many hostages they have taken, some of which they brutally tortured, beheaded and killed.... .According to former Philippine Senate Minority Leader Nene Pimentel, the Abu Sayyaf are remnants of about 800 Filipino Muslim Moujahideens who, together with thousands of other Muslim jihad warriors from several countries, were recruited, trained and financed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fight the CIA-sponsored proxy war in Afghanistan against the Russians in 1980....."
Their lives. Their choices. Their fault. Grow up.
Now that we created this monster, it is coming back to bite us in the butt! The sad thing about this whole thing is, the idiot that conceived this devilish idea, from which the whole world will suffer for decades, is still alive, and roaming the TV talking head with impunity. If there was justice in this world, this idiot would have become persona nongratta? This idiot is Zeb Brejinsky, the Carter Administration’s National security advisor. I would treat this devil of a man as I would treat the terrorists. He invented them, and collected them from their caves, where they were living in seventh century ideology, and handed them the twenty first century knowledge to torment us.