The Philippines Agent Who Became An Abu Sayyaf Terrorist (Edwin Angeles)

However, Philippines National Intelligence Coordinating Agency & National Bureau of Investigation (NICA), were already mired in a conflict with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a left wing political organization that were considered a terrorist group in its own right. The Abu Sayyaf were entirely led by its violent principals since it wasn't organized. From the onset, the Philippines NICA instituted an informant into the group, the name that he used, Ibrahim Yacoub. But his actual name was Edwin Angeles. Thru ought the early and mid 1990's, the Abu Sayyaf were being funded by Al Qaeda, in which the group swore loyalty to, as its founder, Janjalani is supposed to have met with Bin Laden in Afghanistan during the Soviet war. The group involved in kidnappings for ransom, and grew to bombings of Christian churches and later beheadings. All of these atrocities however, were under the operational lead of Angeles, who at times even helped in the kidnappings. Leading many to wonder, was Angeles a mole or a terrorist?