Retired General Sahiron Dulah Salim, the first ever Muslim PNP official to head the Salaam police based in Camp Crame, further revealed that the executioner of the latest beheading of an American national could be a “Tausug.”
He said that based on his sources in Sulu, every Tausug native recruited are given R50,000 for the processing of their passports and visas prior to their departure for Iraq and Syria to join ISIS fighters in the troubled region.
Tausug warriors, he said, have the habit of beheading their enemies.
Reports said that Peter Kassig, an American aid worker, was shown in a video being beheaded by an Asian-looking fighter of ISIS.
“I think the suspect who carried out the beheading was a Tausug warrior because it is just normal for them to cut off the neck of their perceived enemies once they captured them,” said Salim.
Quoting his intelligence network in Sulu, the Tausug general who is a native of Parang town, Sulu, said that those recruited for local deployment were given P25,000 instant cash to be handed immediately to their families as “pabaon.”
Asked where the Abu Sayyafs are getting their money, Salim said that the recent P250-million ransom they got for the release of two German nationals was real, which the national government refuses to admit.
Salim also confirmed the statement of former President Fidel Ramos that the ISIS was able to recruit around 100 Tausugs, saying the military and PNP leaderships do not want to admit it since this will boomerang on them for their failure to monitor it despite their huge intelligence fund.
He said that the ISIS is getting their recruits from the towns of Jolo, Basilan and Tawi-tawi.
Salim is now living somewhere in Central Luzon since his retirement from service.
Mar T. Supnad
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