|
Bus driver linked to terror groups
A former shuttle bus driver at Sydney Airport was a member of a violent Indonesian group with suspected links to banned terrorist groups Jemaah Islamiah and al-Qaeda, The Australian newspaper said. The paper said Dance Darmince, who uses the alias Mohammad Darimi, headed a small group of Laskar Jihad members in Sydney and had been coordinating fundraising efforts. From about 1999, he had driven airport shuttle buses transporting passengers around Sydney Airport for private bus company Kingsford Smith Transport. But the company said he quit last November, after on-and-off employment over the past five years. The story follows revelations that Bilal Khazal - a man affiliated with Osama bin Laden, according to the CIA - worked as a Qantas baggage handler at Sydney's international terminal during the lead-up to the Olympics. The Australian quoted a source from within Sydney's Indonesian community who claimed Mr Darmince and other men visited expat Indonesians and asked them for money to help fight "their jihad and the fighting in the Malukus".Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-06-11 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=15321 |