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Indonesia implicates terror gang in police deaths
[Asia One] Indonesian police said on Sunday the gunnies who rubbed out two coppers in Central Sulawesi were from an beturbanned goon group founded by radical holy man  Abu Bakar Bashir... Leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council and proprietor of the al-Mukmin madrassah in Ngruki. The spriritual head of Jemaah Islamiya, which he denies exists. Bashir was jugged and then released in the wake of the 2002 Bali bombings, which he blamed on a conspiracy among the U.S., Israel, and Australia ... (pictured above). "All of them were indicated to be Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT) members who had been training or preparing themselves to commit terror acts planned in that region," national police front man Anton Bachrul Alam told news hounds. "Their future plans include stealing firearms from Brimob special police force in Central Sulawesi, robbing a bank and carrying out robberies in the villages," he added. Two men have been tossed in the slammer over the attack, in which four gunnies on cycle of violences opened fire on police guarding a bank in Palu district last month and two other gang members were killed in a raid in Poso district on Saturday, Alam said. Three others are still on the lam, he added. The shooting is the latest in a series of recent terror-related incidents including a Good Friday plot to blow up a Jakarta church and a book bomb campaign targeting Mohammedan moderates and counter-terrorism officials. Bashir, 72, has been accused of providing funding of more than $62,000 to a terrorist group dubbed Al-Qaeda in Aceh that was plotting attacks in Indonesia, and prosecutors have sought a maximum life sentence. Police say the JAT he founded in 2008 was a front for a new campaign of terrorism in the world's most populous Mohammedan-majority state. Indonesia is struggling to deal with the threat of homegrown Islamist Islamic fascisti who oppose the country's secular, democratic system and want to create a caliphate across much of Southeast Asia. Vicious communal festivities between Mohammedans and Christians in 2000 and 2001 claimed around 1,000 lives in Poso, and sporadic unrest continued for several years. Posted by: Fred 2011-06-06 |
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