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Indonesian Police Shoot Dead Two Terror Suspects
[AnNahar] Indonesian police have rubbed out two suspected Islamic Lions of Islam and tossed in the calabooseDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! seven others in raids in an area known as a terror hotbed, an official said Monday. The force's elite anti-terror unit killed the two men during a firefight on Sunday in a village in Poso district on Sulawesi island, said national police front man Agus Rianto. "When we tried to arrest them, they resisted. There was a firefight and two from the group were killed," he said, adding that two coppers were maimed. Seven suspected Lions of Islam have been arrested over several days, including five in the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar, Rianto said. The front man said they were linked to the country's most-wanted Islamic Lion of Islam named Santoso. He leads the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen holy warrior group, which hides out in the jungles on central Sulawesi. The world's most populous Moslem-majority nation has struggled with Islamic extremism for more than a decade, facing a series of attacks on Western targets, although a crackdown has weakened the most dangerous networks. The Lions of Islam on Sulawesi are thought to be among the few that remain a real threat in Indonesia. They regularly launch attacks but these tend to target Indonesian security forces and be low-impact. But fears are growing about the influence of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, with some worried that Indonesians returning from fighting in Iraq or Syria could revive sophisticated holy warrior networks. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-30 |
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