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| Southeast Asia |
| Terror suspects: Al Qaeda brainwashed us |
| 2007-02-19 |
| Basri sports a crude tattoo of Mickey Mouse on his wrist and spent his youth drinking alcohol and jamming to Nirvana songs in a rock band. He was never religious, and even now struggles to remember verses from the Quran, Islam's holy book. Yet until his arrest this month, the 30-year-old was one of Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militants. He was accused in the beheadings of three Christian girls and a string of other attacks on Sulawesi island, a key terror front in the world's most populous Muslim nation. In interviews with The Associated Press, Basri and four other militants detained with him said they were uneducated men, seeking to avenge relatives killed in a Muslim-Christian conflict six years ago. They said they were brainwashed by members of the al Qaeda linked Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 Islam , recruiting the weak and gullible ! *disclaimer Anyone with an IQ of more than 10 will be beheaded |
| Posted by: MacNails 2007-02-19 10:42 |
| #4 Farmer's apology to the pigs before sending them to the abbatoir. But I did find this bit interesting: al Qaeda's penetration of Sulawesi in 2001 helped create generations of Indonesian Islamic hardliners Generations? Since 2001? They've got a time-compression machine? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-19 07:14 |
| #3 I vote for this. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-02-19 03:49 |
| #2 But he nevertheless joked and laughed as he described how it took two swipes of his machete to lop the head off one of the girls. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-19 03:27 |
| #1 Terror suspects: Al Qaeda brainwashed us "And it didn't take much effort, too." |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-19 03:27 |