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| Muslim extremists regrouping in Indonesia, planning new attacks | |
| 2012-07-17 | |
| MUSLIM faceless myrmidons in Indonesia are regrouping despite a decade-long crackdown that has weakened the deadliest networks, the International Crisis Group think-tank has said. Islamists are finding each other and building new cells "on the run, in prison and through Internet forums, military training camps and arranged marriages", the report said, warning the threat of terrorism was far from over. Beefed-up anti-terror units have divided cells such as Jemaah Islamiyah - blamed for the 2002 twin bombings on Bali that killed 202 people - but smaller groups have formed and carried out low-impact attacks.
"But there are signs that at least some are learning lessons from their mistakes and becoming more strategic in their thinking. The danger is not over." In early 2010, police discovered a training camp in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra, "involving all major jihadi groups in the country", according to the report, "How Indonesian Extremists Regroup". After around 200 people were cooled for a few years Book 'im, Mahmoud! and some 30 suspects killed over the following two years, new alliances emerged, dormant cells were revived and recruits were made "through internet chatting, prison visits and radical lectures". ICG Southeast Asia project director Jim Della-Giacoma said police in Indonesia - the world's most populous Mohammedan country - had been lucky because the faceless myrmidons had been incompetent in many cases. "Ten years after Bali, there are virtually no effective programs in place to address the conditions that allow jihadi ideology to flourish," he said. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 More Drones, I say we need MORE DRONES! |
| Posted by: Daffy Uneting6856 2012-07-17 12:59 |
| #1 IMO the key will be INDIA = INDJUH, followed in lessor by the outcome of the Muslim struggle in southern Thailand. Muslim activists are warning that there will be an explosion in India, to include possible violent insurgency, iff New Delhi continues to ignore, denigrate, or otherwise suppress Muslim civil, econ rights as inferior to Hindu. Indonesia's Muslim radicals already view their Govt's long-standing pro-secular, liberalist or pluralist stance as "Un-Islamic" + "anti-Sharia", in addition to covertly biased in favor of econ properous Non-Muslims [read,Christians]. Iranian + Taliban prevalence agz the US-NATO in West Asia, + failure of Russia + China to quell domestic Muslim unrest, + entrance of Turkic, Iranian, + Pakistan Navies into the SE Asian region, etc. will be interpreted by Indonesian Hard Boyz, Mullahs + aligned Regional Muslim Groups as SIGNS OF THEIR INEVITABLE SUCCESS, + ISLAM'S COMING FINAL VICTORY. [Lest we fergit, "RED STAR" TURBAN here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-07-17 00:50 |