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| Indonesia Arrests Six for Attempting to Join IS Militants |
| 2014-12-29 |
[AnNahar] Indonesian police Saturday tossed in the clinkDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! six people just before they were about to fly to Syria to join 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, the latest in a growing wave of sympathizers emerging from the world's most populous Moslem nation. Those arrested at Jakarta's Soekarno Hatta airport at dawn included a couple and their 10-year-old child, with police saying they were attempting to travel on fake passports. The alleged organizer of the trip was also captured after the arrests. "They admitted during an investigation that they want to carry out jihad and to be deaders in defending (IS)," said Jakarta police front man Rikwanto. "We hope to find out more details from the organizer, including the one who funded the trip," he added. The number of IS supporters embarking from Indonesia soared to 264 in October from 86 in June, the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) chief Saud Usman Nasution was quoted as saying in the Jakarta Post. In total, an estimated 514 Indonesians have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside IS -- around half of them students or migrant workers based in nearby countries, according to Nasution. Indonesia has waged a crackdown on terror groups over the past decade following attacks against Western targets, including the 2002 Bali bombings -- a campaign that has been credited with weakening key networks. |
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