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| Indonesian Women, Children Held in Turkey 'Heading to Join IS' |
| 2015-03-14 |
[AnNahar] Sixteen Indonesians, mostly women and kiddies, have been tossed in the clinkDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... attempting to cross into 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.... (IS) group, a minister said, the latest case of Indonesians heading to battlegrounds in the Middle East. The 11 children, four women and one man from the world's most populous Moslem-majority country were detained in the Turkish border town of Gaziantep. Officials did not say when they were arrested. "We are still investigating... but it is clear that they wanted to join (IS) to have a better life in accordance with Islamic sharia laws," Security Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno told news hounds late Thursday. Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that a team was being dispatched to Turkey to work with authorities after the arrests. Officials had previously revealed that a different group of 16 Indonesians went missing last month after joining a tour group to Turkey, and were also believed to be attempting to reach Syria. Fears are also growing in Indonesia, which has long struggled with Islamic militancy -- the country's counter-terror chief saying that more than 500 Indonesians are believed to have gone to fight with IS. Jakarta has already banned support for IS jihadists, although experts have called on authorities to take further steps to stop the flow of fighters. Indonesia has waged a crackdown on terror groups over the past decade following attacks on Western targets, including the 2002 Bali bombings, that killed 202 people -- a campaign that has been credited with weakening key networks. |
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