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2004-02-04 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-04 12:09:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hey Dan, you can find most of the answers in the ICC's report here, although I found it difficult to keep track of all the players and groups involved.
It essentially says that JI was leery about getting involved in the Christian/Muslim violence in Poso and Ambon, because they detected the hand of the Indonesian Army in the background. They were also slow to act because of the centralised structure that meant everything had to go through a lot of beurocracy before anything could be decided.
So a bunch of JI men joined up with Mujahedeen Kompak, which was an independent Jihadi outfit that would accept anyone who wanted to join.
They also had a falling out with Laskar Jihad, because the former are Indonesian ultra-nationalists with an Islamist outlook, while the latter are hardcore Jihadis who don't even believe in the concept of the nationstate.
Lashkar Khos is said to be JI's 'special forces', and is unrelated to Mujahedeen Kompak.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-2-4 12:30:46 AM|| 2004-2-4 12:30:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Much obliged, Paul, that does answer a lot of my questions, though it still looks as though the Mujahideen Kompak is still more or less an affiliate of JI and would probably side with Zulkarnaean or Dr. Azahari in carrying out further terrorist attacks inside Indonesia.

The only reason as to why I brought up the Lashkar Khos is because I thought there might be a similarity between that and the Kompak, but it looks like I was wrong.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-2-4 1:17:34 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-2-4 1:17:34 AM|| Front Page Top

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