[Dhaka Tribune] Formed after the 2012 riot, Harakah al-Yaqin (Faith Movement, HaY) is led by a committee of Rohingyas living in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and is commanded on the ground by Rohingyas, according to Brussels-based group International Crisis Group (ICG).
HaY is represented by Ata Ullah, who was born in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... to a Rohingya father and grew up in Mecca. He is also identified as Hafiz Tohar by the Myanmar government, presumably an alias, according to ICG.
He is part of a group of 20 Rohingyas who have international experience in modern guerrilla warfare and are leading operations on the ground. After the military crackdown began, the Myanmar president’s office issued a statement claiming that some 400 members of Aqa Mul Mujahideen, a little-known Islamist krazed killer group linked to al-Qaeda and Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), had conducted the attack.
Aqa Mul Mujahideen or HuJI-Arakan Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. is another Rohingya-backed krazed killer group. It is not clear whether HaY and Aqa Mul Mujahideen are the same. Some of the HaY leaders have repeatedly claimed to the Dhaka Tribune that they have no connection with RSO or any other terrorist groups.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... al-Qaeda’s Bangladesh offshoot Ansar al-Islam as well as banned krazed killer outfit Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... have extended their support to HaY and urged Moslems around the world to fight the Myanmar government’s oppression in Rakhine.
International terrorist group 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... revealed its plan to attack Buddhist-majority Myanmar establishments through a statement published in Dabiq magazine in April 2016.
In late November last year, a pro-Islamic State Telegram channel suggested that Moslems in the UK who can not go to Myanmar can attack the country’s embassy and ambassador at home.
The Afghan Taliban on November 30 reiterated its call to Moslems as well as Islamic charitable organizations to take action in support of their brethren in Myanmar.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Harakah al-Yaqin (HaY) was formed to revolt against the Myanmar government and establish the rights of Rohingyas as citizens of the country, claimed a top leader of the holy warrior group.
And, according to his claim, they had full support of the locals of northern Rakhine, home to Rohingya Moslems.
HaY’s name popped up shortly after a series of attacks on several outposts of Myanmar Border Guard Police near Bangladesh border on October 9, 2016, in which nine coppers were killed.
The leader, who claims to be the second-in-command of self-proclaimed HaY chief Ata Ullah, claimed that this premeditated attack was aimed at acquiring arms and ammunition for the members who had been trained in guerrilla war tactics.
"The big shots, including Ata Ullah, started speaking with villagers [in Rohingya-dominated areas] in Rakhine four months before the attack and received astonishing response," he told the Dhaka Tribune.
"We had the support of all ‐ from school-going children to the elderly," he claimed.
A number of the members are the frustrated students of madrasas and employees of mosques which were shut down by the Myanmar government following the 2012 riot. They were never reopened.
The second-in-command said: "We attacked Dumci cop shoppe around midnight; it was the most successful attack of the night."
In their second attempt, they attacked Hawar Bill police outpost around 2am.
The third one was around 4am on Naffura police outpost. "That one was the least successful."
The second-in-command claimed that they had managed to rob more than 90 firearms that night.
With the newly "acquired" weapons, HaY found themselves on a stronger ground to face the Myanmar authorities.
But what they had not considered was the possibility of an aerial attack.
"They [Myanmar Army] brought helicopters to shoot at us," said the second-in-command. "They knew they would not be able to overcome us on the ground."
Unable to defend themselves, the forces of Evil retreated.
By then the army had also launched its raid in the Rohingya villages that led to mass murders and gang rapes of the Rohingyas, as told by those who fled to Bangladesh.
"People saw the army killing their family members right in front of them. They saw their loved ones being raped by the army. Their will to fight crumbled and they fled Arakan [Rakhine]."
The fighters witnessed as many as 250 Rohingya houses being burnt to the ground, he claimed.
The army attack turned local Rohingyas against HaY, whom they started to blame for the crackdown.
In the meantime, fighters of the group scattered around to hide, waiting for instructions from the high command.
But the instructions never came.
Many HaY members lost their faith in the group’s goal to establish their rights.
Rohingya community also started despising the holy warriors.
"The army attack cost us the support of Rohingyas," said the second-in-command.
Having lost followers, territory and ammunition, the HaY leaders have yet to decide on the next course of action.
"We do not have any plans yet to further our movement. The situation in Rakhine is too risky for us, and some of our fighters were maimed during the crackdown," said the second-in-command.
Their leader, Ata Ullah, is currently hiding to escape military prosecution. When this correspondent asked to meet him, the second-in-command rejected the request instantaneously.
"It is absolutely impossible. Three of our members were recently kidnapped. Since then, Ata Ullah has gone deep in hiding."
When asked where they were keeping their firearms, he said most of them were buried underground.
The leaders have no idea how to proceed with their movement, but they are still determined to finish what they started.
"We will fight until the end. This is a revolution against the oppression of Rohingyas by the Myanmar government," said the second-in-command.
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[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] An Army officer was killed while four other soldiers were maimed when government troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... bandidos in Sumisip, Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... , on Thursday.
Major Filemon Tan Jr., the spokesperson of the Western Mindanao Command, said the clash started past 7 a.m.
He said the military used its air assets against the bandidos.
Residents of Barangay Cabcaban, where the clash took place, have evacuated, a report stated.
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[IBTIMES] The Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... bully boy group released a video threatening to behead a German hostage if Germany does not pay a $10 million ransom, SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday. Jurgen Kantner was captured last November along with his lover companion, who was rubbed out after she tried to escape.
"We are giving you an ultimatum to fulfill our demands. Failure to pay the ransom will cause the beheading of this German citizen," one of the three masked kidnappers dressed in black reportedly said in the video, which was released late Wednesday night. "To the German government, it seems that you are not paying attention to our demands because of your arrogance. Have you not learnt anything?"
The bully boy group captured 70-year-old Kantner from Malaysian waters, near Sabah state close to southern Philippines. The two were taken at gunpoint from a yacht. Kantner’s deceased companion was identified as Sabine Merz.
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[CHANNELNEWSASIA] Eight Indonesians held at Singapore's Woodlands Checkpoint said they were preachers from the Tabligh Jamaat Islamic group, a senior Malaysian counter-terrorism official told Channel NewsAsia on Thursday (Jan 12).
One of the eight, identified as Ridce Elfi Hendra, was found with one image of a shoe bomb and two images of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), said Ayub Khan Mydin Pitchay, principal assistant director of Special Branch’s counter-terrorism division.
"They claimed to be preachers from the Tablighi Jamaat A group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms... movement, which is also sometimes known as Tabligh. They said they have been preaching in madrasahs (religious boarding schools) in Pattani, southern Thailand and then travelled down to Malaysia’s state of Perlis. They later came to Malacca to meet with a preacher there," said Ayub.
Tabligh Jamaat is a global Sunni Moslem missionary group.
"We will be investigating the madrasahs and the preacher whom they met with," Ayub added.
The men were in Malaysia from Jan 3 to 10 and claimed they were from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
A senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official told Channel NewsAsia that "initial interrogation showed they were not IS members".
"They are just preachers. This is the result of our initial investigation," said the Indonesian official.
Ayub said the men tried to enter Singapore at 1.30am on Jan 10 and were detained by Singapore’s immigration authorities and deported to Malaysia. They were held by Malaysia’s Special Branch counter-terrorism officers at 2am.
They were deported to Indonesia’s island of Batam at 9am that same day and handed over to Indonesian police counter-terrorism taskforce Densus 88.
DEPORTEE HAD IMAGES OF SHOE BOMB, IS FIGHTERS
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) confirmed on Thursday evening that the eight Indonesians - aged between 16 and 37 - were deported to Malaysia on Jan 10.
"One of them was found in possession of images of security concern, including that of a shoe-bomb as well as fighters from the terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria," MHA said.
"The Singapore authorities informed their Malaysian counterparts before the deportation," added a spokesperson for MHA.
According to Ayub, the Tabligh movement's teachings in Malaysia have been mostly peaceful and moderate.
"There have been only one or two cases at the most where its followers were found to be radical. They joined Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the Malaysian Mujahidin Movement (KMM)," said Ayub.
JI is the regional terror group behind the devastating 2002 Bali bombings. KMM, which is also known as the Malaysian Militant Movement, is a turban group with links to JI, which believes in overthrowing the secular Malaysian government and replacing it with an Islamic state.
Tabligh has been described by Moslem scholars as apolitical and somewhat secretive. It was founded in 1927.
Its biggest annual event is a three-day prayer and fast held in Bangladesh that attracts millions and is believed to be one of the largest gatherings of Moslems in the world after the Haj pilgrimage.
[TODAYONLINE] Women’s roles in terrorist networks in Indonesia have until now been dictated by their kinship ties through marriage, involving facilitating logistics and finance for terrorist acts. But there is a growing trend of women taking on combat roles.
Detachment 88, Indonesia’s police counter-terrorism unit, recently locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three women who were allegedly involved in plotting to bomb the Indonesian State Palace. The women -- Dian Yulia Novi, Arida Putri Maharani and Tutin Sugiarti -- were a part of a Solo-based terrorist network under the coordination of Bahrun Naim, the man allegedly behind the 2016 Jakarta attacks.
A few days after their arrest, Detachment 88 also arrested Ika Puspitasari in a mosque near her home in Purworejo, Central Java.
Novi and Maharani are the wives of Muhammad Nur Solihin, who is believed to be the leader of the terror cell. Novi was responsible for preparing the planned suicide kaboom at the Indonesian State Palace.
Maharani was aware of these preparations for the attack and had facilitated its funding. Sugiarti, interestingly, played a key role in radicalising Novi despite Novi being married to the group’s head. The last woman, Puspitasari, had prepared to conduct a suicide kaboom in Bali on New Year’s Eve.
Within Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Indonesia’s most infamous terrorist group, women previously played only intermediary and childbearing roles, with the purpose of boosting ties and nurturing future jihadists in a bid to expand the group’s numbers. JI also relied on women to raise funds for violent jihad.
For example, Noralwizah Lee Binti Abdullah, a Sabah-Chinese woman who was the wife of JI’s former operational commander Hambali ...real name Riduan Isamuddin, close personal friend of Osama bin Laden, one of the founders of Jemaah Islamiyah and the planner of the 2002 Bali bombings. He was captured with the help of a mid-Eastern intel service, shipped to Guantanamo to rot but he'll likely be released eventually because that was a long time ago and we were all so much younger then... , was believed to be JI’s chief accountant.
Classical Islam does not favour women taking on combative roles. But, with the rise of the so-called 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), the role of women in violent terrorist acts is evolving.
With the goal of establishing an Islamic state at all costs, IS has had to extend the kinds of roles available to women in their organization, involving them to a greater degree in armed combat and suicide missions. IS has established the al-Khansaa Brigade, a women-only unit that patrols around cities such as Raqqa and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to enforce IS’ fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic values. Women also fought on the frontlines for IS in Libya.
Increased combat and planning roles for women in Indonesian terror cells reflects the influence and growing network of IS allies in South-east Asia. The East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) terror group, which pledges allegiance to IS, has conducted weapons training for its women including the wife of MIT’s commander. We should expect more women to be direct participants in terrorism in the future.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Formed after the 2012 riot, Harakah al-Yaqin (Faith Movement, HaY) is led by a committee of Rohingyas living in 
