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| Southeast Asia |
| Islamic Terrorists In Desperate Situation |
| 2005-11-18 |
| November 18, 2005: The recent death of terrorist leader, Azahari bin Husin, in his home, left police in possession of 30 bombs and much other evidence of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) operations. There are apparently only three other leaders of JI on the loose, and one of those (Malaysian Noordin Mohammad Top) may be hiding out in Indonesia, or Malaysia, and the other two in the southern Philippines. The evidence collected from the Husin raid, and follow up raids made on the basis of leads found at the Husin house, indicate that JI is a rather small organization. In fact, JI may be down to a handful of active members. At the moment, JI is more the creature of media imagination than an active organization. Nearly all Islamic clergy have condemned JI, and few Indonesians openly support it. The Islamic terrorists have been the authors of their own destruction, mainly because of their terror attacks that kill more Moslems than non-Moslems. The remaining JI members are apparently aware of their desperate situation, but did not appear to be planning anything different, just more attacks. While JI talks about killing non-Moslems, counter-terror operations make this difficult, so they just go ahead and attack whatever they can, which usually means more dead Moslems, and more bad publicity of Islamic terrorism. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 mainly because of their terror attacks that kill more Moslems than non-Moslems That's not true of JI. It's victims have been overwhelmingly Westerners and Hindus. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-11-18 18:11 |
| #2 So what should this be taken as, the inevitable result of Zarqawi's group's modus operandi? (Read: At a more advanced state of PR degradation; anti-terror forces prevent them from being able to hit the politically best targets, so they have to make a PR-disaster attack just to stay viable as a group able to carry out attacks at all.) |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-11-18 12:28 |
| #1 Dumbasses, the lot of them. EP |
| Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-11-18 12:11 |