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Southeast Asia
Abu Dujana is the new JI supremo
2006-03-02
Abu Dujana is the successor of Abu Rusdan,' said Mr Petrus Reinhard Golose, the deputy chief of Indonesia's counter-terrorism task force, at a seminar in Jakarta yesterday.

Rusdan had replaced Abu Bakar Bashir as the leader of JI after Bashir's arrest in 2002. Rusdan himself has since been arrested and jailed, reported the New Straits Times.

Dujana was a teacher at the Lukmanul Hakiem Islamic school set up by the JI leadership in Johor Baru. The Indonesian police is now looking for him.

He graduated from the Afghanistan Mujahidin Military Academy in 1991 and is one of the most-wanted members of the regional terrorist network, which is linked to Al-Qaeda.

At the academy, Dujana was given military training, including the use of firearms.

The appointment of Dujana, a veteran of the Afghan war and a known bomb expert, only highlights the continued threat of JI despite the death of its chief bomb-maker Dr Azahari Husin in November.

'He was my student,' former JI member Nasir Abas told the New Straits Times.

When he was asked whether Dujana was capable of assembling bombs, Nasir said: 'As a student of the academy, he would have been taught the basics of how to assemble a bomb.

'That means he knows how to make a bomb, but he would not be as skilled or sophisticated as Azahari.'

Dujana, who is believed to be from West Java and Nasir had fought alongside during the Afghan war.

'He has leadership qualities. He can inspire loyalty in his men,' said Nasir who was once a military trainer at the Afghanistan military academy.

'When I knew him, he was a good person. He was not hard or radical. I don't know what he is like now.

'He could still be the same or he could have changed. Dr Azahari and Noordin were both good when I knew them. But they both changed in 1999,' said Nasir.

JI, which was set up in 1993, is suspected of carrying out all the major bombings in Indonesia.

Yesterday, Indonesian police disclosed for the first time that Al-Qaeda directly funded the bombings through a courier system.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#3  go out slowly. come back fast (and safe)
Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-03-02 21:15  

#2  Good hunting to your comrades in arms, 49 Pan. And to you and your people as well (I forgot to wish you that before), wherever it is that you are that I can't remember. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-02 20:36  

#1  And he was also promoted to the top of our list of most wanted. Hope he enjoys his freedom, it will be short lived.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-03-02 05:21  

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