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Indonesian militant Islamists pledge allegiance to caliphate - Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT) |
2014-07-10 |
![]() ....the 'Holy Warriors of East Indonesia.' An umbrella group active in the Poso area of Sulawesi. They are headed by Shaykh Abu Wardah, aka Santoso who calls himself the Abu Mus'ab Al Zarqawi of Indonesia. Every once in awhile they chop somebody's head off or blow something up, but other than that they're not much of a threat to civilization as we know it.. (MIT) released a video statement through its media wing, MIT Press, by the group's leader, Santoso (alias Abu Wardah), containing a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and its emir Ibrahim ibn Awwad al-Badri (alias Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurashi). |
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