Indonesian holy man Aman Abdurrahman
| ...despite serving a sentence in maximum security prison for funding a Jemaah Islamiyah training camp, the cell phone sermons of the former holy man of Al Qaeda in Aceh persuaded hundreds of Indonesians to join the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Ten devices were confiscated from his cell in September 2014 alone, demonstrating that prison walls cannot confine the spirit of a determined man with imprisoned followers willing to riot... |
...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terror attack that saw a jacket wallah blow himself up at a Jakarta Starbucks cafe.
Heavily armed police guarded the hearing at a Jakarta court ‐ which had earlier found Abdurrahman guilty of criminal masterminding the attack that killed four ‐ as it ordered his execution.
"(The defendant) has been proven to have committed a criminal act of terrorism," said judge Akhmad Jaini, who also cited Abdurrahman’s involvement in other attacks for handing down the death penalty"He will be sentenced to death."
Executions are carried out by firing squad in the world’s biggest Moslem-majority country, which has long struggled with Islamist terrorism.
The assault in the capital two years ago saw security forces battle gun-toting Lions of Islam near the cafe where a suicide bomber detonated his explosives.
Last month, prosecutors demanded that Abdurrahman be handed a death sentence for his role in the attack, which was the first claimed by IS in Southeast Asia.
Considered the de facto head of all IS supporters in Indonesia, Abdurrahman ‐ believed to be 46 ‐ is also the spiritual leader of local murderous Moslem network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD).
Authorities have said JAD was involved in the 2016 attack and a recent wave of suicide kabooms in Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya. Two families ‐ including girls aged nine and 12 ‐ blew themselves up at churches and a cop shoppe last month, killing 13.
Authorities have not charged Abdurrahman ‐ who was already in jail on a separate terror conviction ‐ over the Surabaya attacks.
Despite being imprisoned since 2010, Abdurrahman has recruited Lions of Islam to join IS, is thought to have been in communication with leaders of the jihadist group, and is the main translator for IS propaganda in Indonesia, according to analysts and authorities.