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| 3 Uzbek turbans blamed for fatal stabbing during escape from Indonesian jail; within hours 2 recaptured, 1 drowned |
| 2023-04-12 |
I think this is the last time we heard about this bunch of palookas. [BenarNews] Three suspected Uzbek Death Eaters allegedly fatally stabbed an officer and injured four others when they escaped an immigration detention center in Jakarta before being hunted down, police said on Tuesday.The trio, allegedly affiliated with al-Qaeda, escaped Monday, with two of them captured later in the day. The third suspect drowned in a Jakarta canal, also on Monday, while being pursued by police, according to Aswin Siregar, a front man for the police counterterrorism unit Densus 88. "They incapacitated and attacked the officers using a kitchen knife or whatever they could get from the pantry," Aswin said at a news conference. Officers found the two surviving suspects hiding in a vacant lot near the immigration office, Aswin said. Police are investigating the case as a murder and a terrorist act, Aswin said, adding that officers seized a knife used in the attack and an autopsy was conducted on the victim. The trio was among four Uzbek nationals detained by counterterrorism officers on March 24, Aswin said. Police said they had tracked down the suspects after receiving information from Uzbek authorities that they were spreading propaganda and recruiting followers on social media. The fourth suspect, who did not join the escape attempt, remained in jug. Aswin said the suspects had tried to flee because they did not want to be sent back to Uzbekistan. "They did not want to be deported to their home country because they would face heavier punishments there," he said. The police said the Uzbek suspects — whom they identified only by their initials - had entered Indonesia through Malaysia in February. Aswin said the suspects were part of Khatiba Tawhid Wal Jihad, a bad boy group added in 2022 to the sanction list of the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council for its links to al-Qaeda. The group is a splinter faction of the Uzbek-led bad boy organization Jannat Oshiklari, which operates under the umbrella of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... h Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, the U.N. said. The group has about 500 fighters and operates in the Syrian provinces of Hama, Idlib and Ladhiqiyah, where it cooperates with other terrorist groups such as Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari and the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Group, according to the U.N. The sanctions imposed by the Security Council include a travel ban, an assets freeze and an arms embargo. Police said two of the suspects previously traveled to Syria and joined a bad boy training camp there. When they were arrested in March, police seized several items including passports, money receipts, iPads, cellphones and screenshots of their online posts. Indonesia, the world’s largest Moslem-majority nation, has been grappling with religious extremism for decades and has suffered several deadly attacks by Death Eaters affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems... These include the October 2002 Bali bombings, in which 202 people were killed. Related: Densus 88: 2022-12-08 Bali bombmaker paroled; suicide bomber kills 1 in attack on police station Densus 88: 2022-10-05 Task force commander urges gradual end to counter-militancy operations in Poso Densus 88: 2022-03-12 Indonesian Police Say Use of Force Justified in Doctor’s Death Related: Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari: 2021-10-09 Suicide bomber kills at least 100 at Shi'ite mosque in northern Afghanistan after string of ISIS-K attacks as country descends further into chaos in wake of US withdrawal Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari: 2020-11-13 IMU Leader Killed in Afghan Forces Operation in Faryab: MoD Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari: 2020-07-10 Taliban react to photos of Afghan forces published by KIB’s Syrian wing |
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