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JAKARTA, Indonesia – A suicide bomber blew himself up as police were praying Friday, wounding 28 people in the first attack on a mosque since extremists started targeting the predominantly Muslim country a decade ago. Though houses of worship are commonly targeted by militants in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, the attack in the West Java town of Cirebon was a first for Indonesia. Even former Jemaah Islamiyah members were outraged. "To attack Muslims as their performing Friday prayers?!" said Abu Ghifari, who quit the group because he disagreed with some of its doctrines. "It's a great sin!"

PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) - A suspected bomb blast rocked a crowded market selling pork in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing six people and wounding 45, local media reported. Police said they believed a bomb caused the explosion in the town of Palu, capital of volatile Central Sulawesi province. The blast comes amid a spate of warnings from authorities about militant violence during the Christmas and New Year season in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Pork is forbidden to Muslims, but eastern Indonesia has large pockets of Christians. El Shinta news radio station reported that unexploded bombs had also been...

(AP) Indonesian police are undertaking a massive security operation at churches, malls and hotels amid warnings that Islamic terrorists are planning Christmas attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Leaders of the country's Christian minority said they were determined to hold services as normal, but acknowledged that fears of bombings had dampened the festive spirit.

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Philippine security forces have uncovered a cell of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) regional terror group linked to Al Qaeda and have arrested a suspected member, Defence Secretary Eduardo Ermita says. With general elections set for Monday, the police and army have sent thousands of reinforcements to Manila. Security forces are on high alert across the country as officials cite concerns that militants may be planning attacks to disrupt the polls. In a statement, the Government says the anti-terror task force is "able to trace the trail of a $US25,000 remittance to JI operatives in the Philippines from the international terrorist...

4 February, 2004 INDONESIA New Muslim militant group born to fight Christians Jakarta (AsiaNews)- The latest analysis report prepared by the Jakarta-based International Crisis Group (ICG) released early this week, stated that a radical new Islamic militia had emerged in the country. The newly established group ?Mujahedden Kompak? was formed by hard-liners who split from ?Jemaah Islamiyah?, considered to be Al-Qaeda?s affiliate in Southeast Asia. The report-analysis, written by ICG?s Chapter Director Sidney Jones, an American expert in Southeast Asian issues, describes the faction. The Muslim militant group exists in the Central Sulawesi province, and is highly concentrated in the...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. JI bomb haul [Jemaah Islamiah in Malaysia] Herald Sun(Melbourne); WORLD; Pg. 37 AFP, REUTERS March 21, 2003 Friday KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian police say they have found a cache of four tonnes of a bomb-making ingredient after the arrest of a suspected member of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiah terror group. Jemaah Islamiah, which aims to create a regional Islamic state in South-East Asia, is blamed for the Bali bombing which killed 202 people last October The fertiliser, ammonium nitrate, was found buried in...