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CANBERRA: The first arrest made under Australia's new anti-terrorism laws, in fact the first Australian since 1978 to be charged with terrorism is a Pakistan-born medical student who allegedly attended a three-week training camp organised by the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan in January last year. Sydney resident Izhar Ul-Haque was arrested by the Australian Federal Police on April 15 and although he was released on bail on May 27, he is said to be under close observation. His lawyer has denied he was a terrorist but admitted that Ul-Haque was sympathetic to the “Kashmir cause''. Ul-Haque is said to have claimed...

Target any white person: the chilling guidelines for Bali suicide bombers By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 04/07/2006) Any white person is a target. Avoid hotels because they are too well protected. Carry the bombs in small knapsacks to avoid suspicion. And don't worry about your escape route because you will become a "martyr". These guidelines for suicide bombers were found on a computer captured by Indonesian police during a raid in November, and are believed to have been written by the British-educated bomb-maker Azahari Husin, who died during the attack. Azahari, in his mid-40s when he died, studied...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, July 2 — The bombs should be small and placed in day packs, making them harder to detect. The bombers should dress like tourists. They should not bother targeting hotels because security is too tight. Instead they should consider restaurants, discos and theaters. A police officer searched the site of one of the bombings in Bali on Oct. 2, 2005. The blasts killed 20 people. A thorough survey should be done in advance by the bombers themselves. That way, they are more familiar with the sites, and no one is left behind to be hunted later by the...

How [radical] Islam makes one into a fascist, whether you are Arab, black, etc. The broader view of the deep & wide reality of Islamofascism What do the Arab Muslim massacre in NYC WTC, The Pakistani Muslim bombing in London, the Arab Muslim bombing in Madrid, an Indonesian attack on Australians in Bali, an Arab Muslim racist attack on an ordinary Jew in Paris, Arabs' onslaught in the genocide campaign in Sudan, WW2's Bosnian Muslims attacking Christian Serbs, Jordanian Arab murderer: Zarqawi that seperated (Nazi style) between Shiite & Sunni kids on a bus, Arab slave masters in Mauritania, a...

The Malaysian government recently announced that between March 16 and April 3 they had arrested 12 individuals who were part of the Darul Islam (DI) organization; authorities allege that they were planning a string of bombings (The Star, May 31). The Malaysian authorities went to great lengths to insist that the 12 individuals—three or four Indonesians, two Filipinos and six Malaysians—were neither members of Jemaah Islamiya (JI) nor the Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM) [1]. DI was founded in 1947 by Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwiryo and its espoused goal was to establish an Islamic state in Indonesia (Negara Islam Indonesia). To that...

Jemaah Islamiah, captured in Thailand; and Hamzah al-Rabbiyah al-Masri, a key operational leader killed in Pakistan. More than 4,000 suspected al-Qaeda members have been arrested worldwide since September 11, 2001. Al-Qaeda cells have been uncovered, dismantled, and disrupted in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. More than $140 million of its assets have been blocked in over 1,400 bank accounts worldwide.

A FORMER Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader used by Indonesia to "deprogram" terrorists in custody says he would be happy to come to Australia to help re-educate extremists. The Federal Government is examining the use of deprogramming after a suggestion from Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty. Mr Keelty studied anti-terrorism strategies in Indonesia, where Malaysian-born Nasir bin Abbas, a former JI operative, is used to help deprogram terrorists. In his new role, Mr Abbas talks to arrested terror group members to open their minds to more moderate Islam, as well as extract information on terrorist operations. Mr Abbas, the brother-in-law...

TERROR plotter Zacarias Moussaoui told a Muslim militant he dreamed of crashing a plane into the White House, according to testimony at the al-Qaeda conspirator's death penalty trial today. Singapore-born Faiz Abu Bakar Bafana, a member of the radical Indonesia-based group Jemaah Islamiah, said in testimony recorded in 2002 that he hosted a man he knew only as "John" in Kuala Lumpur in mid-2000, who told him of the dream. Jurors later saw Bafana assert during cross-examination that "John" was Moussaoui. Moussaoui is the first person tried in the US in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed...

How US stopped Hambali Natalie O'Brien and Patrick Walters February 11, 2006 IT should have been no surprise that the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiah and its operations chief Hambali were named by US President George W. Bush as the figures behind a 2002 plot to fly a plane into California's tallest building. JI and Hambali, mastermind of the Bali bombing, were not only intimately connected with al-Qa'ida's chief strategist Khalid Sheik Mohammed in the plan to destroy the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, they had been in cahoots for years, planning to blow up US airliners and...

JAKARTA: Indonesian police are investigating possible links between a purported new militant network and al Qaeda, with initial indications showing it was set up by two key Malaysian radicals, police said today. Indonesia's police chief told parliamentarians yesterday that documents seized in November showed Noordin M Top had proclaimed himself leader of a group called Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad network, or Organisation for the Basis of Jihad. Top has been Southeast Asia's most wanted Islamic militant since Indonesian anti-terrorism police killed his associate, Malaysian Azahari bin Husin, in November in a shootout in East Java that coincided with raids in which...

JAKARTA (AP): Southeast Asian terrorists are "regrouping, adapting and recruiting," and more regional cooperation is required to defeat them, Indonesia's president said Monday. In a speech to lawmakers from the Asia-Pacific region, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned that the campaign against militants would be a long one, and said it would need to be fought on "political, economical, legal, social and spiritual" fronts. "We know that the terrorists are regrouping, adapting and recruiting," he said. "We all need to intensify our cooperation to fight terrorism." Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is a key front in the war against terrorism...

JEMAAH Islamiah-linked terrorists in southern Thailand are believed to be planning to transform their insurgency from attacks against the Thai state to bombings of Western tourists. US terrorism expert Zachary Abuza has told The Australian that the Muslim insurgency could spread from the hinterland to beach resorts, such as Phuket, frequented by Western tourists. Dr Abuza will tell the Foreign Correspondents Club in Bangkok tonight there are also reasons to believe that JI may become involved in such a plan being hatched by Thai insurgents. The two-year insurgency, which has killed more than a thousand people, has until this point...

A SYDNEY man allegedly telephoned the suspected leader of al-Qa'ida in Spain – Abu Dahdah – seeking help to move a "brother" and his family throughout Europe. The allegation about former Qantas baggage handler Bilal Khazal – made in documents tendered in Mr Dahdah's terrorism trial – contradicts claims by him that he had never spoken to the alleged terror chief, or even knew who he was. As more details of a network of alleged terror supporters in Australia emerged yesterday, it has been claimed a second Australian named in the Spanish court documents, Melbourne cleric Sheikh Mohammed Omran, was...

Indonesia deployed thousands of troops to guard churches and places where foreigners gather Friday amid warnings that al-Qaida-linked militants were planning Christmas terror attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation.Maj. Gen. Firman Gani, the Jakarta police chief, said Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists might use the holidays to retaliate for the death last month of bomb-making expert Azahari bin Husin, who was gunned down in a police raid.Azahari's shadowy network is blamed for at least five suicide bombings targeting Western interests since 2002 — including Oct. 1 restaurant attacks on Bali island — that together killed more than 240 people.It also...

A FORMER Australian-based leader of Jemaah Islamiah has been discovered on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, where the feared terrorist group runs military training camps for terror recruits. Abdul Rahman Ayub - named as one of the JI chiefs who set up a chapter known as Mantiqi4 in Sydney before moving to Perth - is believed to have been training JI operatives on the island for at least the past year. Terror expert Zachary Abuza said Ayub was one of 20 suspected JI members - including infamous bomb-maker Dulmatin, who has a $US10 million ($13.5 million) bounty on his...

A FORMER Australian-based leader of Jemaah Islamiah has been discovered on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, where the feared terrorist group runs military training camps for terror recruits. Abdul Rahman Ayub - named as one of the JI chiefs who set up a chapter known as Mantiqi4 in Sydney before moving to Perth - is believed to have been training JI operatives on the island for at least the past year. Terror expert Zachary Abuza said Ayub was one of 20 suspected JI members - included infamous bombmaker Dulmatin, who has a $US10 million ($13.5 million) bounty on his...

MUSLIM extremists want to create an Islamic state stretching from Thailand to Indonesia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer warned yesterday. Mr Downer said their goal was to drive out all Western interests and create a fundamentalist state that encompassed Malaysia, The Philippines, Indonesia and southern Thailand. "They want to get rid of democracy in these countries and replace it with a puritanical regime that denies individual freedoms," he said. Mr Downer's comments at an interfaith lunch in Perth came as international counter-terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna warned there were at least 20 supporters of Jemaah Islamiah living in Australia. Speaking at a...

The recorder of the perpetrators's Video of the Bali Bombing began to be presented The recorder of the video that contained the statement of three perpetrators of the bali bombing on October 1 began to be shown. Vice President Jusuf Kalla together with 12 Muslim scholars from East Java witnessed this video, on Wednesday night (16/11), in Vice President's service residence. In this video of the perpetrators was that made use of Arabic, the Javanese language and Indonesian. Basically they gave the reason why did the suicide bomb, the centipede to the family but also said that they will...

THAILAND & INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT by B.Raman Indicators available since March, 2002, that the International Islamic Front (IIF) formed by Osama bin Laden in 1998 has been trying to extend its activities to southern Thailand have now been strengthened by the recent recrudescence of acts of violence in southern Thailand. 2. These indicators spoke of a surprisingly large number of Muslims from Thailand studying in the madrasas of Pakistan, some of them run by the five Pakistani components of the IIF. These components are the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), which has now been co-ordinating the activities of the IIF due to the...

Jakarta (dpa) - Indonesia ordered users of pre-paid cellular phone to be registered, a move aimed at aiding its efforts to combat terrorism, local media reports said Saturday. Minister of Communications and Information Sofyan Djalil said a decision to register the prepaid cellular phone users was in anticipation of electronic crimes ranging from scams to terrorism. He said the registration process would start on Saturday and be completed by early April next year. "There have been many complaints by people from housewives to state officials on electronic crimes. Therefore, the government decided to identify prepaid (phone) card users," the state-run...

Asaha Dajing, 19, appeared to be thriving at an Islamic college in Yala, 20 miles north of this remote village. He had just won a $125 creative writing scholarship, big money in these parts. His family was proud. But Asaha had friends his parents didn't know about: Islamic radicals who were recruiting impressionable young men for a mysterious holy war here in the jungles of southern Thailand. Asaha's secret life was exposed only by his death. He was killed by police along with 13 other militants April 28 when they staged a suicidal assault on a government office near this...

THE death of Malaysian bomb mastermind Azahari Husin will remove one of the brains behind terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah, the Australian government has said. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney General Philip Ruddock have welcomed reports the so-called "Demolition Man" who was behind both Bali attacks and the Jakarta Australian Embassy bombing has blown himself up after a shootout in Indonesia. "Noordin Top and Azahari have been the two keys to these bombings by what we broadly define as Jemaah Islamiah in Indonesia, so to take either or both of them out is a very important step forward," Mr Downer...

Australia to tackle JI on Mindanao From correspondents in Zamboanga 17oct05 AUSTRALIA and the Philippines are to expand security cooperation amid concern over Islamic militants on the island of Mindanao, Australian Defence Minister Robert Hill said today. Both countries will boost intelligence exchanges and maritime surveillance, focusing on the infiltration of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militants into Mindanao, Mr Hill said during a visit to this southern port. Hill met with Lieutenant General Edilberto Adan, chief of the Philippine military's southern command, and said there could also be "further training and support for special forces, particularly in long-range reconnaissance work". He...

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP): Indonesian Islamic militant Dulmatin, who has a US$10 million bounty on his head, is hiding out in the Philippines, a spokesman of the main Muslim separatist group here said Friday. Dulmatin, an al-Qaeda trained electronics expert thought to be one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, is in Mindanao, said Eid Kabalu from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). He said Dulmatin was with the senior leader of militant group Abu Sayyaf, Khadaffy Janjalani, as well as another alleged member of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), Umar Patek. The U.S. reward announced Thursday for information that...

BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Terrorists targeted the Indonesian tropical resort of Bali for the second time in three years Saturday with coordinated bombings that devastated seafood and noodle restaurants packed with foreigners, killing at least 25 people and wounding at least 100. The blasts came a month after Indonesia's president warned of possible terrorist attacks. Two Americans were among the wounded. Saturday's near-simultaneous blasts at two seafood cafes on Jimbaran beach and a three-story noodle and steakhouse in downtown Kuta occurred almost three years to the day that bombings blamed on Islamic militants killed 202 people, mostly foreigners in Bali....

Bali, Indonesia (AHN) - Reports surface that a series of terror related explosions have struck the resort area of Bali late Saturday night. Reports indicate multiple injuries have occurred but no reports of fatalities. Local television and radio stations reports there were as many as four near-simultaneous explosions near tourist areas on Bali. El Shinta radio reports that at least three blasts rocked Jimbaran beach, which is lined with seafood restaurants commonly frequented by tourists. Another explosion struck downtown Kuta, about 28 km away, the station says. In 2003, terrorists from the Jemaah Islamiyah militant group attacked the J.W. Marriott...

Saturday, September 11, 2004 9/11 and the Lies Terrorists Tell Three years ago today Islamist al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four airliners bound for New York and Washington, crashing them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A second target in Washington was spared when heroic passengers on a doomed flight attacked the terrorists and crashed the plane rather than allowing the attack to proceed. The 9/11 attacks awakened a sleeping giant. The United States mobilized for a new war. The truth is that the war had been going on for many years but few Americans had paid it much notice....

An Indonesian court has sentenced to death the main defendant on trial over last year's suicide car bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta that killed 10 people. Iwan Dharmawan, alias Rois, stood up waving his fist in the air and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) after the verdict was read out. Prosecutors had accused Rois of buying the vehicle and other materials used in the bombing, and of recruiting the driver who drove the vehicle. They had also said Rois, 30, worked closely with the accused masterminds of the strike, Malaysians Azahari bin Husin and Noordin M...

Jakarta, 16 August (AKI/Jakarta Post) -Indonesian police are working together with their Philippine counterparts to hunt down two Indonesian members of the al-Qaeda linked Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) militant group who are believed to be undergoing military training at Camp Hubaidiyah in the autonomous Muslim region of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines. The two alleged Indonesian members of JI - blamed for the notorious 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali which killed 202 people, as well as other attacks - were identified as Ahmad and Abu Nida. The two had escaped from Indonesia to the Philippines, an Indonesian police spokesman said. The...

ONE of the two terrorists who made the Bali bombs has been shot dead during a gun battle with soldiers near a militant stronghold in the southern Philippines. The remains of Umar Patek, a member of Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiah, and those of an al-Qa'ida-linked Abu Sayyaf commander were recovered from a creek bed on August 5, three weeks after they were ambushed by special forces. Special forces soldiers launched an intensive operation in early July to find the pair thought at the time to be protected by Khadaffy Janajalani, the Abu Sayyaf leader responsible for dozens of...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A former Iraqi general believed to be Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's "military adviser" was arrested west of Baghdad. Abed Dawood Suleiman and his son, former army captain Raed Abed Dawood, were picked up in a morning raid on their house in Khalidiya, west of Baghdad, a defense ministry source said Wednesday. Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq, is believed to have masterminded much of the country's violence, including car and suicide bombings that killed almost 700 people in May alone. He has a 25-million-dollar price on his head. "Abed Dawood Suleiman is considered to be Abu...

n recent days the media in the United States and throughout the Western world has been abuzz with new emerging details regarding the capture of Abu Faraj al-Libbi who is believed to be Al Qaeda's third in command after Osama Bin Laden. Little attention and focus however is being given to the fact that many Al Qaeda members and their supporters together with the growing ranks of Jemaah Islamiyah are now finding renewed sanctuary in Indonesia and an unlikely financial supporter. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir the head of Jemaah Islamiyah a close ally of Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and...

MANILA (AFP) - The United States has expressed concern about militant training activity on Mindanao in the southern Philippines, warning the rebellion-torn southern region could become the "next Afghanistan." Joseph Mussomeli, the number-two official of the US embassy in Manila, urged its Southeast Asian ally to do more to stem the flow of Islamic militant recruits into Mindanao, which he alleged was becoming "the new 'Mecca' for terrorism." These groups train in bomb-making in Mindanao and have actually conducted bombing campaigns in the country, he added. "Personally, I'm worried that we're not worried enough. I think the real danger here,...

<p>An Indianapolis family kept vigil Tuesday awaiting news of two brothers they say are wrongly being held in the Philippines for suspected ties to terrorists.</p> <p>"This is like a (bad) dream," said Pamela Stubbs Thornton, a sister of the detained men, Michael Ray Stubbs and Jamil Daud Mujahid.</p>

<p>A former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee and his brother face deportation from the Philippines after their arrest in that country for suspected links to Muslim rebels and charities tied to al Qaeda, authorities said Tuesday.</p> <p>Michael Ray Stubbs, 55, of Antioch, who worked at the nuclear-weapons laboratory for 10 years ending in 2000, and his brother, James Stubbs, 56, a convert to Islam, were taken into custody on immigration violation charges Dec. 13 in the town of Tanza in Cavite province.</p>

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A terror suspect on Wednesday said the southern Philippines has become a major training ground for regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah - graduating 23 bomb experts just days ago - and a refuge for Indonesians involved in major attacks, including the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. Rohmat, arrested last week as an alleged Jemaah Islamiyah operative in the Philippines, told The Associated Press that he had trained new recruits of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group and said its leaders were plotting more bombings and kidnappings. Details provided by the 26-year-old Indonesian martial arts expert showed a close...

HE LOOKED young enough to pass for a teenager. And nothing in his lean frame suggested he was what the military portrayed him to be: a man who trained terror bombers. A faint hint of a smile even crossed Rohmat's face when the Armed Forces yesterday presented the Indonesian -- hands bound in cuffs -- to the media, saying he helped plan with the Abu Sayyaf Group leaders the Valentine's Day bombings in Makati City. Intelligence officials said Rohmat trained the Abu Sayyaf in bomb making, particularly the use of mobile phones to trigger explosions. Like many Indonesians, Rohmat goes...

Abu Sayyaf bomb threat unsettles Filipino churches AFP , MANILA Sunday, Mar 20, 2005 Churches in the Philippines tightened security yesterday after a warning was received that al-Qaeda-aligned extremists were planning bomb attacks in revenge for the killing of their leaders in a prison uprising, officials said. Additional staff, including security guards, had been posted at major churches to check on suspicious people, said Monsignor Hernando Coronel, secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. Coronel said churches would have only one exit and entry point so that people could be checked, in response to the warning issued by...

THE three main Southeast Asian Islamic terrorist groups have had a strong, secret alliance for almost 20 years, which continues to train Jemaah Islamiah's bomb-makers, intelligence documents reveal. The documents, compiled from interviews with a senior JI defector and other sources, confirm long-held suspicions that two training camps of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the southern Philippines are the nerve centre of regional terrorism. The former JI leader's admissions defy claims by the Philippines Government and the MILF that militant training in the camps ceased four years ago, at the start of delicate negotiations about autonomy for the Muslim...

    MANILA, March 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Despite a downplaying by the Philippine government that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is linked with Jemaah Islayiah (JI), a US expert on terrorism warned here on Friday that MILF is likely to be tagged by the United States government as a terrorist group.     American terrorism expert Zachary Abuza told foreign journalists based in Manila that continued terror activities by the MILF may push the US and the United Nations to list it as a terrorist group.     "At some point, the (US) government will lose patience and the (MILF) could potentially be put on...

TERROR WARNING: Govt ‘blind to JI link’ Published on March 07, 2005 Militant group helping unit formed by Afghanistan war vets in South; Bangkok attacks planned, says US expert A world expert on terrorism in Southeast Asia has warned that the government’s poor understanding of terrorists could help spur violence in the country’s deep South. He also warned of moves among the terrorists to bring their bombing campaign directly to Bangkok. Dr Zachary Abuza, associate professor of political science and international relations at Simmons College in Boston, said international terrorist groups, notably Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), based in Indonesia, had...

The leniency of Bali bombing mastermind Abu Bakar Bashir's sentence -- 30 months for the murder of 202 people -- has shocked the Australian public, not in the least because after long labor the mountain has brought forth a mouse. Former magistrate Brian Deegan, who lost his son Josh, 22, in the Bali bombing, said Bashir's sentence was outrageous. "It equates to a bit over a week (in jail) per man, woman and child that were hurt," Mr Deegan said today. "You get no closure out of this, it's absolutely insulting." Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty is warning that...

JAKARTA, March 3 - After a trial that lasted for several months, an Indonesian court today acquitted the radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir of the most serious terrorism charges in connection with the bombings in Bali and of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, and convicted him of only one count of criminal conspiracy. The five-judge panel then sentenced the soft-spoken 66-year old cleric to 30 months in jail, but said that he would receive credit for the 10 months he has already served while awaiting trial. Mr. Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyaah, a suspected terrorist organization, was...

AP - Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail after a court in Jakarta found him guilty of conspiracy in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. The charge was brought under Indonesia's standard criminal code. Alleged terror mastermind Bashir was acquitted of other more serious charges laid under the Indonesia's tough new anti-terrorism laws. "The defendant has been proven legally and convincingly to have committed the crime of evil conspiracy that caused fire that left other people dead", Chief Judge Soedarto said. Prosecutors had sought eight years...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Contacts between Philippine Islamic extremists and their international counterparts are growing, as shown by the increased sophistication of bombs used in recent terror attacks, the president's top spokesman said Wednesday. Intelligence reports have long suggested that the deadly Abu Sayyaf group and other local Islamic extremist groups have links to al-Qaida and the Southeast Asia regional terror network, Jemaah Islamiyah. "There are signs that these contacts are becoming closer, and they are able to exploit situations like the conflict in Sulu at a moment's notice," Silvestre Afable told The Associated Press. He noted that after a...

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR London AN unsuspected bit of good news related to the Indian Ocean tsunami was revealed this month when the International Maritime Bureau released its annual report on pirate attacks against international shipping. The new figures showed a 27 percent decline in 2004, to 325 incidents from 445 in 2003, and noted that there had not been single attack in the pirate-infested waters off Sumatra since the earthquake. Now, while these figures show an improvement, the positive trend should not distract us from the huge threat that piracy, and its connection to terrorism, pose to the global economy. Piracy...

JAKARTA, Feb. 14, Kyodo - Indonesian police disclosed Monday they have found a copy of what may be the constitution of alleged Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. The document was said to have been discovered after a bomb explosion Jan. 8 on Kalimantan Island, but its existence was only disclosed Monday by National Police Chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar during a hearing with a commission of the House of Representatives dealing with security affairs. Bachtiar said the explosion was in the oil town Balikpapan in East Kalimantan Province. The alleged bomber, identified as Sujono alias Sugiono, was injured in...

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines: One of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) members linked to the deadly Bali bombing in 2002 is believed to have been killed in an air strike on al-Qaeda-linked groups in the southern Philippines, a military official said on Saturday. The JI member, Dulmatin and another Indonesian, Mohammad Ali Abdul Rahiman, also known as Mauyha, were among those killed when aircraft targeted a meeting in the southern island of Mindanao on Thursday, said Colonel Gerry Jalandoni. Jalandoni, who commands forces in the area, said intelligence operatives reported that two of three Indonesian JI members who were in the area of...

THE ALLEGED PLOT to sow violence during today's celebration of the feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo was hatched by suspected members of the militant Hukbong Khalid Trinidad (HKT), the officer in charge of the Philippine National Police's Criminal Investigation and Detection Agency said yesterday. According to Supt. Rodolfo Mendoza, the HKT-supposedly named after a fallen Muslim militant-is a cell of the Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM), an organization of Islamic converts with alleged links to the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Jemaah Islamiyah. "The HKT/RSM should be taken very seriously as it could be even more dangerous...

Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer reports further on two separate Islamist terror organizations moving into the tsunami ravaged Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. Both groups are related to Indonesian cleric and terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir, the leader of al Qaeda affiliate Jemaah Islamiyah, and mastermind behind the terrorist attacks in Bali and the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. The first group of Islamist “humanitarians” is the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). Not only do they smash up bars and discos, they really care. Note how military training takes precedence over relief efforts, and that Indonesia has facilitated the movement of this group to...