[spetznaz]

Not yet for Australia ...but true for other countries that do not have the best of optics (Australia does as a leading Western nation) and a huge resource base. However, if China was to take a larger role in global geo-politics (say a truly multi-polar world, with China being the major counterpoint to the US), then Australia would find itself in a totally different situation. Close proximity, huge resource base, ENORMOUS empty space (comparing the size of the US to that of Australia is interesting), and hard to patrol all of it. There was actually a movie that came out recently about a Chinese invasion of Australia that comes out of the blue (Tomorrow, when the War Began .....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow,_When_the_War_Began_%28film%29#Plot).

[Fred Nerks]

JEMAAH ISLAMIYA.link

excerpt:

Bomb blasts at the Sari Club and Paddy’s Bar in Kuta which killed 200 people in 2002 provoked a major crackdown on the group by the Indonesian government. The consequent arrests, and hounding of the group, have forced changes in leadership, structure, and training.

Administrative structure

JI is thought to be divided into four regional groups, or mantiqi:

1.Mantiqi I - mainland Malaysia and Singapore (for fund-raising)

2.Mantiqi II - Java, Sumatra, other islands of Indonesia (jihad)

3.Mantiqi III - Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi (for training)

4.Mantiqi IV - Australia (for fund-raising)

Mantiqi I provided most of the leadership until about 2003 and these men were internationalist oriented, close to al-Qaeda. Mantiqi I is now on its knees and key cadres of JI are being drawn from Mantiqi II who are more Indonesia focused, less interested in the middle east, want to establish sharia state in Indonesia. This may lead to fewer attacks on Western targets in Indonesia.