Posted on 10/14/2002 12:17:45 AM PDT by efnwriter
efreedomnews WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE |
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Bali Explodes: Jemaah Islamiah - al Qaida at Work efreedomnews.com October 13, 2002 |
First, a small explosion went off outside Paddy's Discotheque, then, just down the street, a powerful car bomb erupted outside The attack marked the second anniversary of the USS Cole bombing in Yemen. A major suspect in the Sari, as well as the Cole attack, and the man Time magazine called "Asia's Own Osama," Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is the founder of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), an elaborate umbrella organization for al-Qaeda linked terrorist activity in Southeast Asia. Like Osama's fatwas of a pan-Arabic single Islamic nation, JI's mission is establishing a Daulah Islamiah an independent Islamic state encompassing Indonesia, Malaysia and the Muslim islands of the southern Philippines.
Kuwaiti Omar Farouk was recently arrested by Indonesian authorities and handed him over to the U.S. He has admitted that he was actually a senior representative of Al Qaida in Southeast Asia, sent to the region to plan attacks against Western interests in eight countries; Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia. He was ordered to assassinate Megawati Sukarnoputri a secular threat to Al Qaida's future goals in Indonesia, before she became President in July, 2001. He confessed to 24 attacks against churches and recreational spots on Christmas night 2000. He also confirmed Riduan Isamuddin's connection with al Qaida.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is quoted last week at the East Asian Economic Summit that Australia is "convinced" that Bashir is involved with Jemaah Islamiyah but that there are "political sensitivities in Indonesia about this issue." Having overthrown the dictator Suarto in 1998, the fragile democracy in heavily Muslim Indonesia has had little resolve in confronting organized Islamic terrorism. Now that the reality has struck home, the world is watching for their response.
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The faces of Peacful muslims. We need to rid the world of these horrible beasts.
-ccm
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