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      Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiyah sets up new terror unit
      http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=26570
      JAKARTA
      10-Apr-07

      AN AL-QAEDA linked extremist group blamed for the Bali bombings has formed a new military wing in Indonesia with about 100 trained operatives, a report said yesterday.

      The wing, called the Sariyyah or military company, has held training exercises to teach its operatives bomb making and firearm assembly skills, Indonesia’s Tempo magazine reported.

      The wing is headed by the suspected leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Dujana, who was forced to restructure the Islamic extremist group after anti-terror police arrested several of his commanders late last year, the report said.

      The commanders were arrested by Indonesia’s US-trained Detachment 88 which has led a series of raids against Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed for the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, that killed over 200 people, and other violent attacks on Western interests.

      Tempo magazine, in its report, cited a militant captured in a raid by Detachment 88 in March this year.

      The militant, Ayyasy, was quoted as saying that before his arrest, he headed the logistics unit of the new wing which has also held training sessions on the slopes of a mountain in central Java.

      According to Ayyasy, the wing has four territorial commanders, although two have recently been captured, with only the heads of the capital Jakarta and central Java areas still in charge.

      In the raids in March, one suspected militant was killed, another injured and several others arrested on Indonesia’s main island of Java.

      Australian and Indonesian police say the swoops smashed a suspected terrorist cell and that one of those arrested was linked to a deadly attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004.

      Intelligence gleaned from those arrested led to a major seizure of bombs and weapons, which police have said would have been used in atrocities.

      Police also said they found charts in a Jemaah Islamiyah hideout that detailed the new structure of the group.

      According to Tempo’s report, leader Abu Dujana, known as the “Teacher” and “Pak Guru” to his men, was contemptuous of suspected militant Noordin Muhammad Top, Southeast Asia’s most wanted man.

      Noordin is thought to have led JI when it conducted attacks between 2002 and 2005 before Abu Dujana, who reputedly fought with the mujahideen in Afghanistan against the Soviets, took over.

      Abu Dujana argued Noordin’s attacks lacked coordination and had hindered JI, the report said.

      Security experts suspect Noordin, a Malaysian who remains at large, has left JI to form his own hard-line militant group.

      The United States says JI aims to establish a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia through violent jihad.AFP

      ~JITW

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      ROB
      Keymaster

      “The United States says JI aims to establish a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia through violent jihad.”

      I am pretty sure it isn’t only the US saying that.

    • #8706

      Things have really gotten worse here with JL and other groups like them. They stay out of the major cities now but they are getting a foothold on some of the smaller islands in the jungle.

      But the Military and Police have been cracking down on them hard, about every other day they make a raid and kill or capture (probably worse here) some bad guys. On the last raid they killed one dude and captured 3 (I think) and seized like 10 guns (illegal here) and a shitload of explosives. Supposedly the police stopped a major terrorist attack.

      It wasn’t like this even 6 months ago, but ever sense the police started there new “anti-terror” unit they have been kicking ass and taking names.

      The Anti-Terror unit is called the “88’s”, like in the Kill Bill movies…funny but they are bad ass, trained by the Australian SAS

      ~JITW

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