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| JI no longer recruiting Muslim hardliners |
| 2005-10-23 |
| Seems more than a little counter-intuitive to me, but okay ... Terrorists in Indonesia, the world's most Moslem populous nation, have changed their tactics from recruiting Moslem radicals to other groups, local media reported Sunday. "Evidence collected by our intelligence agents shows that the terrorists no longer draw their new recruits from among Moslem hardliners but from other groups," the state-run Antara news agency quoted Central Java police chief, Inspector General Chaerul Rasyid, as saying. He explained that the change was due to the roles of Moslem clerics in Central Java and other provinces for their support of the police's efforts in fighting against terrorism. "I have met a number of Moslem clerics in Central Java, including Ahdurrahman Chudori in Magelang who supports the eradication of terrorism," Rasyid said, referring to one among influential Moslem clerics in the province. "The clerics had expressed their readiness to watch out in order to help Moslems and Islamic boarding schools not infiltrated by terrorists because Islam does not teach violence," he added. Most of the perpetrators in the first bombing attacks on the island of Bali three years ago had lived and studied at Islamic boarding schools in Central Java, in particular the Ngruki Islamic boarding school, established by the jailed Moslem cleric militant Abu Bakar Ba'asyir. They were including three of the key players in the October 2002 blasts, Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, who have been convicted to death and currently waiting execution before teams of police firing squads, were graduates of the Ngruki Islamic boarding school. Rasyid was quoted as telling a group of Moslem clerics in the province earlier this week that terrorists in Indonesia have recruited 35 new suicide bombers, and were shifting tactics from recruiting impoverished families to enlisting criminals and drug addicts to carry out attacks. Rasyid said the chief of the national police, General Sutanto, has instructed all regional police headquarters to intensify alertness ahead of the Moslem Eid el-Fitr holiday. The Eid el-Fitr festivity marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan is due to fall on November 3-4. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 If this is true then it is a good sign and progress. Like the ASG in the PI once the Muzzie hardline support fades their true colors show and they go back to being the criminals they always were. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2005-10-23 09:34 |
| #2 This could be a good opportunity to do a little ol' fashioned infiltratin'... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-10-23 01:55 |
| #1 "Evidence collected by our intelligence agents shows that the terrorists no longer draw their new recruits from among Moslem hardliners but from other groups," the state-run Antara news agency quoted Central Java police chief, Inspector General Chaerul Rasyid, as saying. Rasyid has been breathing his own exhaust for way too long. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-10-23 01:49 |