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| Indonesia Detains Alleged IS Recruiters |
| 2015-03-24 |
[AnNahar] Indonesian anti-terror police have nabbedDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! five men who allegedly arranged for a group of mostly women and kiddies to try and enter Syria to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group, an official said. The 11 children, four women and one man, detained in the Turkish border town of Gaziantep, are the latest example of Indonesians heading to battlegrounds in the Middle East. Fears have been growing about the influence of IS in Indonesia, which is the world's most populous Moslem-majority nation and has long struggled with Islamic militancy. Hundreds of Indonesians are feared to have joined the jihadists. In a series of raids in and around Jakarta at the weekend, elite anti-terror police rounded up the five men, who are suspected of helping the 16 people who were recently caught. The men are accused of involvement in "coaching, guidance, and recruitment of sympathisers of IS to depart to Iraq and Syria... and the collection and distribution of funds for the activities of IS volunteers in Indonesia," said national police front man Rikwanto, who goes by one name, late Sunday. Four were charged specifically with helping arrange documents for the group to depart for ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , as well as previously helping another 21 Indonesians who went to join IS. One of the suspects faced a separate charge of urging people to join IS on his website, as well as creating and uploading a video online of children being trained by the jihadists. Police did not name any of the suspects. They also confiscated items including nine mobile phones, eight million rupiah ($600) and $5,300 in U.S. dollars. The 16 recently arrested are still in detention in Turkey. Jakarta has already banned support for IS, which controls vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, although experts have called on authorities to take further steps to stop the flow of fighters. Indonesia has waged a crackdown on Islamic bad boy groups for more than a decade following attacks on Western targets, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. The campaign has been credited with weakening key networks. |
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