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| SE Asian Terror Mastermind Hambali to Stay at Guantanamo |
| 2016-10-27 |
| [AnNahar] A Southeast Asian terror criminal mastermind who has been accused over a series of high-profile attacks will stay in detention at Guantanamo Bay after U.S. officials rejected his bid for release. A U.S. government body tasked with reducing the number of inmates at Guantanamo said that Indonesian krazed killer Riduan Isamuddin, better known by his nom de guerre Hambali ...real name Riduan Isamuddin, close personal friend of Osama bin Laden, one of the founders of Jemaah Islamiyah and the planner of the 2002 Bali bombings. He was captured with the help of a mid-Eastern intel service, shipped to Guantanamo to rot but he'll likely be released eventually because that was a long time ago and we were all so much younger then... , still represented a "significant threat to the security of the United States." The decision is likely to be welcomed by governments in Southeast Asia as signs indicate that the influence of 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 has sparked a resurgency in militancy. Hambali, who was captured in 2003 and sent to Guantanamo three years later, was believed to be al-Qaeda's top representative in Southeast Asia and operational chief of regional krazed killer group Jemaah Ismaliyah (JI). He was accused of helping criminal mastermind the 2002 bombings on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali that left 202 people dead, and plotting other attacks in Indonesia, as well as on U.S. airliners. Hambali appeared before the Periodic Review Board at Guantanamo in August seeking his release after 10 years in detention without charge. However the board said in a statement rejecting his request that Hambali had a "lengthy history as a jihadist" and had played a "significant role in major terrorist attacks and plotting". After US President Barack Obama teachable moment... unveiled a roadmap to close Guantanamo in February, the Indonesian government expressed opposition to the potential return of Hambali to the country. The number of prisoners at Guantanamo, set up on Cuba after the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001, is down to 60 as Obama seeks to fulfil a pledge to shutter the facility before leaving office. Indonesia, the world's most populous Moslem-majority country, had succeeded in weakening dangerous networks, including JI, with a tough crackdown following the Bali bombings. However IS has inspired a string of attacks and plots in the past year in Indonesia and other parts of the region, including a deadly gun and suicide kaboom assault in Jakarta in January claimed by the jihadists. |
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