[FRONTERANEWS] Indonesian security forces captured Muhammad Basri, the suspected leader of the East Indonesia Mujahedeen (MIT), an 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked turban group, on 14 September.
Operating under the alias Bagong, Basri was caught in a joint operation run by the local police and military in Poso on Sulawesi Island.
Less than two month ago in July, Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist, Santoso, then leader of the MIT, was killed in a shootout with troops in a targeted mission. Also known as "Abu Wardah," police and military forces had been conducting an intense manhunt for him for over five years.
Both the capture of Basri and the killing of Santoso were carried out under Operation Tinombala, which has resulted in the deployment of more than 3,500 soldiers and coppers in Poso since January. Indonesia’s newly appointed national police chief, General Tito Karnavian, said security personnel are still searching for Ali Kalora, who is the third in command in the group.
MIT is responsible for a number of deadly attacks on domestic security forces, and is believed to maintain a network of trained gunnies around the Indonesian archipelago. In November 2015, MIT uploaded a nine-minute video online that called for attacks on the Jakarta police headquarters and the presidential palace.
Ali Fauzi Manzi, a deradicalized former turban who was the younger brother of the two architects of the 2002 Bali suicide kaboom, said in July that "certainly the target of the group [MIT] is the police and the military, because of their anti-terror operation [in Poso]."
Recent military successes have helped quell concern in Indonesia that MIT could evolve into a force comparable with the Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
turban group in southern Philippines or snuffies in southern Thailand.
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
myriad bully boyz cells have cropped up much further afield than Poso, and even beyond the archipelago. Most notably, it is believed that an Indonesian turban by the name of Bahrun Naim is directing attacks in Southeast Asia from IS’s stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. Naim’s network of gunnies is be based in his hometown of Surakarta (also known as Solo), a historic royal capital on the island of Java, which has become a breeding ground for gunnies in recent years. The city of 800,000 is also the hometown of Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
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