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2021-05-13 Southeast Asia
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MIT Militant Suspects Kill 4 Farmers in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Region
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[BenarNews] Suspected pro-Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Indonesian snuffies killed four farmers in Central Sulawesi province on Tuesday, police said, in the first presumed attack by members of the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) group targeting civilians in more than five months.
The body of one of the victims of Tuesday’s attack in Kalemago, a village in Poso regency, was found decapitated, said Senior Commissioner Didik Supranoto, a front man for Central Sulawesi police force.
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"Currently the four bodies of the victims with the initials P.D., N.U., L.L., and P.P. have been taken to their home in Kalemago Village," Didik told BenarNews in Palu, the bustling provincial capital.
Poso has long been a hotbed of MIT activity. The group now has been reduced to nine fighters, according to Indonesian officials, although joint police and military manhunts mounted over the past several years have failed to wipe out MIT entirely.
"The area has been frequented by MIT and beheadings have only been carried out by MIT. We strongly suspect that the perpetrators were MIT," Didik said.
During the Tuesday morning attack, a fellow farmer said he saw a group of suspects approach the victims before he fled and informed the police.
"He saw the five perpetrators carrying firearms and sharp weapons. When the police showed him photos of people on the wanted list, he recognized one of them, a runaway named Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, alias Farel, alias Anas," Didik said.
He said police and soldiers rushed to the scene and found the bodies of the four victims, whose bodies bore slash wounds. A cycle of violence belonging to one of the farmers had been torched.
Members of Operation Madago Raya, the latest iteration of a joint task force whose mission is to hunt down the remnants of MIT, were pursuing the killers, Didik said.
"We believe the attackers were not far from the scene," he said.
"The motive is not yet known. What is certain is that MIT did this as an act of terror to frighten the villagers," Didik added.
Tuesday's killings came two months after a policeman, a soldier and a pair of MIT suspects were killed in two separate shootouts in Poso.
In the last attack on civilians that was blamed on MIT, four villagers living in a Christian community in nearby Sigi regency were killed on Nov. 28, 2020. One of the victims of that attack was also beheaded and two of the bodies were charred, according to police. The attackers in Sigi also burned down eight houses.
That attack was the deadliest one till then carried out by MIT.
‘CANNOT BE UNDERESTIMATED’
MIT, which has pledged allegiance to the murderous Moslem group known as Islamic State (IS), has survived for years in the mountains and jungle of Poso.
In 2016, police potted MIT’s previous leader, Santoso, who was the first Indonesian hard boy to pledge allegiance to IS publicly.
MIT is one of two pro-IS groups operating in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Moslem-majority country. The other is Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which authorities have blamed for most terror attacks in the archipelago nation during the past five years.
Police and military members have operated a joint task force since 2016 to hunt down MIT hard boys.
Beginning on Jan. 1, authorities have taken a new approach to bringing an end to MIT, by renaming Operation Tinombala as Madago Raya (Kindness), as part of a strategy that focuses on humanitarian and social activities, police said.
"They still exist and cannot be underestimated. The task force must really make extra efforts to crush them," Lukman S Tahir, a terrorism observer at the State Islamic Institute in Palu, told BenarNews, alluding to MIT.
"We see that the operation has not been successful in eradicating MIT. We hope that the military and police can work together well to solve this so that all people, especially those in Poso, can really feel safe," he said. 
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