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2021-07-18 Southeast Asia
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Indonesian Police: Suspected Militant Killed This Week Was Senior MIT Member
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[BenarNews] Indonesian police said Friday that one of two suspected Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) Death Eaters killed in a security raid in Central Sulawesi province this week was the group’s second-most senior member who initially had been misidentified.
The slain suspect was Muhammad Busra, or 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...
, not Ahmad Gazali, provincial police front man Didik Supranoto said.
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"They [Gazali and Qatar] looked alike. After identification it was clear that one of the slain men was Qatar," Didik told BenarNews on Friday.
A joint military and police task force killed Qatar and Rukli, the second suspect, during a raid in the mountainous jungle of Parigi Moutong regency on Sunday, reducing MIT’s strength to seven members.
MIT is one of two 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....
groups operating in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Moslem-majority country. The other is Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which authorities have blamed for terror attacks in the archipelago nation during the past five years.
In May, police said MIT had split into two groups in an attempt to elude authorities, with one group led by Ali Kalora active in Sigi regency and the other under the leadership of Qatar operating in Poso.
Now that Qatar is dead, the four-man MIT faction led by Ali Kalora can surrender, said Brig. Gen. Farid Makruf, deputy commander of the operation to hunt down MIT Death Eaters, codenamed Madago Raya.
"Now we just have to wait for the time when Ali Kalora and his friends decide to get out of their jungle hideout and surrender," Farid told BenarNews.
In May, Ali and his followers wanted to turn themselves in to the authorities but feared reprisals after another the faction led by Qatar threatened to kill their families, Farid said.
Didik said police would guarantee the safety of Ali, his followers and their families if they surrender.
Farid said intelligence suggested that Ali and Qatar had been at odds since the death of MIT founder Santoso, who was killed by security forces in 2016.
"In the Sunday, July 11 shootout, one of three Qatar followers was shot and maimed. We hope that the three of them will also be arrested soon," said Farid.
Qatar and Rukli were buried in a public cemetery in Palu on Wednesday, police said.
"After the autopsies were completed, the bodies were immediately buried," said Didik, adding that police had taken DNA samples from them and notified their families in Bima.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
Mohammad Affandi, a researcher on terrorism at the Ruang Empat Kali Empat think-tank, said claims that Ali and his men wanted to surrender should be taken with a grain of salt.
"It could be just a trick in the hope that people believe that the Poso problem can be resolved soon," Affandi told BenarNews.
"What about the families of the victims of the MIT’s terror? Will the government guarantee their security and welfare?
"How is the government going to protect and provide legal assistance to the families of people killed by task force members," he asked, referring to three people killed in two incidents in Poso last year, allegedly by police and military personnel taking part in the operation to hunt MIT turbans. 
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