Pakistan, along with other Muslim countries with close ties to the US, is under threat from militant Muslim attacks, according to jailed Indonesian Muslim leader Abu Bakar Bashir. Bashir rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai as âan American doll,â and dismissed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a key US ally in the war against terrorism, as an American lackey. He accused Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri of neither understanding nor caring about Islam.
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Leaders of the small Islamic states around the Persian Gulf âare too soft against America. They are under Americaâs influence,â he said. âAs long as they are still under US control like Megawati, we cannot call them as Muslim leaders. The Muslim leader should be free from American influence and should have power to rule the country. A Muslim leader should control the country, and non-Muslims in the country should obey.â
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He told Washington Times in an interview from the Salemba Prison, Jakarta, that âas long as Muslim countries have close ties or support the US government or US policy, [they] will be threatened by a Muslim militant attack.â
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âIndonesia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and some Mideast countries,â were all potential targets, the 66-year-old cleric told the newspaper. He is said to be a guiding force behind the Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. He was convicted last year on charges of treason, but prosecutors failed to convince the court that the preacher was a leader of the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network responsible for a string of bombings and attacks across Southeast Asia, including the October 2002 explosions that killed 202 persons, including many Australian and Western tourists, in the Indonesian beach resort of Bali.
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