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| Indonesian Militants Fighting in Syria |
| 2014-02-02 |
| [An Nahar] Indonesians who have joined fellow bully boyz fighting in Syria could help reinvigorate a once-powerful bully boy group responsible for major bombings in the world's most populous Moslem country, a report said. "The conflict in Syria has captured the imagination of Indonesian bully boyz in a way no foreign war has before," said a report by Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict published this week. It is a change of pattern for Indonesian faceless myrmidons who previously have gone to Afghanistan in the late 1980s and 1990s mainly for training, or to the Paleostinian territories to give moral and financial support to fellow Moslems, the report said. "The enthusiasm for Syria is directly linked to predictions in Islamic eschatology that the final battle at the end of time will take place in Sham, the region sometimes called Greater Syria, or the Levant, encompassing Syria, Jordan, Leb, Paleostine and Israel," the report added. This notion has attracted Indonesians from different radical streams to go or try to go to Syria, including the Jemaah Islamiyah, or JI, a group responsible for the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali which killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. |
| Posted by:Fred |