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Southeast Asia

2 suspected IS-linked militants killed in central Indonesia

2021-07-12

[AlAhram] Security operations in Central Sulawesi have intensified in recent months to try to capture members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen

...also Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen, known locally as Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT). One of two ISIS provinces in Indonesia...

network. The network pledged allegiance to the 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....
group in 2014.

Indonesian security forces on Sunday killed two suspected forces of Evil with ties to the Islamic State group who were believed to be connected to the killing of Christian farmers on Sulawesi island, the country's military said.

The two men, identified as Rukli and Ahmad Gazali, were fatally shot during a pre-dawn raid by a five-man team of military and police in Central Sulawesi province's mountainous Parigi Moutong district, said Maj. Gen. Richard Tampubolon, who heads the joint operation. Parigi Moutong borders Poso district, considered an hard boy hotbed in the province.

Security operations in Central Sulawesi have intensified in recent months to try to capture members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen network, particularly targeting Ali Kalora, the group's leader and Indonesia's most wanted Death Eater. The network pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in 2014.

Tampubolon said the security team located the Death Eater camp on Wednesday in the densely forested village of Tanah Lanto.

The team was able to approach the camp early Sunday with five forces of Evil inside, however three forces of Evil escaped the firefight into the jungle, Tampubolon said in a statement.

He said security forces were still searching for the seven remaining members of group who are still on the lam, including Kalora.

The East Indonesia Mujahideen has grabbed credit for several killings of police and Christians.

In May, the group killed four Christians in Kalemago village of Poso district, including one victim who was beheaded. Authorities said the attack was in Dire Revenge for the killing in March of two Death Eaters, including the son of the group's former leader Abu Wardah Santoso.

Kalora's predecessor was killed by security forces in July 2016. Dozens of other leaders and members of the group have been killed or captured since then.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Moslem-majority nation, has conducted a sustained crackdown on Islamic forces of Evil since bombings on the tourist island of Bali in 2002 killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.

Attacks on foreigners have been largely replaced by smaller, less deadly strikes targeting the government, police and anti-terrorism forces.

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