[BenarNews] The killing of an Indonesian hard boy leader during a shootout with police in Central Sulawesi province may spell the demise of his 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....
group because he had no apparent successor, terrorism analysts said.
| The deaths reduced MIT’s members to four, with police vowing to capture the remnants "dead or alive." |
Security forces bumped off Ali Kalora, the top commander of the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT), and one of his followers who was identified as Jaka Ramadhan, in the jungles of Parigi Moutong regency on Saturday. The deaths reduced MIT’s members to four, with police vowing to capture the remnants "dead or alive." |