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...Indonesian, Malaysian and even Arab extremists have previously been known to take refuge in Mindanao. For example, both Agus Dwikarna and Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, two prominent Indonesian militants currently under arrest in Manila for possession of explosives, did stints in Mindanao in the late 1990s. The MILF willingly provided training facilities to foreign fighters, but in the days following the war to oust the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group's hospitality was motivated more by international Islamist solidarity than by anti-Western jihad. In 2000, the Philippine military overran all of the MILF's bases?including its two biggest...
...another group: Laskar Jundullah. Following December's bombings at a Toyota dealer and a McDonald's restaurant in Makassar, the South Sulawesi-based Islamic group has found itself the target of police scrutiny, in part because of the group's own geneaology. One of its alleged co-founders, Agus Dwikarna, is a convicted terrorist serving a 17-year jail sentence in the Philippines, while the other is Kuwaiti Omar al-Faruq, the top al-Qaeda operative in Southeast Asia until his June arrest in West Java. (He is now in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location.) Other members have been...
...other Western embassies in Singapore and Jakarta, as well as launching a U.S.S. Cole-style attack against U.S. naval vessels making port calls. JI hooked up with the MILF and other regional militant groups, and with al-Qaeda funding established its own franchises, such as Laskar Jundullah headed by Agus Dwikarna, now in jail in Manila after being caught with explosives, to wage sectarian conflicts in Indonesia's Sulawesi and Maluku regions. But as increasing numbers of JI personnel are picked up, the group, like its patron al-Qaeda, is changing strategies. Last week the Canadian and Australian embassies...
...political career before national and regional security. Even after Bali, Jakarta is only going after JI members directly connected to the Kuta bomb blast, not JI as an organization and not its political wing?the Mujahidin Council led by Abubakar Ba'asyir?or its militia?Laskar Jundullah led by Agus Dwikarna. As a result, JI will be able to strike again inside Indonesia and continue to use Indonesia as a launching pad for attacks on its neighbors...
...doubt that this was a sophisticated attack," said an Australian Federal Police investigator. High-level police sources tell TIME that one Islamic group is of particular interest: Sulawesi-based Laskar Jundullah, the same group al-Qaeda whistle-blower Omar al-Faruq told the CIA he'd helped establish with Agus Dwikarna, an Indonesian businessman. Dwikarna was arrested last March at a Manila airport after security guards found plastic explosives and detonation cables in his suitcase. He's now serving a minimum 10-year sentence in the Philippines...