Word: islamiah
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...TIME: How will you deal with Jemaah Islamiah, the network of Islamic militants blamed for bombings in Bali and Jakarta, and the radical religious schools linked to those found responsible? YUDHOYONO: This will require communication and the right approach, so that law enforcement will not be misunderstood [by the Indonesian public] as the government's doing something unfair toward certain individuals or religious schools. I will review the steps being taken to deal with terrorism by the judicial, intelligence and police bodies to determine what actions need to be taken to eliminate terrorism, including the position of Jemaah Islamiah...
...TIME: Should Jemaah Islamiah (the network of Islamic militants blamed for a spate of bombings in Indonesia) or any pesantren (religious boarding schools) suspected of terrorist activities be banned? SBY: Based on early intelligence reports, we first have to look at areas that are suspected of having terrorist activities so that, without the president having to say that legal steps need to be taken toward pesantren A or pesantren B, action will have already been taken. And if there is enough proof then definitive legal steps will be taken. This will require communication and the right approach so that...
...granddaughter of a Balinese, though, she managed to take the island as a whole. "I very much understand how [the victims] feel, but there are many aspects that have to be considered," says I Made Mangku Pastika, Bali's chief of police, whose investigation helped break up the Jemaah Islamiah network blamed for the attack. "We have to think about the psychological impact that an execution might have." The authorities worry that the three bombers on death row in Bali's Krobokan prison may be turned into martyrs if they are executed...
...Organizations like Jemaah Islamiah have very close links with terrorist organizations beyond our region. To think you can simply focus on the region and get away with ignoring all the other challenges the war on terror brings us is mistaken." Ending Taliban rule in Afghanistan reduced the flow of al-Qaeda-trained terrorists into Southeast Asia, Downer points out. On the other hand, Labor's Christmas troop pullout from Iraq "would give an enormous propaganda victory to the terrorists, not just in Iraq but elsewhere, including Southeast Asia." Abu Baker Bashir, the alleged leader of J.I., said last month that...
...extend his initial five-year term by two years; Western observers criticized his 2001 re-election as unfair. Terror Continuum INDONESIA A suspected suicide car bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta killed nine Indonesians and injured 182. Police said the attack bore the hallmarks of Jemaah Islamiah, a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda. Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been a staunch ally of the U.S. war on terror...