Word: islamiah
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...Islamic state from the predominantly Catholic Philippines is real. (Abu Sayyaf traded that ambition for lucre years ago.) It's got guns, training camps, an ideology?and, it now appears, more current and substantial links to international terrorist groups, including Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia (KMM) and its benefactor, Jemaah Islamiah, which is emerging as Southeast Asia's al-Qaeda subsidiary...
...TIME: But it is not just the government that is accusing you. Several of the Malaysians under arrest there have identified you as the leader of the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia (KMM) and the leader of Jemaah Islamiah...
...advocating the overthrow of any government," Abubakar says. "What I want to see is a government committed to Islam." He blames Mahathir, the U.S. and a worldwide Jewish conspiracy for his problems (see interview). "This is just a political game," he says of the charges. "Jemaah Islamiah is an invention by Mahathir to instill fear [into] the Muslim community...
...Jemaah Islamiah's reach extends far beyond just Malaysia. In December, Singaporean police arrested 13 alleged members of the Jemaah Islamiah and uncovered detailed plans to bomb U.S. targets in the city-state. In addition to the scheme involving the missing tons of ammonium nitrate that were destined for Singapore, police there have unearthed another Jemaah Islamiah plot to order a further nine tons of the chemical. (For comparison, the devastating Oklahoma City bombing required only one ton of ammonium nitrate...
...Abubakar: This is just a political game. I had never heard of the KMM or Jemaah Islamiah until I returned to Indonesia. I have not been back to Malaysia since 1999, so how could I be the KMM's leader? Jemaah Islamiah is an invention by Mahathir to instill fear in the Muslim community...