Word: islamiah
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...With Abubakar acting as the spiritual leader and controller of the purse strings and Hambali responsible for most of the planning and day-to-day administration, the two men wooed KMM members in Selangor and elsewhere into a new organization they established in the late 1990s, called the Jemaah Islamiah. Abubakar hammered home the themes he still preaches at his school in central Java today: the glory of a martyr's death and the overriding goal of setting up a Muslim government. Officials say he espoused the formation of a new Islamic state encompassing Malaysia, Indonesia, the southern Philippines, Singapore...
...founding father and spiritual leader, Hambali was his chief executive officer. A 36-year-old veteran of the Afghan struggle against the Soviet Union, Hambali was the practical man who made the plans and gave the orders. Officials say he was responsible for organizing paramilitary training stints for Jemaah Islamiah members in Afghanistan and Pakistan...
...role of bombmaker was a surprising one for Yazid, who officials say was a minor figure in the Selangor branch of the KMM, a "runner" as one puts it. But Yazid flourished in the Jemaah Islamiah, rising to become Hambali's most trusted lieutenant. Hambali ordered Yazid to host the two hijackers who died in the Pentagon attack at his condo in Kuala Lumpur. Yazid has told his interrogators that he had no knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks but, one official says, he suspected the men who stayed at his apartment had some role in the attacks because "they...
...school in the east Java town of Ngruki, near Solo, where Fathur got his brand of religion was founded by Abubakar Ba'asyir, a 64-year-old Islamic cleric. Police in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines believe Abubakar is the leader of a network of terrorist cells called Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian version of al-Qaeda with possible links to Osama bin Laden's group. Abubakar was not at the school while Fathur was studying there; he had fled to Malaysia after serving a three-year jail sentence for advocating the establishment of an Islamic state. But Fathur absorbed...
...region?perhaps with hopes of carving out an Islamic state from parts of the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia. The central figure, they say, is Abubakar. Singapore claims he masterminded the bomb plots it uncovered last month, which led to the arrest of 13 members of Jemaah Islamiah. Since last August, Malaysia has detained 50 members of the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia (KMM), a group it says was directed by Abubakar...