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...Jemaah Islamia: A growing al-Qaeda group with cells in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. It has working contacts with the MILF...
...GROUND U.S. and Philippine intelligence agents are sniffing out al-Qaeda cells. Three Jordanians and one Palestinian who all had lived in the country for a decade were arrested late last year, suspected of planning attacks. Jemaah Islamia has been plotting strikes all over the region--members were caught in Singapore last year. "I think the Americans need a launching pad and a listening post in Asia," says a foreign diplomat in Manila. "What better place than the Philippines...
...embassies in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore on Dec. 4. This screed fell into the hands of Indonesian police and surfaced in January as an exclusive for Singapore's Straits Times. A costly slip by the evildoers, it would seem. But why would the authors, purportedly from the radical Jemaah Islamiah organization, include their names and addresses? And if the document was so secret, why would those authors translate the original from Arabic into Jawi, a rare form of Indonesian readable only by linguists and elderly Muslim clerics?and have the translation done by three separate hands, according to a scholar...
...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...
...MILF's very dark side. It has trained Pakistani, Arab and Indonesian jihadis. Rohan Gunaratna of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrew's University in Scotland estimates that 400 to 600 foreigners have passed through its camps since 1996. Its links to Jemaah Islamiah are evidenced by the tale of Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, an Indonesian arrested in January in Manila for taking part in a Jemaah Islamiah plot to blow up U.S. targets in Singapore. Al-Ghozi led police to a massive store of explosives in Mindanao's General Santos City that...