Word: nyupeno
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With its neat rows of classrooms and its white domed mosque glowing against a backdrop of misty hills, the Hidayatullah Islamic school on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi seems the very picture of peace. "Yes," smiles Nyupeno, a school administrator, "it's quite cozy here...
...Nyupeno's smile quickly disappears when he is asked about some of the people who have allegedly passed through the school: suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast Asian network of Muslim militants blamed for numerous bombings region-wide, including the October 2002 attack in Bali that claimed 202 lives. Nyupeno flatly denies police allegations that a convicted Bali bomber, Ali Imron, had once taken refuge in one of the spartan cubicles at the rear of the mosque where the staff sleep. He also rebuts claims made by another bombing suspect during police interrogation that the school was used...
...strict secrecy practiced by JI and its affiliates means that Nyupeno and many other teachers might have had no idea of the true identity of the travelers who took advantage of the school's hospitality. (A teacher at the school, whom police allege has links to JI, disappeared in November last year.) Indeed, one of JI's greatest strengths is that its cells function as independent, clandestine units with scant knowledge of the rest of the organization. After his arrest in April, one top JI militant, Mohamad Nasir bin Abas, explained to police, "There can be members...
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