Word: rukhanah
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...changed. Fathur, who was arrested in the Philippines two weeks ago for allegedly devising bombs to be used in terrorist attacks, was 13 years old and studying at an Islamic boarding school three hours from his village in east Java. "I brought him his favorite food," says Rukhanah, a 58-year-old wearing a traditional white Islamic headdress. "But he politely told me that he was fasting, even though it wasn't during the fasting month. I cried then, feeling proud but sad that my very young boy chose to live piously. How can you not be proud when your...
...Whether Rukhanah's son got true piety is uncertain, but he did pick up a deadly trade: a bombing spree he purportedly planned in Manila 13 months ago killed 22 people and injured 80. The 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...
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