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INDONESIAN cleric Abu Bakar Bashir told a court Thursday that Muslims have a religious duty to take up arms against non-believers, as he offered his first defence against terrorism charges. The cleric who is regarded as a spiritual leader of Islamist militants around the region is accused of leading an Al-Qaeda-style militant group that was discovered training recruits in Aceh province last year. Police jostled with about 200 of the frail 72-year-old's radical supporters as he arrived under tight guard amid shouts of "Allahu akbar" ... The cleric is an alleged co-founder of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror organisation blamed...

SNIPPET: "The police arrested two terrorist suspects at the house: Fahri Tanjung, also known as Hilmi, and Hamzah. The police also found chemicals they believed were to be used to make explosives and an activated hand-made high-explosive bomb inside the house. West Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Sutarman said the police detonated the high-explosive bomb on location after failing to defuse it. Books and VCDs on jihad, as well as an air rifle were seized as evidence. One of the VCDs was titled Afghanistan jihad: The journey of the oppressed. Sutarman said the suspects had been involved in acts of...

Bali bombing cleric attacks western tourists By Nick Squires in Sydney Last Updated: 1:56am GMT 25/03/2008 Western tourists in Indonesia are "maggots, snakes and worms" who should be beaten up, the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings has told hardline Islamic followers. Abu Bakar Bashir, the cleric who was convicted of conspiracy over the Bali bombings but later cleared and released from prison after 26 months, said the island resort had been overrun by scantily-clad tourists who deserved to be attacked for their immorality. "Worms, snakes, maggots... those are animals that crawl. Take a look at Bali... those infidel...

Israel's air force fired around 20 missiles at targets in Gaza City on Saturday, causing heavy damage, a Reuters witness said. The IDF has confirmed the report. (Hanan Greenberg and Reuters)

BOYOLALI (Indonesia) - For the skullcapped students of the Darusy Syahadah Islamic school, there is no question that the three radical jihadis behind the 2002 bombings on Indonesia's Bali island are heroes. Sheltering from the equatorial sun on the steps of the school's mosque, the students crowd to offer their approval of bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra. Authorities said this week the three bombers will face the firing squad by early November for their role in the attack, which killed 202 people. 'They're holy warriors, that's how I respond, they're holy warriors,' said Sir Muhammad Royhan Syihabuddin Ar-Rohmi, a...

AN Indonesian Islamic cleric linked to the three extremists awaiting execution for the Bali bombings said today the 2002 attack which killed more than 200 people was the work of the CIA. Abu Bakar Bashir told AFP the US intelligence agency had fired a nuclear missile at the Bali tourist strip from a ship off the coast. "It has been mentioned as being a micro-nuclear bomb, not a regular bomb... The bomb was made by the CIA, it could be no one else," he said in his house at the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school on Indonesia's Java island. He said...

ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to beat up Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs. In the sermon, organised by an Islamic youth organisation and delivered a few kilometres from the home village of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, Bashir likened tourists in Bali to "worms, snakes, maggots", and specifically referred to the immorality of Australian infidels. The address was caught on video by an Australian university student. "The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death," said the cleric, who was convicted of...

JAKARTA (AP): An alleged Southeast Asian terror leader threatened to call for holy war against Indonesian police Thursday, days after an anti-terror squad shot dead 15 suspected Islamic extremists. Abu Bakar Bashir, accused by Australia and the United States of being a key figure in the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, said Muslims should stop serving in the police's anti-terror squad on Indonesia's conflict-ridden Sulawesi island. "If Muslims are being killed, then we must fight back," the 69-year-old cleric told around 100 hard-liners outside the National Human Rights Commission in the capital, Jakarta, where they were protesting Monday's killings. "If necessary, we...

Indonesia's Supreme Court has overturned militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir's conviction on conspiracy charges in the 2002 Bali bombings. The verdict clears his name since he has already served his two-and-a-half year sentence. "The court today decided to uphold Bashir's judicial review," chief judge German Hoediarto said on Thursday.

The Indonesian Islamist cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was released from prison in July 2006 after having been charged with complicity in the Bali terror attacks of 2002, gave an interview to Al-Jazeera in which he outlined his plans for establishing an Islamic state in Indonesia. Bashir attacked democracy and the West, and called on Muslims to wage jihad against the ruling regimes in the Muslim world. The interview appeared on August 21, 2006, on Al-Jazeera's English-language website. The following are excerpts from the article:(1) "We Demand an Islamic State" "We demand an Islamic state, and not some form of...

JAKARTA, July 30 (UPI) -- The leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council says he wants to convert Indonesia into an "Allahcracy," it was reported Sunday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, free after serving two years in jail for his role in a bombing of two nightclubs in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, tells the Sunday Times of London that Islamist bombings "are reactions by Muslims to defend themselves." "The democratic system is not the Islamic way," he says. "It is forbidden. Democracy is based on people, but the state must be based on God's law. I call it Allahcracy."...

Militan cleric Abu Bakar Bashir gestures during a press conference at his residence in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, June 15, 2006. The Freed cleric on Thursday described the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings as "God's will" and encouraged non-Muslim survivors of the attacks to convert to Islam. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)","DITA ALANGKARA", "AP"); June 15, 2006, 10:08AMCleric Calls on Bush to Convert to Islam By IRWAN FIRDAUS Associated Press Writer © 2006 The Associated Press SOLO, Indonesia — A reputed leader of an al-Qaida-linked terror group blamed for deadly bombings across Indonesia on Thursday accused President Bush and Australia's prime...

Militant Islamic Cleric Released from Indonesian Prison Tuesday , June 13, 2006 JAKARTA, Indonesia — A hardline cleric alleged to be a top leader in the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group was released from prison Wednesday to cries of "God is great" from scores of cheering supporters. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, had served 26 months for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people and thrust Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, onto the front lines of the war on terror. "I thank Allah that I am free today," a smiling and waving Bashir said after...

Indonesia will investigate a hardline Muslim boarding school founded by radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir as part of a crackdown on Islamic militancy following recent triple suicide bombings in Bali. Police in Bali also said they would charge an extremist accused of being the right-hand man for fugitive terrorist Noordin Top with involvement in the October 1 attacks, meaning he will face a possible death penalty. Indonesia's Religious Affairs Department said it would investigate the teachings of the Al Mukmin boarding school founded by Bashir near the town in Ngruki. The school counts several of the original Bali bombers among...

Terror: As Indonesians clean up after another terror strike, there's plenty of hand-wringing about why it doesn't stop. For terrorists, though, there's little mystery: Indonesia's courts are making terrorism cheap. Saturday's bombings at three crowded tourist restaurants on Bali were the fourth major strike against Indonesia in as many years. With 22 dead and 101 injured, there's no doubt this was an effort to drive out visitors. Tourism amounts to a quarter of Indonesia's hard-currency earnings. Scaring tourists away is an act of economic warfare. But Indonesia's legal system doesn't seem to take terrorism seriously as a national threat. Through...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A militant cleric jailed for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings will be among 53,000 inmates receiving sentence reductions to mark Indonesia's independence day, authorities and media reports said Saturday. Abu Bakar Bashir, alleged spiritual head of the al-Qaida-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, was convicted in March of conspiracy in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, many of them Australian tourists. Others convicted in the Bali blasts will also receive reductions in their prison terms, Minister of Justice and Human Rights Hamid Awaluddin told the Jakarta Post. "Convicts with a record of good behavior...

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, upholding his 30-month prison sentence for his part in the conspiracy behind the 2002 Bali bombings, a lawyer for Bashir said yesterday. The appeal had been filed in late June after appellate judges at Jakarta High Court upheld a 30-month jail sentence handed down by the lower court in March. “The appeal was rejected, but we will pursue a judicial review of the case,” the aging cleric’s lawyer, Mahendra Data, said. Data said he had been notified “verbally” on August 3 about the court’s decision,...

This week's Indonesian court verdict against Abu Bakar Bashir on 'evil conspiracy' charges meted out a pickpocket's punishment to a terrorist ringleader responsible for an atrocity second only to 9/11. Bashir's 2 ½ year sentence for the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombing is a parody of justice and an insult to the lost lives of the U.S., Australian, Indonesian and other citizens who died in the attack. This sentence is especially bitter because the U.S. and Australia have expended so much blood and treasure to rid the world of terrorism elsewhere in Asia. But in Indonesia, there is no justice...

ACCUSED of providing long-term liaison between al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the young man with impeccable JI lineage smiled gently and began his long litany of denials and refusals. Abdul Rohim, the youngest son of accused terrorist cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, denied he had ever met convicted Australian terrorist Jack Roche in Pakistan. He insisted his years in the sprawling Pakistani city of Karachi were spent studying, not working with al-Qaeda. He told The Australian he did not even recognise the name of the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, let alone serve...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian government yesterday opened the retrial of an Indonesian cleric charged with leading an al-Qaida-linked group and inciting its members to carry out attacks against U.S. interests. Prosecutors seek to prove Abu Bakar Bashir, 66, is responsible for last year's suicide bomb attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12 people, mostly Indonesians. The charges are filed under a new anti-terror law, which authorizes the death penalty if he is found guilty. The government also charged Bashir with involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. That...

Indonesian police say they will not charge a militant Islamic cleric for the 2002 nightclub bombing on the island of Bali. The decision was made just days after Indonesia's Constitutional Court limited the use of the country's anti-terrorism legislation. Indonesian police said Wednesday that Abu Bakar Bashir, the militant cleric alleged to have been the leader of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, will not be charged in connection with the October 2002 Bali bombing. More than 200 people were killed in that attack. Most of them were young western tourists. The decision comes just days after Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled...

MAKASSAR, Indonesia, May 1 (Reuters) - Indonesian police fired warning shots into the air and clashed with supporters of Muslim preacher and terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir in the eastern city of Makassar on Saturday, injuring dozens. A Reuters photographer saw dozens of police beat unarmed students with bamboo sticks while others fired a volley of shots into the air inside an Islamic university compound in the port city, 1,400 km (870 miles) east of Jakarta. Witnesses said the clashes erupted after some of the estimated 500 student protesters dragged a police officer inside the university compound. "The police got...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian appeals court has cleared militant leader Abu Bakar Bashir of treason and reduced his sentence from four years to three, court officials said Monday. The court upheld Bashir's conviction on lesser charges of forging identity documents. Bashir was convicted in September of treason in a plot to overthrow Indonesia's secular government but cleared of charges of being the leader of the al-Qaida linked Southeast Asia terror group Jemaah Islamiyah. The decision was widely criticized by foreign governments who maintain that Bashir is the spiritual head of the group, which has been blamed for...

<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia — The imprisoned Islamic cleric thought to be a guiding force behind the Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah warned that all Muslim countries with close ties to the United States were targets for attack.</p> <p>"As long as Muslim countries have close ties or support the U.S. government or U.S. policy, [they] will be threatened by a Muslim militant attack," said Abu Bakar Bashir, as he sat on the rough floor of the Salemba Prison, the Jakarta prison where he has been held for the past year.</p>

The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia Sept. 2 — A court on Tuesday acquitted a Muslim cleric accused of heading an al-Qaida-linked Asian terror group and plotting to overthrow the government, giving a surprise verdict in a case seen as a test of Indonesia's willingness to fight terror. The ruling was greeted by joyous cheers from hundreds of supporters of Abu Bakar Bashir, who was alleged to be the spiritual leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah, a terror network blamed for a string of bombings in Indonesia and the Philippines. "There is not enough evidence to prove that the defendant ... led...

Abu Bakar Bashir, the Indonesian Muslim cleric accused of leading the terrorist group blamed for the Bali bombings, broke down in tears yesterday and warned judges at his treason trial that they would "go to hell" if they convicted him.   Abu Bakar Bashir delivers his defence statement In scenes that stunned onlookers he told prosecutors to repent for assisting "the infidel enemies of Islam".In a defence statement brimming with defiance and devoid of any remorse for victims of bombings across Indonesia, he said his trial was stage-managed by the "terrorist state of America".He accused "hypocrite" states such as the...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A radical Islamic cleric accused of heading an al-Qaida-linked terror network in Asia wept in court Thursday as he accused the Indonesian government of framing him on charges of treason and plotting to assassinate its president. With tears in his eyes, Abu Bakar Bashir denied any wrongdoing and said authorities in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia had tortured witnesses to testify against him. The 64-year-old cleric Thursday was responding to a prosecution request that he be jailed for a maximum 15 years. Bashir is considered the spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiyah, which is blamed for a string...

THE elderly Islamic cleric accused of being terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiah's spiritual leader yesterday refused to condemn the Christmas Eve 2000 church bombings which killed 19. Abu Bakar Bashir, on trial in Jakarta for treason and the bombing of churches across Indonesia, told the court that under Islamic law, oppressed Muslims were obliged to fight back. Giving evidence for the first time, he said he would refuse to condemn the bombings until he had been appraised of all the facts. "Who did it and what are the reasons," he said, when asked about his reaction to the church bombings, widely...

Cambodian JI network smashed AFP Cambodia said today it had smashed a “radical” Islamic network and charged three men with membership of Jemaah Islamiyah, the group blamed for the Bali bombing and accused of links to al-Qaeda. Cambodian officials said another 50 people from the Middle East and Africa would be deported in a crackdown on terrorism after investigations revealed a local Islamic school was being used as a terrorist front. Authorities said most of the funding to run such schools here came from Saudi Arabia. Diplomats said the move was backed by the Americans who have grown increasingly concerned...

Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the regional terror network widely suspected of staging the October 12, Bali bombings and dozens of other blasts, dreams of creating a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia. It aims to destabilise the region through terror attacks and bring Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and the southern Philippines under a fundamentalist umbrella. Elderly Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, Jemaah Islamiyah's alleged leader or "emir", went on trial on Wednesday for treason. He is charged with trying to topple the Jakarta government through terrorism and set up an Islamic state. The same day Indonesian police announced they have arrested 17...

Abu Bakar Bashir accused of trying to set up Islamic state, overthrow Indonesian government but is not tied to Bali blasts JAKARTA - Indonesian prosecutors yesterday formally charged the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network's alleged spiritual leader with treason and three immigration violations - accusations that could mean life imprisonment. The 25-page indictment that prosecutors submitted to the Central District Court in Jakarta listed as part of cleric Abu Bakar Bashir's crimes, efforts to set up an Islamic state, and to overthrow the government in Indonesia. The charges were related to a bombing campaign against churches across the country during...

AFTER almost six months in detention, extremist Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has finally been formally charged with "conspiring to overthrow the Government" in an indictment that describes him as a leader of the terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah. In an indictment filed yesterday in Jakarta's Central District Court, Bashir is accused of involvement in bomb attacks and attempted bombings in the region. The indictment alleges Bashir conspired with Abdullah Sungkar, Hambali, Zulkarnaen, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas to commit treason – in particular, the bombing of Indonesian churches on Christmas Eve 2000, which killed 19 people. Hambali is Asia's most wanted...

A key suspect in the Bali bombings has said he was sworn in as a member of the Jemaah Islamiah regional terror network in the presence of Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, according to a report today. Ali Imron, 33, also told the Tempo weekly magazine in an interview that orders for some of the Christmas Eve bombings in 2000 came from a key JI operative called Hambali. Indonesian police and regional leaders say Bashir, who is detained on separate terrorism charges, is the spiritual leader of JI. They say they expect to charge him for the Bali bombings which...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian police said Monday they arrested the alleged head of a terrorist cell in Singapore who is suspected of plotting to hijack a plane and crash it into the Singapore airport. Mas Selamat Kastari is believed to be the head of the Singapore branch of the regional Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is accused of carrying out last year's bombings on the tourist island of Bali.He was arrested on Indonesia's Bintan island, a short ferry ride south of Singapore, on Sunday night, chief of national police detectives Lt. Gen. Erwin Mappaseng said."Kastari is the head...

Indonesian police said yesterday they have included testimony from witnesses in Singapore and Malaysia as evidence to be used in the trial of alleged terror group leader Abu Bakar Bashir. "We have done that and it is in the evidence files that have been submitted," national police chief General Da'i Bachtiar told reporters. Police have submitted the files to prosecutors and say they want Mr Bashir to face charges of treason and of staging a series of bomb attacks in Indonesia. Malaysia and Singapore says Mr Bashir is the spiritual leader of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). JI is...

Bashir's warning to Australians December 13 2002 By Stephen Gibbs, Matthew Moore Jakarta The man who Western governments say is the spiritual leader of the terrorist group accused of masterminding the Bali bombing says Australia will be "destroyed instantly" if it launches a pre-emptive strike against terrorist targets in other countries. Abu Bakar Bashir, the cleric accused of heading recently banned South-East Asian group Jemaah Islamiah, said Australians would be dragged into a war with Muslims if they went along with the "crazy idea" of a pre-emptive strike floated recently by Prime Minister John Howard. "So, if John Howard's stance...

Australian accused of plot to bomb embassies An Australian man charged after a series of counter-terrorism raids this month allegedly planned to bomb Israeli diplomatic buildings in Canberra and Sydney. The 49-year-old man, named as Jack Roche, was arrested in Perth late last night over an alleged plan to bomb diplomatic posts in Australia. The Australian Federal Police said he faced a charge of conspiracy to bomb diplomatic premises in Australia when he appears in the Perth Court of Petty Sessions this morning. AFP general manager national operations Ben McDevitt said his arrest was not connected to the Bali bombings....

BALI: Indonesian police said on Monday that their chief suspect in the Bali bomb blasts, a man who has confessed to involvement in the attack, was a student of detained Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. Major-General Made Mangku Pastika, head of the multinational police investigation into the Bali attacks, told a news conference on the resort island that Bashir was also a co-founder of the Jemaah Islamiah militant Muslim network in Malaysia. It was the first time that Indonesia had tied the 64-year-old cleric to Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian militant group that has been linked to Osama Bin Laden's...

KUALA LUMPUR, November 10 (IslamOnline) - The Muslim leader accused of terror links with the al-Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Abu Bakar Bashir risks deportation to Malaysia, Singapore or the U.S. if he is stripped of his Indonesian nationality, sources said Sunday, November 10. Singapore and Malaysia have in the past urged Indonesia to arrest Bashir for his alleged role in terror activities on their soil. Basyir is accused by Singapore of being the spiritual leader of the JI while Malaysia has him high on the terror list allegedly for connections with the Malaysian Mujahidin Movement (KMM). The U.S....

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/31/02 - Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Solo BREAKING: PROTALIBAN TERRORIST RELEASED BREAKING: ISLAMIC TERRORIST TAKEN BREAKING: BALI PERP SKETCHES RELEASED THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE UGLY Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Islamabad, Pakistan, Azam Tariq of the pro-Taliban Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan party released Solo, Java, Abu Bakar Bashir taken to Jakarta ========= Sulaymanyah, free Iraq ========= THE GOOD In Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK, women fight for their freedom. ========= Barda Qaraman ========= In Barda Qaraman, ~22 miles south of Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK are refugees who...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia officially listed the East Asian Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah as a "terrorist" organisation on Sunday under new counter-terrorism laws. The group, which as been linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, is widely believed by foreign governments of involvement in the bombing of Bali nightclubs on October 12 in which more than 180 people were killed, including about 90 Australians. Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams said individuals belonging to the militant group, or found training, funding or recruiting members, could face jail terms of up to 25 years. "Members of Jemaah Islamiah are now on notice...

HE was little known to the West a week ago. But Abu Bakar Bashir is now being dubbed the Osama bin Laden of South East Asia. The Islamic cleric with buck teeth, a wispy white beard and large tinted specs is the chief suspect in the Bali bomb massacre - the world's deadliest terrorist strike since September 11. Yesterday, hours after police announced he was being called in for questioning about the nightclub bombing, the Daily Mirror tracked Bashir down to a remote village on the Indonesian island of Java. He denied being involved in the bombing, and said: "Terrorism...

JAKARTA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Indonesian police are holding militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, a terror suspect, for at least 24 hours, a police official said on Saturday. Bashir had been scheduled for questioning in Jakarta on Saturday in relation to a bombing in 2000, but he was admitted to hospital on Friday in Solo and aides and doctors said he would be unable to travel on Saturday. Although Bashir is still in the hospital, National Police director general criminal Arianto Sutadi said, speaking by phone from Solo, said: "I captured him. Now he is under police custody."...

No sympathy for the dead, but Bashir denies any guilt October 18 2002 By Matthew Moore Indonesia Correspondent Jakarta If a lack of sympathy was a guide to guilt, then Indonesia's best-known radical Muslim would be rightly convicted of the Bali bombings. Abu Bakar Bashir is the elderly cleric Western intelligence has identified as the man most likely to have organised Saturday night's Kuta slaughter. While he firmly denies any involvement in the carnage, there's no sign from Bashir, the head of a Muslim boys' boarding school, of sympathy for those young Westerners, about the same age as his charges,...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/17/02 - Baghdad, Kuta, Abu Bashir, Modiin, Abu Akel, Wazzani diversion BREAKING: Baghdad - Saudis vote too BREAKING: Kuta, Denpasar despair and mourning BREAKING: Perp Abu Bakar Bashir, admits then projects BREAKING: Modiin, a Palestinian terrorist base built to look like Jerusalem's city BREAKING: Gaza, PA Hamas tension BREAKING: Givat Assaf BREAKING: Arafat and Abu Akel, US Presbyterian Church BREAKING: Wazzani river Hezbollah diversion project turned on ========= Baghdad ========= In Baghdad, Iraq, in a move which would delight US Democrats, on the day of the voting, members of a visiting Saudi...

A new diaspora of Al-Qaeda have taken refuge in South East Asia, working in small cells using political unrest as cover. While attention in Washington continues to be focused on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the war on terrorism is far from over and has entered a new phase. US intelligence officials say Al-Qaeda operatives who found refuge in Pakistan are regrouping and moving back into Afghanistan less than a year after a successful US military campaign forced them to flee their one-time sanctuary by the thousands. Officials say the movement back into Afghanistan is still relatively small and many who...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/15/02 - Denpasar, Bali, Bashir, Khost, Rafah, Egyptian tunnels, Yevul BREAKING: Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, vibrant lives dead, grief BREAKING: Khost, 35 trucks of weapons confiscated BREAKING: Rafah, Gaza Strip tunnels to Egypt closed BREAKING: Yevul - Attack from Egypt aborted Cianjur - Perp Abu Bakar Bashir, leader of the Jemaah Islamiah terrorists Arafat and the International Communist Organizations =========== Bali, Sanur beach =========== Sanur beach, Bali, in 1999. ========= Bali, Denpasar and Kuta, Indonesia ========= Immediately after the explosion In Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, SF and local heroes survey and inspect the site...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Indonesian court dismisses libel suit against Singapore over terrorist claims LELY T. DJUHARI; Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream May 16, 2002 Thursday 3:52 AM Eastern Time JAKARTA, Indonesia A judge on Thursday accused Singapore's government of "arrogance and cockiness," but ruled that it could not be sued by an Indonesian Muslim cleric who claimed it slandered him by dubbing him an international terrorist. "The world is being run by infidels," the aging cleric said. "If the infidels want to play, we will fight...