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Over a hundred members of the recently banned Millata Abraham Muslim sect on Friday underwent a mass conversion to mainstream faith at the Baiturrahman Raya Mosque in Banda Aceh. The sect’s leader, Zainuddin, said the idea to convert came to him in a dream on April 19 that he had while locked away in a jail cell. He is facing a five-year sentence for blasphemy stemming from his practice of the banned religion. The mass conversion comes in the wake of pronounced relgious hostility in the province. On April 6, Irwandi issued a gubernatorial decree banning the Millata Abraham, along...

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...

Indonesian police have reportedly captured the nation's most wanted terrorist suspect in a raid in central java. Earlier reports that Abdullah Sunata was killed in the raid have proved unfounded. Abdullah Sunata is suspected of being a key member of the cell discovered in Aceh earlier this year. He was a veteran of religious conflict in Ambon and Sulawesi and a senior member of the network headed by the late Noordin Mohammad Top. He was previously jailed over his role in the bombing of the Australian Embassy in 2004. And he was arrested along with another man, who'd also been...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who is due to visit Indonesia in June, was one of several suspected targets of Indonesian militants captured in police raids recently, an expert on militants said on Friday.

SNIPPET: "This past Sunday, six terrorists were captured in Medan, North Sumatra province, by Indonesia's counter-terrorist unit, Special Detachment 88. All were thought to be linked to a paramilitary camp in Aceh that was raided in February and two of them, Pandu Wicaksono Widyan Putro and Bayu Sena, were said to be tied to the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta last July." SNIPPET: "Special Detachment 88 will likely continue its raids in and around Aceh to round up those camp members that have thus far evaded the police dragnet."

Three Indonesian men convicted of playing dominoes for money escaped before a public caning in devoutly Muslim Aceh province. Local Islamic police chief Muhammad Rusli said they bolted during an unguarded bathroom visit minutes before the punishment for violating anti-gambling laws. The fugitives were caught playing dominoes for 1,000 rupiah (10 US cents) per game. They were to receive six strokes of the cane each outside a mosque.

Tsunami siren stirs anger in Aceh An earlier alert had sent thousands fleeing in panic Residents near the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province have disabled a tsunami warning system. The residents cut the power to the siren on a tsunami warning tower by throwing rocks at it. They were angered by a false alarm that sent thousands of people in the capital and a nearby area rushing from their homes to higher ground on Monday. Many people in Aceh are still traumatised by the 2004 tsunami in which thousands were killed. A false alarm on Monday morning in the Kaju...

An hour before dusk and the newest law enforcers in the Indonesian province of Aceh - its Sharia police - are getting ready for the evening patrol. They line up on the back of the pick-up truck, women on one side, men on the other, wearing uniform baseball caps and clutching walkie-talkies. Aceh is the only Indonesian province allowed to apply Sharia, or Islamic, law. But with the province preparing for its first election since last year's peace deal ended years of separatist violence, the Sharia police's role has become increasingly controversial. As the truck moves through the early evening...

ACROSS Indonesia's most religious of provinces, the sight of brown uniformed policemen has come to signify one thing. The brutal enforcement of Sharia law which is raising fears about the future of the world's most populous Muslim country. They haul unmarried couples into precincts and arrest people for drinking or gambling. Increasingly, many of the cases are pushed to the ultimate conclusion, public canings at mosques in front of excited crowds. In mid-July, a 27-year-old man sentenced to 40 lashes fainted on the seventh stroke of a rattan cane from a hooded man in the yard of a mosque here...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Across this most religious of Indonesia’s provinces, brown uniformed policemen in black wagons enforce Shariah, or Islamic law. They haul unmarried couples into precincts and arrest people for drinking or gambling. Increasingly, many of the cases are pushed to the ultimate conclusion, public canings at mosques in front of pumped-up crowds. In mid-July, a 27-year-old man sentenced to 40 lashes fainted on the seventh stroke of a rattan cane from a hooded man in the yard of a mosque here in the provincial capital. The caning was televised nationally, with an announcer reporting that the man,...

August 01, 2006, 2:16 p.m. Everybody's Business By William F. Buckley Jr. The old injunction about minding your own business has always been a little problematic, because carried to formal lengths it distresses other laws, laws that have to do with being one's brother's keeper. From large-scale national perspectives, there are the laws that translate into maintaining balances of power. You can try to ignore it when you hear that Hitler has ultimate solutions about how to deal with Germany's Jews, but meanwhile it makes sense to maintain your fleet in good condition, never mind if regulating German Jews is other people's business.Itchy...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia. Across this most religious of Indonesia's provinces, brown-uniformed policemen in black wagons enforce Shariah, or Islamic law: They haul unmarried couples into precincts and arrest people for drinking or gambling. Increasingly, many of the cases are pushed to public canings at mosques in front of pumped-up crowds. On Friday, a man and a woman were caned with a rattan rod before a raucous crowd in the yard of the mosque in Samadua, a town in the southern part of the province of Aceh, after being arrested in a kiosk for being together and alone, although they were...

THE last batch of combat soldiers in Aceh assembled on the dockside yesterday in full kit and armed to the teeth, ready to embark on their troopships as the final act of a bloody 29-year guerrilla war. Supaidin Adi Saputra, Aceh’s military commander, told them they should be proud of fighting to keep Indonesia intact — then told the watching Acehnese: “The flame of peace is burning and we must not let anyone extinguish it.” The head of the feared Indonesian military in Aceh was doing what was almost unthink-able only a year ago; telling its people that the war,...

The indiscriminate, awesome power of the Indian Ocean tsunami did not just annihilate communities, it fundamentally altered the destinies of two bloody, decades-long conflicts. In Aceh, the Indonesian province worst affected by the devastating waves, the apocalyptic aftermath has become a catalyst for peace between the Government and separatists. It seems both parties innately understood that the fighting had to stop if this land was to get the aid required for the huge rebuilding task. Jakarta started the final phase of a troop reduction in Aceh today, a key step in a peace agreement with separatist rebels that was propelled...

PEACE ACCORD: The move was part of an agreement that ends Asia's longest-running separatist insurgency, and sets the stage for the guerillas to run in elections Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disbanded their armed wing yesterday, fulfilling a crucial part of a tsunami-inspired peace accord to end one of Asia's longest separatist conflicts and paving the way for the guerillas to enter politics. "The Acehnese national army, or the armed wing of the Free Aceh Movement, has demobilized and disbanded," Sofyan Daud, one of the group's commanders, told reporters. "The Aceh national army is now part of civil society, and will...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia -- The morality enforcers, a squad of men clad in green trousers and white shirts and women in white head scarves, stride on to this provincial capital's tsunami-scarred beach to weed out sin. After descending from a pickup truck, the enforcers -- patterned after the religious police of Saudi Arabia -- check identity cards of a couple who had been munching corn on the cob while staring at the sea. The man and woman, obviously sweethearts, are given a stern warning and told to go their separate ways.

Religious extremists are using last year’s storm to oppress the survivors MARLUDDIN JALIL, a Sharia judge who has ordered the punishment of women for not wearing headscarves, was uncompromising: “The tsunami was because of the sins of the people of Aceh.” Thundering into a microphone at a gathering of wives, he made clear where he felt the fault lay: “The Holy Koran says that if women are good, then a country is good.” A year after the disaster which many see as a divine punishment, emboldened Islamic hardliners are doing their best to eradicate sin — and women are their...

SIX assault rifles were cut into small pieces in a hot Acehnese parade ground yesterday, the last weapons to be officially decommissioned in the drawn-out journey to peace in the beleaguered province. Young rebel fighters dressed in navy and black fatigues marched in with the weapons during a ceremony observed by Indonesian generals and leaders of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). Enemies for 30 years, the generals and the rebel leaders sat together in Blang Padang field in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, to observe the symbolic end to a war that lasted three decades and killed thousands. "This is...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia : The image of the United States in tsunami-hit parts of Asia may have enjoyed a boost thanks to its massive aid donations, but one year on, residents say US policy speaks louder than dollars. The US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with Washington's pro-Israeli stance, have incensed Muslims across the region, and no amount of aid -- even in tsunami-ravaged Indonesia -- has soothed their anger. "I don't like the leader of the American people. I don't mind the people, I just don't like their leader," says Yan, a 35-year-old Acehnese dried fish trader who...

Outbreak of Bird Flu Detected in Indonesia Thu Nov 24, 2:56 AM ET Indonesia has detected the first outbreak of bird flu in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province where hundreds of chickens have died from the disease, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday. Bird flu has now been found in 23 of Indonesia's 30 provinces, said Sjamsul Bahri, the Agriculture Ministry's director of animal health. The deadly H5N1 strain has jumped from birds to humans, killing seven people in Indonesia. But the emergence of the virus in Aceh — where tens of thousands of people still live in crowded refugee camps following the...

ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK, Thailand -- A security adviser to the prime minister said Thursday that Indonesian fighters are involved in Thailand's Muslim insurgency, contradicting government insistence the bloody separatist movement is a homegrown affair unconnected to Southeast Asia's al-Qaida-linked terror network. "I have warned the authorities concerned several times about Indonesian fighters sneaking into the region but they have ignored it," Gen. Kitti Rattanachaya told The Associated Press, saying the militants infiltrated from the Indonesian province of Aceh. His assertion comes amid rumors of Indonesian Muslims joining the fight in Thailand's southernmost provinces. No substantial evidence has emerged to back...

The Indonesian Government and rebels from the province of Aceh signed a peace treaty this morning in Helsinki that could bring to an end South East Asia's longest running war. The signing of the treaty this morning, in which the separatist rebels known as the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM, renounced their claim for full independence in return for an amnesty and participation in Indonesian politics, came after seven months of negotiations. More than 10,000 people are believed to have died in Aceh's war of independence against the Indonesian Government over the last 30 years. More than 4,000 people, including...

The two sides acknowledged there was still a lot to be done The Indonesian government and rebels from the Free Aceh Movement (Gam) have signed a peace deal aimed at ending their near 30 year conflict. Representatives from each side signed the official document in Helsinki. "This is the beginning of a new era for Aceh," said former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who mediated the talks. "Much hard work lies ahead." Efforts to end the conflict resumed after the huge tsunami last December, which destroyed vast swathes of Aceh. In the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, big screens were set up...

LAMBADA LHOKE, Indonesia - When the people of this fishing village rebuild their homes on their old foundations, they will live among a checkerboard of empty lots left by those who died in the tsunami six months ago Sunday. "They will be blank," said Charul Amri, the village chief, describing the square patches of rubble or tile flooring that are all that remains of the fishermen's houses here on the coast of Aceh. Eventually, he said, those plots will be claimed or bought, new neighbors will take the place of those who are gone, and Lambada Lhoke - where just...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) - Government troops shot dead a local rebel chief in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh region as peace talks between the government and separatists continued in Finland, a report said. Miswar alias Siwai, a local commander for the Free Aceh Movement in southwest Aceh's Blang Pidie area, was shot dead along with one of his men in a clash on Tuesday, the province's Serambi newspaper reported. It quoted the head of the South Aceh military command, Lieutenant Colonel Jamhur Ismail, as saying 19 soldiers were on a mission in the area when they encountered about seven men carrying...

Christian groups and some other private relief agencies are being asked to halt their work in the tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh and leave the area by March 26, Indonesia's defense minister said yesterday. The decision likely will target Western and smaller church groups as the government moves to tighten control over reconstruction work in Aceh, the home of a decades-old separatist insurgency. "We want each of the relief agencies to be transparent in their programs: Some of them are not clear about their mandates," said Juwono Sudarsono during an interview in a Washington hotel.

Scientist foresaw Sumatran quake Research showed area was ripe for temblor By Kimm Groshong , Staff WriterArticle Published: Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 8:25:08 PM PST PASADENA -- When the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resultant tsunami devastated Sumatra and much of the Bay of Bengal on Dec. 26, Kerry Sieh's premonition became a nightmarish reality. The Caltech geology professor had studied the history of giant earthquakes just south of the epicenter for about a decade and knew full well the damage such a major quake in that part of the world could inflict. He had tried to get the word out...

Claims, counter-claims threaten fragile post-tsunami truce. JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s military on Saturday claimed it had killed 30 separatist rebels in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province in the space of a week, threatening a fragile truce agreed on after the Dec. 26 natural disaster. A rebel spokesman alleged most of the 30 were unarmed villagers caught up in army sweeps. A top commander, meanwhile, reportedly accused the rebels of lying during ongoing peace talks. The flurry of claims indicate the post-tsunami informal cease-fire is not sticking and underline the obstacles to a lasting peace in the region, which has been wracked by...

HELSINKI : The Indonesian government and Aceh separatists wrapped up peace talks, setting a date for new talks and reporting major progress, but no breakthrough, on an offer of special autonomy for the tsunami-wrecked province. A new round of negotiations was set for April, the third since the Indian Ocean tsunamis that devastated Aceh made the need for a settlement more pressing. Indonesian communications minister and delegation member Sofyan Djalil, speaking after the Helsinki meeting concluded, said the rebels initially had rejected outright a government offer of special autonomy. But as the talks progressed their position "changed dramatically", he told...

The world's biggest grouping of Muslim countries has pledged $145 million for Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province, to be spent largely on children orphaned by the 26 December disaster, says a report. The money will finance various projects over a four to five-year period, chair of the Organisation of Islamic Conference, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, was quoted as saying on Sunday by the New Straits Times. The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), along with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), has already identified five projects to fund, including a home for orphans in Aceh. Work to build the shelter will...

Islamic extremists could be planning to attack foreign aid workers in Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh province, Australia’s foreign minister warned today. “New information (has been) received by the government concerning possible terrorist planning for attacks against foreigners involved in relief efforts in Aceh or other areas of northern Sumatra,” Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said in a statement in Canberra. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade today revised its travel advice for Indonesia, warning that Australians could endanger themselves by travelling to northern Sumatra island, where Aceh is located. “We’ve now found that some of the Islamic extremists are talking...

The Australian Government has announced it has received intelligence that terrorists could be planning attacks against foreign relief workers in Aceh and North Sumatra. The unprecedented warning comes in a new travel advisory issued by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and covering Indonesia. It says the Government has new information suggesting that terrorists may be planning attacks against foreigners involved in the tsunami relief effort in Aceh and other parts of northern Sumatra. Scores of Australian civilians and hundreds of Australian military personnel are in the region. The soldiers are unarmed, with security left to Indonesian forces. The advice...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A powerful Saudi charity under scrutiny for alleged terrorist financing is expanding operations in tsunami-ravaged areas of Indonesia, importing a hard-line religious message that the West fears could spread extremist Islam in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The presence of the International Islamic Relief Organization could complicate relief efforts in Indonesia, which is desperate for help but also under pressure to contain Islamic militants. Attacks have included nightclub bombings in 2002 that killed 202 people. It also offers a high-profile test of Saudi promises to closely monitor its major aid societies. Many have faced probes...

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Indonesian government and rebel leaders from tsunami-devastated Aceh province broke off peace talks here Saturday after failing to reach a cease-fire in their 30-year conflict. Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari urged both sides to quickly resume negotiations. The government and Free Aceh Movement had agreed to the talks in the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami catastrophe. Aceh bore the brunt of the disaster, which killed from 145,000 to 178,000 people in 11 countries. In the days after the tsunami, both sides pledged to freeze military operations to focus on helping victims. But the informal truce...

Why is God angry? Acehnese speak up Saturday, January 22, 2005 The Jakarta Post, Banda AcehThe devastating earthquake and tsunamis that killed over 166,000 people and displaced another half a million in Aceh have not shaken the faith of the people, who are known for their strong devotion to Islam.Most do not ask why God picked Aceh upon which to unleash His wrath. They agree that God the omnipotent was angry, but they lay the blame elsewhere -- some on themselves. Nearly four weeks after the catastrophe, most Acehnese have had plenty of time to contemplate and reflect on...

Warning to Christians on a mission to save souls By Sebastien Berger January 23, 2005 The Sun-Herald For the love of Allah: A woman hugs her child after Eid al-Adha (festival of sacrifice) prayers in the town of Meulaboh, in tsunami-hit Aceh province of Indonesia For the devout Muslims of Aceh the disaster that has befallen them is a warning from Allah. For some Christians it is a God-given opportunity to convert the heathen. Mainstream aid groups, even the openly Christian ones, make clear that they have no proselytising mission. Any evangelism is likely to lead to expulsion by the...

Soon after the tsunamis struck South and South-East Asia in December 2004, a Bengali newspaper published from New York prominently carried a report on how Bangladesh escaped the disaster. The report, by Bangladeshi geologists, concluded that the shallow continental shelf of the Bangladesh mainland acted as a kind of buffer. A few days later, an angry reader left this message on the editor's answering machine: "How, could you, a Muslim, publish such a report? It was Almighty Allah who saved Bangladesh." The proposition that God saved Bangladesh from the destructions of the tsunamis is of course a matter of faith,...

ACEH BESAR, Indonesia - U.N. security officials on Monday suspended relief travel in parts of Indonesia's Aceh province and declared a state of "heightened awareness" pending investigation of a terror warning issued by Danish officials. U.N. staff were banned from traveling between Banda Aceh and Medan because of reported fighting between Indonesian military and separatist rebels in the tsunami-battered area. Mans Nyberg, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said the ban would be effective from Monday night until Tuesday morning between the two cities. It takes about 12 hours to drive the 280-mile stretch of road.

COPENHAGEN, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Denmark warned on Monday of imminent terror attacks against international rescue workers in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, the area hardest hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami. The Danish Foreign Ministry said it had "received information that imminent terror attacks are being planned against foreign rescue workers" in Aceh. It did not elaborate on the nature of the threat or the origin of the information. Religious fundamentalists in staunchly Muslim Aceh, who want independence for their natural gas rich province, have expressed anger over what they say is proselytising by Christian aid groups involved in...

Tsunami orphans getting recruited by Terror Organizations and relief aids not reaching those who need the same in Sri Lanka and Acheh UNICEF reported a very disturbing information. According to a report, UNICEF complained that Tamil Tigers are recruiting innocent orphaned children, victims of tsunami, into the terror camps. Similar reports are coming from Sumatra. In Acheh and other parts of Indonesia, the terrorists and the human traffickers are also targeting the children. The Indonesian Government today asked all foreign military personnel leave no later than March, 2005. In Sri Lanka, there are some major problems. Tamil Tigers control the...

Government, Islamic fundamentalists and Aceh separatists are worried about the presence of foreign mitary and humanitarian organisations.Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Budi Atmaji, chief of operations for Aceh’s disaster relief, announced today that journalists and aid workers in the hard-hit province will be expelled if they do not inform the authorities of their movements outside its capital of Banda Aceh. The measure was seemingly taken for security reasons in view of possible attacks against foreigners by separatist rebels belonging to the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or GAM), which has been waging a war of independence in the region since 1976....

Tsunami, The Town Left Without Women By Richard Lloyd Parry in Indonesia A community of 6,000 woke up to find the tsunami had swept away its womenfolk WHEN the survivors of Lampuuk had picked themselves up out of the mud of the tsunami, several appalling facts became clear. The first was that their town no longer existed. The second was that four out of five of its former inhabitants were dead. But it took a while to realise the strangest thing of all: that among those who made it to higher ground, or who kept their heads above the surging...

Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 11 January 2005 2025 hrs Thousands of Acehnese flee to Medan, concerns mount of overcrowding By Channel NewsAsia's Sujadi Siswo in Medan MEDAN : The North Sumatran capital of Medan has once again become the city of refuge for thousands of fleeing Acehnese. For the past 30 years, villagers fleeing the political conflict in Aceh have fled to Medan. It is no different now, since the tsunami struck. When the tsunami struck, Madam Rosme and husband took refuge in the Banda Aceh central mosque. Their first plan was to fly to Medan, where...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Terrorist aid slammedPublished January 11, 2005 From combined dispatches     JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Separatist rebels from the tsunami-struck province of Aceh yesterday deplored the presence of two Muslim terrorist groups helping survivors, saying they were using aid to push a religious agenda.     The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) said in a statement from its government in exile in Stockholm that the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the Indonesian Mujahideen Council (MMI), which incudes Laskar Mujahidin, "would squander scarce resources."     The statement branded the two groups as "criminal organizations" and said they were not welcome in Aceh.     "The...

Radical Muslims yesterday vowed to protect Australians and other aid workers helping tsunami victims in Aceh, angrily denying they opposed the foreign presence in the devastated Indonesian province. "If you have come to help people in this disaster, we welcome you and will defend you," said Hilmy Bakar Almascaty, the leader in Aceh of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a group known for smashing up bars and violent support of the jailed cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. Dr Almascaty told the Herald at his tent headquarters in Banda Aceh that foreigners who had come to help the Acehnese were "angels", unlike...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) - An Indonesian woman who was plucked from the sea after clinging to a palm tree for five days in the wake of a devastating tsunami heard Wednesday that she is 18 weeks pregnant with her first child. "I'm very glad, very happy," 25-year-old Malawati said from her hospital bed in the northern Malaysian island of Penang after doctors gave her the news following medical checks. The farmer from Indonesia's Aceh province, which was among the worst hit by the Dec. 26 disaster, said she could not wait to share the news with her husband of...

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A MOBILE Australian military hospital has arrived in a tsunami-ravaged area of Indonesia as an airport bottleneck holds up the delivery of some aid in the region. The 55-bed mobile hospital will begin operations in Sumatra island's Banda Aceh within 24 hours and be staffed by 60 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel. Lieutenant Colonel Brad McCall said the staff would include experts in surgery, and public and environmental health. "That involves both acute medical care, acute clinical care and surgery," he told the ABC. "It also involves a very big focus on public health and prevention including vaccination programs, water...

SEPARATISTS LAMLHOM, Indonesia, Jan. 7 - In the shade of a stand of coconut trees, Basri Ahmad buried his 19-year-old son on Friday, a victim not of earthquake or ocean waves but of the civil conflict that sowed death in Aceh long before the recent devastation. "This is a misunderstanding," Mr. Basri said of the death of his son, Andriansyah, one of seven men killed Thursday by soldiers. "I plan to ask the army for clarification." But while the military commander of Aceh Province, Brig. Gen. Endang Suwarya, said he would investigate, he also had a ready answer for the...

Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer reports further on two separate Islamist terror organizations moving into the tsunami ravaged Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. Both groups are related to Indonesian cleric and terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir, the leader of al Qaeda affiliate Jemaah Islamiyah, and mastermind behind the terrorist attacks in Bali and the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. The first group of Islamist “humanitarians” is the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). Not only do they smash up bars and discos, they really care. Note how military training takes precedence over relief efforts, and that Indonesia has facilitated the movement of this group to...