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Anti-Israeli Protestors Around the World Volunteer For Jihad
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief
April 10, 2002
Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - As Secretary of State Colin Powell pursues a
Mideast peace mission fraught with difficulties, anti-Israel and anti-U.S.
demonstrations in some Muslim countries are becoming increasingly heated.
Protests, often characterized by clashes with police, have become daily occurrences
in some Middle Eastern and Asian cities, and there are reports that volunteers are
signing up to fight alongside the Palestinians against Israel.
Some demonstrators are invoking the name of Osama bin Laden, the Arab accused
of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. The Saudi-born terrorist remains a
fugitive following the U.S. war against his network and its sponsors in Afghanistan.
"Beloved bin Laden, strike Tel Aviv!" chanted Palestinians during a demonstration in
the Jordanian capital, Amman, while many among a large crowd of protestors in the
Sudanese capital, Khartoum, urged the al Qaeda leader to "Strike Back!" at Israel.
The Sudanese demonstrators also yelled "Down with USA!" and expressed support
for a boycott of American products because of Washington's support for Israel.
In Egypt too, Powell's visit en route to Israel drew protests in Alexandria and Cairo
by
students angry about the U.S. handling of the crisis.
Many of the protests across the Muslim world have turned violent, especially where
demonstrators have tried to force their way closer to U.S. or United Nations
missions.
Several protestors have been reported killed in clashes with police, including one in
the southern Yemeni port of Aden. In Alexandria, Egypt, police shot a student in the
chest. The 11- year-old boy died Sunday of an injury suffered during a protest in
Jordan two days earlier.
Some protests have drawn support from senior leaders. Jordan's Queen Rania --
who is a Palestinian -- led an anti-Israeli march in Amman, and her husband, King
Abdullah, said he was ready to do the same.
Jordanian government ministers have also participated in a demonstration calling for
Amman to cut diplomatic ties with Israel and support an oil boycott, while in Lebanon
and elsewhere, protests have been supported by lawmakers and religious leaders.
Jihad volunteers
In Indonesia and Sudan, both of which have seen large and angry demonstrations,
militants have started registering young men who say they want to fight for the
Palestinian cause.
Thousands of Indonesian Muslims have signed up for a jihad ("holy war") to fight
alongside the Palestinians against Israel.
Two radical groups, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Laskar Jihad, claim they
have signed up thousands of volunteers for an "Al-Aqsa Liberation Committee." Al-
Aqsa is the name of Islam's third holiest mosque, located on the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem's Old City.
The FPI is known for its sometimes violent crackdowns on Jakarta entertainment
spots, which the group views as immoral.
Late last year it claimed to be recruiting fighters from the world's most populous
Muslim country to fight against U.S.-led forces battling bin Laden's al Qaeda and the
Taliban militia in Afghanistan.
Few Indonesians are believed to have actually reached the conflict zone. The FPI
claimed Pakistani authorities had stopped 1,000 Indonesians from crossing into
Afghanistan.
Now the radical groups want the Indonesian government to provide weapons and
training for the volunteers. Laskar Jihad already has experience in conflict: It has
been implicated in much of the anti- Christian violence in recent years in the
provinces of Maluku and Central Sulawesi.
But Vice President Hamzah Haz, while promising to send funds, medicine and
medical teams to the Palestinian Authority and to be firmer in its criticism of Israel,
discouraged Indonesians from volunteering to fight in the Middle East.
The FPI and Laskar Jihad said they were instead approaching Arab embassies for
funding to send the volunteers. The Palestinian envoy to Indonesia, Ribhi Awad, has
meanwhile urged Arab countries neighboring Israel to open their territory to
Indonesians wanting to fight alongside Palestinians.
Extremists in Sudan are finding it less of a struggle to get government support for a
"jihad" against Israel.
Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir himself has given orders for his army to
call up volunteers to report to camps for training ahead of joining the Palestinians.
"All parties, institutions, trade unions, students and youths, men and women" have
been invited to volunteer, the Popular Defense Forces said in a statement broadcast
on official radio and TV.
The camps would train Sudanese fighters "for the Palestinian cause and for freeing
the al-Aqsa mosque from Zionist filth," it said.
Muslim scholars in Sudan have urged Islamic governments to isolate Israel and the
U.S. diplomatically and economically.
In recent days Iraq has announced it is halting all oil exports for a month, and Iran
added that it was ready to follow suit if other Arab nations agreed to do so. Libya is
supportive of the idea, Saudi Arabia is not.
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