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--------- Indonesian terror groups have intercepted tsunami donations, expert says SINGAPORE (AP): Islamic militants in Indonesia are taking advantage of the devastation caused by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami by stealing relief funds and extending their networks, an expert on terrorism said on Friday. The disaster "gave unprecedented opportunities for these groups to expand their areas of influence," said Rohan Gunaratna, a terrorism researcher at Singapore's Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies. "Charities are a primary source of income for these groups," Gunaratna said in Singapore at a conference on fighting terrorism funding. "That's why there needs to be more accountability in where the donations go." The area worst affected by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami was Aceh province in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. More than 130,000 were killed and entire villages were demolished in the province. Gunaratna said the radical Islamic groups Mujahidin Kompak and Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia, or MMI, were moving into Aceh, taking advantage of the chaos and destruction caused by the quake and tsunami. Gunaratna said the groups had intercepted reconstruction funding through links with charities. He did not give further details on how much the radical groups were alleged to have taken, or offer any evidence. The MMI was founded by militant cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, who is serving a 30-month jail sentence for conspiracy in the bombings that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists, on the Indonesian island of Bali. The Brussels-based International Crisis Group has said Mujahidin Kompak plans to wage religious war in Indonesia. Indonesian authorities have arrested scores of al-Qaeda-linked militants suspected of being involved in the Bali bombings, in last year's attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta or in the 2003 attack on the city's J.W. Marriott Hotel. But some critics still accuse the country of being soft on terrorists. "Indonesia must suffer more from terrorism in order for the people and their leaders to realize that terror is serious business and you can't flirt with terrorists," said Gunaratna, author of the book Inside al-Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. (**) Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
