http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/19/content_3803197.htm
Thousands of militants with foreign experience hide in Indonesia: report
www.chinaview.cn 2005-11-19 10:33:37
JAKARTA, Nov. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Thousands of Indonesians with
experience as Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Southern Philippines, Sri Lanka
and Libya are believed to be residing in big cities in Java and West Sumatra
although it is not known whether they were also part of the terrorist network
led by the Malaysian terrorist duo Dr Azahari and Noordin M. Top.
The statement was made by two Indonesian intelligence agents in
Singapore and Jakarta on Friday following a statement by Din Syamsuddin,
chairman of Indonesia's second biggest Moslem mass organization, Muhammadiyah,
that some 3,000 former militant fighters from Afghanistan had been recruited
since 1980 to wage holy war in the African continent.
The two intelligence officers who refused to be identified said the
number of Indonesian Moslem volunteers who took part in such wars in several
countries had reached 5,000, Antara news agency reported on Saturday.
They were now believed to be living in several cities in West,
Central and East Java and West Sumatra and even to have infiltrated a political
party, the officers was quoted as saying.
Most of them have taken part in holy war in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka
and Libya but there were no exact data on their number in East Java, they
added.
Meanwhile, East Java Police had intensified their operations to
dismantle a terrorist group led by Noordin M. Top following the recent raid in
Batu, Malang, East Java that killed one of their top figures, Dr Azahari.
Both Noordin and the late Azahari are believed to be behind the
series of terror bombings in Indonesia over the past few years. Enditem
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