Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Jemaah Islamiyah


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 21 Dec 09)

  
  Jemaah Islamiyah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jemaah Islamiyah, sometimes rendered Jemaah Islamiah, is a militant Islamic terrorist organization dedicated to the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy in Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and the south of Thailand and the Philippines.
Jemaah Islamiyah is thought to have killed hundreds of civilians and is suspected of having executed the Bali car bombing on October 12, 2002 in which suicide bombers killed 202 people, mostly Australian tourists, and wounded many in a nightclub.
Jemaah Islamiyah is also suspected of carrying out the Zamboanga bombings, the Metro Manila bombings, the 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing and the 2005 Bali terrorist bombing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jemaah_Islamiyah   (1352 words)

  
 Jemaah Islamiyah: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jemaah Islamiyah are suspected of having executed the Bali car bombing[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] on October 12, EHandler: no quick summary.
Abdullah sungkar (1937 - november, 1999), was an indonesian muslim cleric co-founder and leader of jemaah islamiyah (ji), a militant islamic...
The konsojaya trading company was a shell company cofounded by jemaah islamiyah leader riduan isamuddin, better known as "hambali", and his chinese malaysian...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jemaah_islamiyah.htm   (3301 words)

  
 Singapore cracks down on Jemaah Islamiyah group
Jemaah Islamiya, headed by radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is not only linked with previous attacks and attempted attacks, but is believed to have extensive logistical and financial links with al-Qaida.
Jemaah Islamiyah was reportedly behind a plot to bomb the American, Australian and Israeli Embassies in Singapore last year.
Jemaah Islamiyah has also been linked to 30 carefully coordinated church bombings in Indonesian cities that killed 22 people and wounded 96 on Dec. 30, 2000.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=827   (640 words)

  
 Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
The name Jemaah Islamiyah dates to the late 1970s, but experts aren’t certain if the name referred to a formal organization or an informal gathering of like-minded Muslim radicals—or a government label for Islamist malcontents.
Singapore Jemaah Islamiyah members have identified Abu Bakar Baasyir and Abu Jibril as among those responsible for the establishment and operation of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiyah.
Six of the 13 Jemaah Islamiyah members being held in Singapore had links with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, while the two who were arrested and then released had visited Moro Islamic Liberation Front camps in the past.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/ji.htm   (1360 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Jemaah Islamiyah fails to regroup, carry out attacks in Southeast Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Jemaah Islamiyah terror group has tried to organize new terror attacks in Southeast Asia in the last year, but failed because it didn't have enough money, support from other militant groups, or "thinkers and planners among its ranks," officials said.
Remnants of Jemaah Islamiyah have made several unsuccessful attempts to regroup in Indonesia so they could launch more strikes, he said on condition of anonymity.
That official said the crackdown on Jemaah Islamiyah cells in the region had also left the group without funds to mount attacks.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-07-24-malaysia-terror_x.htm   (612 words)

  
 Series of EmergencyNet News Reports Concerning Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) extremist organization in S. E. Asia
The suspect, identified as Mohammad Kiram, was arrested in the predominantly Muslim city of Marawi, the latest of five suspected members of Jemaah Islamiyah to be arrested in the Philippines.
The "Jemaah Islamiyah" (JI or Islamic Group) cells were first noticed in 1997 surveillance operations by Singapore authorities, but evidence suggests the terrorists may have been operating in 1993, when cell leader Maidin Maidin traveled to terrorist camps in Afghanistan for military training.
The government has said the suspected militants belonged to a group called Jemaah Islamiyah, which it said was part of a larger network with cells in Malaysia and Indonesia.
www.emergency.com /2002/jamaah_islamiyah.htm   (2223 words)

  
 Tyler Morning Telegraph - INMATES: CHURCH BOMBINGS, BALI WERE INSPIRED BY BIN LADEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But comments by the suspects were denied by the accused leader of Jemaah Islamiyah and drew fire from human rights groups that warned the confessions may have been coerced.
Jemaah Islamiyah is thought to have been behind Christmas Eve church bombings in nine Indonesian cities in 2000 that killed 19 people, the nightclub blasts on the resort island of Bali and an August 2003 car bomb at a Jakarta hotel that killed 12 people.
The Jemaah Islamiyah leader known as Hambali, who is now in U.S. custody, was thought "to be in communication with Osama bin Laden," Nasir said.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1994&dept_id=339133&newsid=11235430&PAG=461&rfi=9   (649 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Indonesian militant with close al-Qaeda links now leads Jemaah Islamiyah
Abu Dujana's rise to power within Jemaah Islamiyah is an indication the group's organizational structure remains intact, and highlights the challenges that remain for police fighting terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Jemaah Islamiyah is blamed for a series of bloody bombings and failed plots in Southeast Asia in recent years, including two strikes on Indonesia's resort island of Bali that killed more than 220 people, most of them foreign tourists.
The leading international expert on Jemaah Islamiyah, Sidney Jones, confirmed that Dujana had long been a key figure in the organization, although she said it's too early to say whether he's heading the group.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20060322-1313-indonesia-militantleader.html   (559 words)

  
 USPACOM Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The city is a common entry point for Jemaah Islamiyah operatives coming from Malaysia and Indonesia, according to the International Crisis Group, which is based in Brussels.
Delfin said the manuals seized with the suspects included video discs that were the same as those used by Jemaah Islamiyah in its training camps on Mindanao, the main island in the south that is home to most of the country's Muslims.
The relationship among Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Sayyaf and the domestic Islamic terror groups "will be sustained over a long period of time," said Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on terrorism with the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore and the author of a book on Al Qaeda.
www.pacom.mil /articles/articles2005/050224story1.shtml   (528 words)

  
 It's Happening Global Discussion Forum - Jemaah Islamiyah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The number of Jemaah Islamiyah recruits who have gone through the recent training might be considered relatively small — perhaps not more than 50, one intelligence official said — but officials point out that a terrorist attack does not require a great number of men.
Jemaah Islamiyah, which was founded in the early 1970's and has been declared a terrorist organization by the United States State Department, seeks the establishment of an Islamic state across an arc of Southeast Asia.
The statement is the latest indication that Jemaah Islamiyah, which is accused of carrying out last year's devastating nightclub bombings on the island of Bali, was also behind Tuesday's blast, which killed 10 people and injured almost 150.
www.itshappening.com /printthread.php?t=10099   (6649 words)

  
 Jemaah Islamiyah the 'al-Qaeda of SE Asia': Downer - smh.com.au
Jemaah Islamiyah the 'al-Qaeda of SE Asia': Downer - smh.com.au
Jemaah Islamiyah, the organisation which may be responsible for bomb blasts in Bali that killed 183 people, was the al-Qaeda of South-East Asia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
"Jemaah Islamiyah people have been to training camps in Afghanistan, there are financial links, there are probably links in terms of arms as well," Mr Downer said.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/15/1034561147131.html   (402 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
While Jemaah Islamiyah did not exist as a violently brutal terrorist entity until 1993, the group’s roots began to take shape years earlier.
Upon the eventual formation of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) around 1993, the group actively advocated the use of violence to attain its goals.
Jemaah Islamiyah has shown the ability and willingness to inflict significant casualties on innocent civilians (including tourists) and those they believe to be allied with “Western interests.” JI was linked to several bombings in 2000.
www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3613   (641 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - U.S.-backed offensives keep terrorism at bay in Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jemaah Islamiyah has been blamed for deadly bombings across Southeast Asia, including the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Jemaah Islamiyah militants designed an 18-month "cadetship training program" for 17-18 Indonesian recruits at a time, the report said.
An arrested Jemaah Islamiyah trainer, known as Rohmat, said three Indonesian militants trained about 60 Abu Sayyaf rebels on southern Jolo island in March 2003 "but they were constantly on the run to avoid government forces," the report said.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-08-16-philippines-terror_x.htm?csp=36   (728 words)

  
 CBS News | Thais: Bangkok Embassy Plot Foiled | June 13, 2003 10:12:44
The Jemaah Islamiyah is blamed for last year's bombings in Bali that left more than 200 people dead, mostly Westerners.
He fled to Malaysia in December 2001 when the government began a crackdown on Jemaah Islamiyah that lead to the arrest of 31 suspected terrorists, the ministry said.
Jemaah Islamiyah has been accused of being responsible for bomb attacks on the Indonesian island of Bali last October that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/06/13/attack/main558544.shtml   (626 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Singapore: Jemaah Islamiyah training new ...
SINGAPORE – The al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network is training new leaders and likely planning more suicide attacks similar to those in Bali and at Jakarta's Marriott Hotel, Singapore's home affairs minister said in remarks released Friday.
The recent arrests of key Jemaah Islamiyah leaders have only temporarily set back the group, and a new generation of leaders is being trained in Pakistan and Indonesia, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said.
Jemaah Islamiyah "as an organization, is only disrupted.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20031121-0652-singapore-terroristthreat.html   (288 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Jemaah Islamiyah funds terror through charity
Citing intelligence reports and police sources, The Star reported that Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, amassed more than a half-million dollars to fund operations of Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant Islamic network believed to be responsible for the Bali bombings and a series of other attacks throughout the region in recent years.
Jemaah Islamiyah was set up by Abdullah Sungkar, another Indonesian preacher, in Malaysia in 1995.
Jemaah Islamiyah, which has ties with other terrorist groups in the region, wants to set up a pan-Islamic state called Daulah Islamiyah Raya through armed uprisings against the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30279   (423 words)

  
 JINSA Online -- Jemaah Islamiyah Shown to Have Significant Ties to al Qaeda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Recently uncovered evidence points to strong connections between the Islamic terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), perpetrator of the recent Indonesian bombings at the Australian embassy in Jakarta and the discothèque in Bali, and al Qaeda.
At its core, Jemaah Islamiyah, stemming from a form of extremism known as Darul Islam, advocates the imposition of Islamic Shari`a law in Indonesia as well as a way to guard Muslim society against “corrupting” Western values.
Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, Jemaah Islamiyah’s most skilled demolition member, was shot by security forces in Mindanao as punishment for escaping from prison in July.
www.jinsa.org /articles/view.html?documentid=2720   (1993 words)

  
 FOX23 News - Coverage & Convenience Officials: Al-Qaida, Jemaah Islamiyah funded terror operations in Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hambali, the suspected operations chief for the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah captured last August in Thailand, disclosed that about $25,000 was sent to a terror cell in the Philippines last year through a man identified only as Zulkipli, the security officials told reporters.
The Philippine military has said that about 30 Jemaah Islamiyah operatives may be hiding on the main southern island of Mindanao to train Filipino militants.
Jemaah Islamiyah has been blamed for the October 2002 bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, which killed 202 people, and other attacks across the region.
www.fox23news.com /news/world/story.aspx?content_id=8D8CC27B-44E8-4D1F-A104-67BA806D158C   (865 words)

  
 Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) may have been responsible for the bomb blasts which killed 22 p - WhisprWave® Forums
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) may have been responsible for the bomb blasts which killed 22 p
Indonesian officials believe Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) may have been responsible for the bomb blasts which killed 22 people on the island of Sulawesi at the weekend.
The Jemaah Islamiyah bombers are still at work, this time exploding their bombs in Indonesia, the homeland of their fanatical movement.
www.whisprwave.com /forum/showthread.php?t=291   (619 words)

  
 Jemaah Islamiyah: Al-Qaeda's Asian branch?
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.
Bashir, according to his indictment, co-founded Jemaah Islamiyah (Islamic community) in Malaysia in 1993 with Abdullah Sungkar.
Jemaah Islamiah is lead by the cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/898951/posts   (1018 words)

  
 7/8/03 - BIN LADEN & JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH - 2003-07-09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A police spokesman said the suspect, Idris, was among eleven members of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group arrested for a bank robbery in Sumatra.
Idris is one of dozens of Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists and their supporters arrested by Indonesian authorities.
Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana was Jemaah Islamiyah's treasurer until his December 2001 arrest in Singapore.
www.voanews.com /uspolicy/archive/2003-07/a-2003-07-09-1-1.cfm   (368 words)

  
 Cambodia: Jemaah Islamiyah suspects must all be brought to trial now - news.amnesty - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Four men were arrested in Cambodia in May and June 2003 as alleged members of Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamic group linked to al-Qaeda, and blamed for the Bali bombing.
All four men were initially charged with the "commission of acts of international terrorism" for their links to Jemaah Islamiyah based on Article 2 of the Cambodian Anti-terrorism Law.
However, the vague wording of this law, which was drawn up in 1992 to address the then on-going armed conflict with the Khmer Rouge, is believed to be among the problems facing the prosecution.
news.amnesty.org /index/ENGASA236092004   (695 words)

  
 The Jakarta Post * Jemaah Islamiyah doesn't exist in Indonesia, top security minister says
However, Susilo said the government would prosecute alleged local leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah if there was evidence they were engaged in international terrorism.
"If there are links or indications that the leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah who are currently in Indonesia are involved in terrorism because of their association with Jemaah Islamiyah, Indonesia will of course take the appropriate legal steps against them," he added.
Neighboring countries say Jemaah Islamiyah is a regional terror network with links to al-Qaeda.
www.geocities.com /soija2002/jp161002c.htm   (326 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.