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Showing posts with label Jemaah Islamiyah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jemaah Islamiyah. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Indonesia: Radical Muslim preacher linked to Bali arrested

For being linked with yet another terrorist cell. Radical Muslim preacher linked to Bali arrested in Indonesia - Telegraph:
"Abu Bakar Bashir, 71, co-founder of Indonesia's deadliest terror group, al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, was accused of providing vital support for an extremist cell plotting a wave of assassinations and high-profile attacks. 
He was seized in West Java, where a plot to kill President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was uncovered last week, and taken to Jakarta for questioning.

Mr Bashir was arrested twice before and spent 30 months in jail for conspiracy over his links to the 2002 Bali bombings in which 202 people - mostly Australian tourists - were killed.
But he was acquitted and released in 2006.

Sunday, 26 September 2010

Singapore: Escaped Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist arrested

WSJ:
Singapore's government said the suspected leader of the Singapore wing of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group is back in its custody two-and-a-half years after a daring jailbreak.

The Home Ministry said Mas Selamat Kastari is "currently under investigation" and being held under the country's Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial. Malaysian police deported the suspect Friday—nearly 18 months after capturing him in southern Malaysia.

Mr. Kastari escaped from prison in 2008—embarrassing tightly policed Singapore—by squeezing through a bathroom window at its Whitley Road Detention Center. Mr. Kastari spent 12 months on the run, evading a massive manhunt and raising fears that he was receiving support from a network of terrorist operatives across the region.

Malaysian police tracked down Mr. Kastari, who is of Indonesian descent, in Johor state in April 2009 and held him for interrogation until Friday, when authorities handed him back to their Singaporean counterparts. Singapore praised the cooperation on the suspect's transfer, which came on the heels of bilateral talks between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Singaporean authorities accuse Mr. Kastari, who is in his late 40s, of being the chief of the Singapore wing of Jemaah Islamiyah, the group responsible for the 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, which killed 202 people, as well as a slew of other attacks. Officials say Mr. Kastari hatched a plan to hijack an aircraft and crash it into Singapore's Changi airport, one of the busiest terminals in the region.
Photo: here.