Basri's story does not add up: He mentions desiring revenge against Christians following a sectatian clash in 2001, but, according to the article, did not take an oath of secrecy and join the al Qaeda-affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah until 2003. "Terror suspects: Al Qaeda brainwashed us," from CNN:
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Basri sports a crude tattoo of Mickey Mouse on his wrist and spent his youth drinking alcohol and jamming to Nirvana songs in a rock band.
He was never religious, and even now struggles to remember verses from the Quran, Islam's holy book.
Yet until his arrest this month, the 30-year-old was one of Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militants.
He was accused in the beheadings of three Christian girls and a string of other attacks on Sulawesi island, a key terror front in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
In interviews with The Associated Press, Basri and four other militants detained with him said they were uneducated men, seeking to avenge relatives killed in a Muslim-Christian conflict six years ago.
They said they were brainwashed by members of the al Qaeda linked Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah.
"I was like buffalo with a ring though my nose," Basri said in the interview, which was arranged by police officers who were present through most of it. "If I was pulled, I had no choice but to follow."
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Police say Basri has formally confessed to taking part in the school girl attack in late 2005, including personally beheading one of the three girls as they walked to school along a quiet jungle path overlooking the town of Poso.
Basri and the other suspects said they evaded arrest for years, learning weapons handling and bomb-making skills from revered Jemaah Islamiyah instructors who either fought or trained in Afghanistan or the southern Philippines -- another Southeast Asian terror hotspot just a short boat journey from Sulawesi.
The crackdown on Sulawesi that netted Basri saw more than 20 suspected Islamic militants killed or arrested -- including several Jemaah Islamiyah ringleaders. But police warn that several more escaped and have likely traveled to the country's main island of Java.
Basri repeated his confession to the AP, describing in detail its planning and execution.
"The preachers told us it was a form of worship," he said. "They said, 'The Christians cut of the heads of Muslim girls in the war, so know it is payback time."'
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Basri claimed he was sorry "not just from my mouth but from deep in my heart."
But he nevertheless joked and laughed as he described how it took two swipes of his machete to lop the head off one of the girls.
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Several Arab and Spanish al Qaeda members spent time in the province, handing out weapons and instructing Indonesian fighters at a coastal camp, according to Gen. Abdullah Hendropriyono, the intelligence agency's head at the time.
"It is a fact that al Qaeda took these people to Poso in 2001," he said after showing a reporter video footage of terror training seized from an Arab fighter at the time. "They wanted to create a religious war."
Basri, who goes by a single name, said he did not take part in those training sessions, but was nevertheless a frontline fighter in the war, describing how he saw several relatives killed.
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Basri and the other men described how they took an oath of secrecy with Jemaah Islamiyah teachers in 2003 before joining them for weekly indoctrination lessons that were wholly focused on the need for jihad, or holy war, against unbelievers.
In 2005, he and other militants took shooting lessons on a boat at sea, he said.
"These men did not pray or fast, they were gangsters seized upon by these preachers, who told them what they were doing was good, legal and justified by Allah," said Nasir Abbas, a former Jemaah Islamiyah leader in Sulawesi who has since turned police informant.
Jihad war terror rocks. Rock on. Heck, even worship a rock, if that rocks your boat.
Now that Islam has become a fashion statement, the rest of us are left naked.
Hark, the new defence:
"islam made me do it !"
Our success in highlighting the evil of islam is become their apology.
What irony.
Al Qaeda this, Al Qaeda that, Al Qaeda something else. He was brainwashed by ISLAM!
"I was like buffalo with a ring though my nose,
well there is one remedy to take care of an errant bull, feed him to the dogs!
More "brainwashing" here:
Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi May be Primed to Explode
Ummah News Links
...That Islam indoctrinated its youth and advocates extreme violence...There can be no doubt....
...Of course, the Dhimmicrats just want to leave these people alone...
...The indoctrination takes place in the homes of the MUslims, the schools of the Muslims, the MOsques of the Muslims, and in the neighborhoods of the Muslims...
...Those "single incident" cases that continue to occur are by no means isolated incidents...they are all part of the "Jihad"..
...Ban Muslim Immigration now...
The old "The devil made me do it" defense.
"For He will give His (especial) angels charge over you to accompany and defend and preserve you in all your ways [of obedience and service]."
Psalm 91:11 Amplified Version
When the sunami hit on Christmas day a couple of years ago, a small Christian church in Bande Ache, Indonsia had been ordered to leave the city limits, to have their Christmas service, by the local Imam. He had raged on and on about not allowing anything "Christian" to go on in "his" city!
Christmas morning the church members left town to have their service and spotted a hill not too far away, so they went to the top of the hill and about that time the sunami hit and they watched, UNTOUCHED, as the whole town and all the Moslems were washed away to their deaths. It was one of the worst hit areas in the whole region.
guide inside, what a great story! if muslims are as smart as they think they are, they would see that their allah is the evil one, and Christanity the stronger one.
Lets see now---What religion causes a person to giggle when recounting how many machete swings it takes to behead innocent young school girls?
Hmmmmmmm, lets see-- Christianity, Hmmm, no not Christianity. Is it ______ no, is it_______ no, is it_________no, (you fill in the blanks).
Wait a minute. Thats right!-- Theres only one "religion" that is that sick!---ISLAM!!!
Indeed, the Religion of the Anti-Christ is marching forward in Indonesia as well....
This same story is heard on the lips of OJ Simpson and every other criminal caught. WaWaWa.
What I would like to see is if al Qaeda has started using real brainwashing techniques which are subtle I will not reveal here as there is too much information helping enemies of the west.
A Google Images search for - beheading indonesia -will show what he is joking and laughing about.
Sociopaths and those who follow them are never at fault, you see, because the sociopath is 'special' and beyond the rules, which they see as applying to all 'suckas' except them. Mohammed is a perfect example in this regard.
Unfortunately 1.2 billion still submit to the idea that Mohammed is the perfect example in all things, not just in criminal behavior or sociopathic justifications of evil.
Too bad for the rest of us. This won't turn out well.
I have had all my posts removed from the Swedish site FOMI nu,at my request due to the politically correct tendencies of the administators.
The images can now be found here.
warning graphic
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2006/03/where-i-live-pt8.html
Um....so if these gangsters had only "prayed and fasted", that would've made all the difference? That probably would've only made them praying-and-fasting gangsters (as if AQ and JI comprised of no one who prayed and fasted). These preachers who supposedly "seized upon them"....I'm sure THEY prayed and fasted, yah? So what was guiding these praying-and-fasting preachers to instruct "non-praying, non-fasting" gangsters that killing non-Muslims was "good, legal and justified by Allah"?
there must have been a choice to be made ....choose between brainwashing or head chopping...quickly now, we do not have all day...
The real outrage has yet to occur.
Just wait and see what sort of house arrest, probation or time served kind of sentence this homicidal terrorist psychomaggot receives.
Then prepare to be outraged.
Indonesia's kid glove treatment of Grand High Thug Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (Bashir), has been nothing but a slap in the face for those who fight terrorism. Yet we send them billions each time a tsunami hits without warning. The fact that in the past Indonesia's intensely corrupt government refused to spend money for the upgrade and completion of an adequate tsunami warning system is nearly as infuriating.
Lying and deception not only allowed in Islam but encouraged.
Believe not what they say, but what they do. Islam is as we see it, not what they tell us it is.
Shiva, I watched the graphic link and agree we need more brutal raw images of what these devils are capable of.