Striving for spectacle and economic impact, along with loss of life. "Indonesian police arrest 5 over fuel depot 'plot'," from CNN, October 22:
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Police in Indonesia arrested five suspected militants Tuesday who they said were planning to attack a major fuel depot in Jakarta.
Brigadier General of Police Sulistyo Ishak said a raid on a house in north Jakarta also yielded a stash of explosives and weapons. Investigators found 21 bullets, 6.6 lbs. (3 kgs) of explosives, PVC pipes and bomb-making manuals, he said.
The suspected militants are believed to have ties to the al Qaeda-linked terror network, Jemaah Islamiyah, which aims to create a Muslim "superstate" across much of southeast Asia.
Authorities blame Jemaah Islamiyah for the Bali nightclub bombings of 2002, which killed more than 200 mostly Western tourists.
Investigators also suspect the group in subsequent attacks on the Australian Embassy and J.W. Marriott hotel, both in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
The house that police raided was rented under the name of one of the suspects, Wahyu Ramadhan. Authorities accuse him of being involved in violence in Poso, on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island.
Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the region killed more than 1,000 people in the late 1990s. Clashes still break out periodically and sometimes turn deadly.
Police have accused Jemaah Islamiyah of sending armed militants to Poso.
OT, but Islam related.
Please look at this site dealing with the Hellenic Genocide.
When "palestinians" bellyache about Israel being an "apartheid state", we should present them this history.
http://www.hellenicgenocide.org/quotes/p-he-smyrna-vict-trsoldiers-heads.html
(At the bottom of the page there is a *next picture* tab.)
Indonesian police arrest 5 in al-Qaeda linked plot against Jakarta fuel depot
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Well, here I am--I've just gotten up, a bit bleary-eyed, no coffee as yet--and I log onto JW and find this article. It occurs to me that this is so common--articles such as "Denmark: two jihadists found guilty of preparing attack", or "U.K.: five arrested in "counterterror" raids", or "Two Methodists arrested in Germany on terror charges--no, wait..."
In all cases, small cells, wherever there is an Infidel regime (or, an "apostate" regime, in this case)--bent on Jihad violence--often, indeed, as Marisol notes, "striving for spectacle and economic impact, along with loss of life". A perfect description, really, of 9/11.
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The suspected militants are believed to have ties to the al Qaeda-linked terror network, Jemaah Islamiyah, which aims to create a Muslim "superstate" across much of southeast Asia.
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That would be the "Caliphate".
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Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the region killed more than 1,000 people in the late 1990s. Clashes still break out periodically and sometimes turn deadly.
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Ah--another case of "fighting" between Christians and Muslims--or Hindus and Muslims, or Buddhists and Muslims. Surely an equal fight over land or some such.
Here's an example:
Three Christian girls beheaded in Indonesia
http://jihadwatch.org/archives/008755.php
Sounds like Jihad to me.
One thing is clear, when the Moslems cannot kill us, they kill each other.
I say keep it up...full steam ahead, do all the cleansing of inferior, impure, and sinful terrorist Moslems of a different stripe they can find. We can even help them out.
Let's give Hamas a list of all the other Moslems who are terrorists and let them have at it.
Hmmm, I do believe this is a standard, by-the-book, intel trick from the 1980s (i.e. double agent for the US, Sarkis Soghanalian who kept Saddam Hussein pointed at Iran until exposed by an American Leftist prosecutor in Miami, Linda Tarbe) and it works very well. Let us keep it up.