My, but he's "misunderstanding" Islam far from home. But the goal of jihad in all its forms is, after all, to impose Islamic law. That is why we find jihadists in "local" conflicts far removed from one another finding common cause and joining forces. "Bali bombing suspect Umar Patek 'arrested in Pakistan'," from BBC News, March 30:
One of Indonesia's top terror suspects, wanted in connection with the 2002 Bali bombing, has been captured in Pakistan, reports say.
Umar Patek, a suspected member of the militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was detained earlier this year, local and foreign intelligence sources say.
Jakarta is sending a team of police officers to confirm his identity.
The 2002 attacks on nightclubs in the Indonesian tourist hub left 202 people dead, many of them foreigners.
The US, which lost seven nationals in the attack, was offering a $1m (£625,000) reward for his arrest.
Umar Patek is the only major suspect for the attack who has not been killed or arrested, says the BBC's Kate McGeown in Jakarta.
As well as the Bali bombings, he is alleged to have been involved in at least three other attacks in Indonesia - and to have links with militant groups in the southern Philippines and al-Qaeda members in other parts of Asia, our correspondent says.
There are no details about where or how the arrest was made, nor what he was doing in Pakistan.
Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group told the BBC that his arrest could yield important information.
"Umar Patek is critical to understanding the terrorist networks in South East Asia. And because he appears to have been arrested in Pakistan, he's also going to be critical to understanding the networks between South Asia and South East Asia," she said.
"He's in a position to know more than almost anyone else in the region exactly what the strengths, networks, contacts, finances and so on of each of these groups is."
Jemaah Islamiah (JI), which has links to al-Qaeda, has a long track record of bomb attacks in Indonesia.
A suicide bomb attack in July 2009 targeted two luxury hotels, killing seven people.
JI's goal is the establishment of an Islamic state in Indonesia and in other parts of South East Asia.
South-East Asia that include Islamic-populated oil-rich Malaysia, Southern Thailand, Mindanao of the Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei, must be saved, from the oil-hungry suspected alliance of Saudi-Muslim Brotherhood-Iran-Turkey's Islamic grip (since their oil is diminishing!) - massive new oil & gas discovery in Borneo island especially. Thus is why they're stealthily radicalizing through showering poor blind Muslim fools and the equally greedy rich Muslim fools with lots of money, in cash, or through mosque building (including in Hindu-dominated Bali through poor or bribed Javanese Muslim settlers) or infiltrating or setting up Islamic depts. in Universities and also pushing their many foot-soldiers including from Pakistan and Bangladesh(where many are brought in as migrant workers) to seduce poor uneducated women particularly non-Muslim women, from the villages like in Borneo. Non-Arab Muslims especially used to be modern people in SEA must breakaway from these primitive or barbaric influences if they want to go back to being modern and civilized like in the mostly progressive Western world. Or completely abandoned Islam, where Islam is really about being SLAVES to savage Arabic Imperialism, where Islam is created by the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner (including sexual slaves such as young Jewish captive girls), and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed.
But the goal of jihad in all its forms is, after all, to impose Islamic law. That is why we find jihadists in "local" conflicts far removed from one another finding common cause and joining forces.
These atavistic Islamic Jihad troglodytes are empowered by modern technology (air travel, cell phones, email, Facebook, plastic explosives, etc) in ways they could never do back in the days of true "local conflicts", so now have gone global and ballistic.
Jihad has spread its evil wings worldwide, so expect their murderous intent surfacing anywhere on the planet at any time. Welcome to the Brave New World of modern Islamic universalism, killing one victim at a time, in large numbers, 17000 (times 7) since 9/11 alone. Of course, the truth of Islam is so hideous that most would rather turn their faces away... Who can blame them... the horror.
The horror, the horror... The true face of the 'Religion of Peace' (TM) in its naked horror. Death!... for the jihadi Allah akhbar myth.