Indonesia: 1,800,000 people take part in jihad terror networks

Posted by Robert on October 16, 2011 5:21 AM

Tiny Minority of Extremists™ Update from modern, moderate Indonesia: "Indonesia: About '1.8 million people' have terror links," from [1] AKI, October 12 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Jakarta, 12 Oct. (AKI) - About 1.8 million of Indonesia's 246 million people have potential links to terrorism, according to the country's anti-terror chief.

"The number is this. More or less 1.8 million people take part in terrorist networks," said Ansyaad Mbai., who heads Indonesia's National Anti-Terrorism Agency, or BNPT, speaking during a panel discussion in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Indonesia, world's most populous Muslim country, is combating Al-Qaeda linked terrorists whose most notorious attack was in Bali in 2002 when 200 people died in an attack by the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group. The country is also fighting a separatist movement in the Aceh region of northern Sumatra....


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/indonesia-1800000-people-take-part-in-jihad-terror-networks.html

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