Abu Bakar Bashir

Tomorrow (12 October) marks the fifth anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings that took 202 lives from 22 nations. Prior to October 2002, the Indonesian government had largely been in denial that it harbored religious terrorists. After October 2002, however, the authorities—and especially the police—moved forcefully against religious radicalism. By the opening of 2003, a dragnet had netted hundreds of extremists across the Indonesian archipelago. Three of the masterminds behind the Bali... Read Full Story

The Muslim cleric Abu Bakir Bashir has called for more attacks on Western tourist infidels in Bali, and presumably elsewhere. He has a long history of this kind of attitude, and it took Australian university students to film this Wright-style sermon for it to come to light. read more | digg story Read Full Story

This huge reward for his arrest and conviction got the people in Philippines really excited as he is believed now to be in hiding somewhere in the southern islands providing bomb expertise to Abu Sayyaf militants . Informants in the Philippines have so far received at least US$1.6 million in reward money and worldwide US$62 million has been dished out by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security to more than 40 people with positive leads to the terrorists. But this is a... Read Full Story

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