Monday, April 25, 2011

INDONESIA - Wives and jihad terrorists

When in 1991 he landed in the military training camp Moro in Mindanao, southern Philippines, Ali Zein Hisyam Bawazier has a dream: to find a woman-loving jihad. Our man has just returned from military training in Afghanistan. There, he was known by the name Abu Syeikh. Hisyam passes by Raub, in the State of Pahang in Malaysia Negara Bagian, before being called by Nasir Abbas.

At that time, Nasir [now the most famous terrorist repented of Indonesia, working with the police since his arrest in 2003], leads a commando Jemaah Islamiyah regional and mounted the Hudaibiyah military camp in Mindanao. He recruited Hisyam changing again identity and calls himself Umar Patek.

Nasar remembers that just happened, Umar said: "I am here to seek a wife." Uma realized his dream. He found his better half, a woman from the Visayas in central Philippines. This young Christian convert to Islam had integrated Balik Islam, an organization affiliated with Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah to.

Through this network, she met Umar. In 2002, Umar is accused of taking part in the bombing that killed 202 people in Kuta, Bali. Several documents show it was a display of bombs Sari Club and Paddy's Cafe on 12 October. Wanted, he returns to the Philippines to join the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the armed group Abu Sayyaf.

The U.S. government promised a reward of $ 1 million to anyone leading to the arrest of this man born in Pemalang, Central Java. In 2007, Umar Patek, alias Abdul Ghon, preparing to mount an attack against the San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City, Philippines, with his group, Abu Sayyaf. The executor is chosen.

"Patek said that it would be his wife, Rumaisah, which would put the bomb," said a Tempo source. This plan was abandoned because the last time the group Abu Sayyaf lack of funds. The cathedral was built in 1847 is thus saved. "It is clear that the role of women Patek is not just a mere support, it is also a fighter," said the source.

Rumaisah showed bravery and it grows in the esteem of his entourage. The mare Umar Patek ended in early March in Pakistan. According to background information in Indonesia, Rumaisah was arrested alongside her husband. In groups of jihad, women represent an important part of combat. "The extremist networks prefer that the wife of a mujahid is chosen within their own group," said Sidney Jones, director of the International Crisis Group in Jakarta and an expert in radical Islam in Indonesia.

In general, the happy girls are either elected or sisters of members of a terrorist group. Examples abound: beginning with Nasir Abbas, the repentant terrorist, who married the sister of Ali Ghufron, one of three brains of the Bali bombing in 2002, sentenced to death and executed. Or alias Hari Kuncoro Uceng who married Atika, the younger sister of Dulmatin, killed in the assault of his hideout last year in Banten.

Hari, was accused of concealing Noor Din M. Top, also killed in a police raid in 2009. Hari knew Dulmatin and Umar Patek. Dulmatin itself has many family ties with members of other Islamist groups. The younger sister of his first wife, Istiada, was married to Ali Fani Mifthah alias alias Hamzah, suspected of involvement in the robbery of the bank CIMB Niaga in Medan (Sumatra) last year.

Ibrahim, the author attacks the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotel July 17, 2009, married Sucihani, the little sister Syaifudin Zuhri, himself sentenced to eight years in prison for helping to hide Noor Din M. Top in the house of his uncle, Baridin. Baridin's daughter, Arina, became the third wife of Noor Din.

According to Inspector Ansyaad Mbai, head of the National Office for the fight against terrorism, the weaving of kinship ties through marriage is the main stitches in terrorist networks. "They carefully cultivate this first home network to ensure the safety and group cohesion," he says.

Sidney Jones said, too, that the secret is best kept by the family. In addition, she says, a woman who was widowed after her husband's execution by the security forces will be married again with another mujahid. "The status of the widow grow since her husband died a martyr," said Sidney Jones.

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