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The document discusses several Islamic militant groups including Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Jemaah Islamiyah, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. It provides background information on their origins, leadership, goals, and terrorist activities. Specifically, it notes that Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden and has executed numerous attacks against Western targets. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when U.S. forces intervened, and it continues fighting NATO forces. Jemaah Islamiyah operates in several Southeast Asian countries and has been linked to bombings in Indonesia and Australia.
The document discusses several Islamic militant groups including Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Jemaah Islamiyah, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. It provides background information on their origins, leadership, goals, and terrorist activities. Specifically, it notes that Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden and has executed numerous attacks against Western targets. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when U.S. forces intervened, and it continues fighting NATO forces. Jemaah Islamiyah operates in several Southeast Asian countries and has been linked to bombings in Indonesia and Australia.
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The document discusses several Islamic militant groups including Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Jemaah Islamiyah, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. It provides background information on their origins, leadership, goals, and terrorist activities. Specifically, it notes that Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden and has executed numerous attacks against Western targets. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when U.S. forces intervened, and it continues fighting NATO forces. Jemaah Islamiyah operates in several Southeast Asian countries and has been linked to bombings in Indonesia and Australia.
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until 2001 when they were Moro Islamic Liberation Front
dislodged by a U.S.-led military continues to this day. intervention. It is currently Jemaah Islamiyah is a South- The capture in August 2003 engaged in a fierce guerilla East Asian militant Islamic of JI leader, Indonesian Riduan war against NATO forces in organization present in Indonesia, bin Isomoddin (a.k.a. Hambali) Afghanistan. The word “Taliban” Malaysia, the Philippines, and other JI leaders recently is the Pashto plural form of the southern Thailand, Pakistan and were a blow to the JI, but the Arabic “Tâlib”, whcih means Singapore. group continues to be active and “student”. The group gets its “Jemaah Islamiyah” is an appears to be recruiting new name from the fact that its Arabic phrase meaning “Islamic members through a network of membership is drawn from the Group” or “Islamic Community”. Indonesia-based radical Islamic students of religious seminaries and is often abbreviated as schools. in Pakistan and Afghanistan. JI. It is a designated terrorist The exact number of Bin Laden forged an alliance organization by the United States members is unknown with between the Taliban and his Al- and other countries, and the main estimates varying from hundreds Qaeda organization, and helped terrorist threat to Singapore. to thousands. South-East Asian finance the Taliban. JI was responsible for the Bali authorities continue to uncover When the Taliban was in car bombing on Oct 12, 2002 and arrest JI operatives. power in Afghanistan, the regime which killed over 200 tourists In Singapore, 13 JI suspects gained diplomatic recognition and civilians, and is also strongly were detained under the Internal from only three states: the suspected of carrying out the Security Act in December 2001 An admirer of Osama bin Laden hold a copy of the Quʼran United Arab Emirates, Pakistan 2003 JW Marriott Hotel bombing and another 21 in August 2002. next to an image of the terrorist Al-Qaeda leader. and Saudi Arabia. The Taliban in Jakarta, the 2004 Australian Recently a lawyer was detained. regime was severely criticized embassy bombing in Jakarta, Arrests have also been made in for not respecting the human and the 2005 Bali terrorist Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia influence in Muslim countries, is its degree of responsibility for rights of women. Women bombing. and Thailand. eradication of those deemed to be any particular attacks. were prohibited from leaving In December 2001, the It is unlikely that Singapore is “infidels”, and the creation of a their homes unless they were Singapore government uncovered totally free of JI members despite new Islamic caliphate. Al-Qaeda completely covered; no part of a JI plot to bomb the U.S., Israeli, the arrests. However, even if JI does not have a formal structure, their face, hair or body was to be British and Australian diplomatic sympathizers are present in the but recruits field operatives to The Taliban is a Sunni-based shown in public. Religious police missions in Singapore. country, they cannot operate on work independently in support of puritanical movement that ruled patrols forced women to wear The FBI of the U.S.A. has a big scale here as they are not its goals. most of Afghanistan from 1996 a “burqa” (an outer garment) singled out JI as Al-Qaedaʼs in the mainstream Islamic circle, The United Nations Security of a specified length, and even foremost South-East Asian local Muslim leaders say. These Council and several UN member minor deviations could result in collaborator. The recruitment, Islamist extremists are not able states have labelled Al-Qaeda a public punishment; women were training, indoctrination, financial to teach their doctrines openly terrorist organization. beaten at the ankles with sticks and logistic cooperation between nor preach in the mosques, and It has executed many attacks for wearing burqas that were “too the JI and Al-Qaeda and other the majority of local Muslims against targets in various short”. The education of women terrorist groups, such as the (probably 99.9 percent) do not countries, the most prominent ones suffered too, and women were Abu Sayyaf Group and the condone their thinking. ■ being the Sep 11, 2001 attacks on deprived even of elementary the World Trade Center in New education. York and the Pentagon building After the 1998 U.S. embassy in Washington, DC. bombings in Africa, bin Laden In response to the Sep 11 and several Al-Qaeda members attacks, the United States were indicted in a U.S. criminal government and allies launched court. The Taliban refused to a broad military and intelligence extradite bin Laden to the U.S campaign, known as the War and continued to harbour him on Terrorism, with the goals of after the Sep 11, 2001 attacks. dismantling Al-Qaeda and killing Afghan women, all covered Bin Laden took personal or capturing its operatives. up despite the ouster of the responsibility for ordering these Some reports say as many Taliban, line up to cast their attacks in a 2004 broadcast on as three dozen terrorist groups ballots outside a polling station Al Jazeera Satellite Channel (the belong to Al-Qaeda. However in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the Arab worldʼs only independent due to its lack of a formal countryʼs first direct presidential news channel based in Qatar). structure, Al-Qaedaʼs size and election, after the 2001 ouster of Many experts believe that bin reach is difficult to establish, as the Taliban. CNS photo Laden is still alive and in hiding.