A JI terrorist website, due to Noor Top

[Vancouver]

Aaron at Internet Haganah has the story:
http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005282.html
The Reuters write-up is here:
www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-00101528.html
The site has been obliterated but note Aaron's list of related sites and personel.

[Casey]

See translation and screen capture of the website:

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=440094&highlight=Militant+website+shows+stage+attacks+Jak arta#post440094

[Casey]

Latest theory says terrorist Noordin also a hypnotist
November 23, 2005

AdvertisementAMID fears that Indonesia's most wanted terrorist will strike again, some police have a new theory: Noordin Top is using hypnotism to elude capture and recruit more suicide bombers.

The senior Jemaah Islamiah operative — blamed for both Bali bombings and a series of other attacks — has time and again escaped the clutches of the law during the past three years.

Just two weeks ago he slipped through a massive dragnet again, even though counter-terror officers did shoot dead Azahari Husin, his bomb-maker partner.

Reports say some police in notoriously superstitious Indonesia believe Noordin may have the ability to hypnotise people.

"A village chief fell unconscious after kissing the hand of a man resembling Noordin," a policeman told Tempo magazine. The magazine said the chief's mind went blank "like he was hypnotised" after meeting a "tabib", or traditional healer, who looked like Noordin.

One officer said police believed even a skilled religious preacher would have difficulty finding so many followers willing to kill themselves for a cause.

Noordin is JI's chief recruiter, Islamic ideologue and strategist, and there are now fears that he and at least 14 recruits are preparing to unleash a new wave of bombings. Security near and around hotels and shopping malls has been increased after a website last week laid out explicit details on how to launch grenade attacks against foreigners.

National Police chief General Sutanto said the terrorists were being forced to fund their operations by selling prepaid mobile phone vouchers after backing from Saudi Arabian supporters was shut down.

AAP

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/latest-theory-says-terrorist-noordin-also-a-hypnotist/2005/11/22/1132421666064.html

[Petronas]

Website's blueprint for terror
November 23, 2005 - 6:15AM

Australian Federal Police are investigating a website linked to the Jemaah Islamiah group that tells would-be terrorists how to attack westerners. The website, called Anshar El Muslimin, warns of attacks at a locations across Jakarta, including shopping centres, sports venues, hotels and the zoo. It showed detailed maps and attack sites and escape routes, singling out the Kuningan area where the Australian embassy, International Trade Centre and Marriott hotel are located.

The website - reportedly set up on Jemaah Islamiah mastermind Noordin Top's orders by one of the Bali suicide bombing suspects - advises attacks in lunch areas, overhead walkways and traffic snarls, where westerners would be trapped in their vehicles. AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty and Indonesian National Police chief General Sutanto discussed the website last week. An AFP spokesman reportedly said today that Australian officers were working closely with their Indonesian counterparts to trace the origin of the website and its author.

Security guards at the upmarket Plaza Senayen and the Ambassador Mall, popular for electronic goods and pirated DVDs, said they had increased searches. "We have been told by managers to search everyone with extra care," a guard named Idris said, adding that foreign shoppers had stayed away over the weekend. National police spokesman Sunarko Danu Ardanto described the website, which has since been shut down following fresh travel warnings by Australia, Britain and the US, as a "threat to national security".

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/websites-blueprint-for-terror/2005/11/23/1132421689107.html

[Casey]

Militant who aided '05 Bali bombers is jailed

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[URL="http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=DENPASAR, Indonesia&sort=swishrank"]DENPASAR, Indonesia (http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=&sort=swishrank) An Indonesian who set up a militant Web site on behalf of the alleged mastermind of the deadly bombings in Bali last year was jailed for eight years on Tuesday.

The sentence is the first linked to the Oct. 1, 2005 bombings, in which three suicide bombers blew themselves up, killing 20 people at three restaurants on the resort island's beaches of Jimbaran and Kuta.

Judges from the Denpasar district court ruled that Abdul Aziz broke anti- terrorism laws by setting up a militant Web site (http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=440094&highlight=Militant+website+shows+stage+attacks+Jak arta#post440094), anshar.net, that contained diagrams of several locations and explained why they would be ideal for attacking people and how to escape after the attacks. The Web site has been shut down.

Aziz was also found guilty of helping Southeast Asia's most wanted fugitive, Noordin Top, disseminate through the Internet a fiery speech calling on Muslims to wage war against the United States and its allies.

"The panel of judges believe the defendant knew of the involvement" of Top "in the incidents at Jimbaran and Kuta and he had received the special task of making a site that publicized the actions and claims of the Oct. 1 Bali bombings," said Edy Siregar, a member of the three-judge panel.

The judges said the sentence reflected mitigating factors after Aziz expressed regret for his actions. The maximum punishment for terrorism crimes is death.

A case against three other Islamic militants linked to the Bali bombings is still going on, including one alleged to have helped assemble the bombs that were carried in back packs.

The police say that Top and Azhari Husin, both Malaysian nationals, were leading figures in the Al Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamyah, blamed for terror attacks in the region including other bombings in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people.

Azhari, who often traveled with Top, was killed last year during a shoot out in the East Java town of Malang.

Aside from the 2002 and 2005 Bali blasts, Jemaah Islamiyah, Top and Azhari have been linked to bombings at a luxury hotel in Jakarta in 2003 and outside the Australian Embassy in the capital in 2004, among others.

The police and intelligence officials say Jemaah Islamiyah has become decentralized with some factions splitting off and operating independently.

Officials say that despite the capture of about 300 people suspected of violating anti-terrorism laws, violent militants remain a serious threat in Indonesia.

An estimated 85 percent of Indonesians are Muslims. Most are moderates but there has been an increasingly vocal militant minority in recent years.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/05/news/bali.php

[JaneDoe]

He'll be free in less than 2. As is the trend worldwide, they all get a slap on the wrist. I don't know if the governments are caving under threat or payoffs. Either way, it is disheartening.

[Casey]

Terror guide spread in Indonesia

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent September 12, 2006

A GUIDEBOOK urging jihad in the spirit of Osama bin Laden, "the conqueror of communist and American forces", is being distributed across Indonesia in an attempt to create small independent terrorist cells, a new report claims.

The 82-page book has been secretly distributed over the past several months, according to a report yesterday in news magazine Tempo.

The claim comes as senior officials including police chief Sutanto try to reassure the public that chances of a new terrorist bombing are substantially reduced by comparison with previous years.

The period between September and November has become known as "bombing season" and terrorist leader Mohammad Cholily, sentenced in Bali last week to 18 years jail for his involvement in the attacks there last year, told investigators that bombmaker Azahari bin Husin instructed him "there must be a bombing every year".

Azahari lasted only a few weeks beyond that statement, being killed in a shootout with police in East Java in November.
However, his renegade partner Noordin Mohammed Top remains at large and could still be influencing potential bombers -- although the Tempo investigation reveals that with the latest book's help, new cells could be operating without any reference to Top. The guide contains detailed instructions on seeking funding, recruiting members, dividing tasks among members, on training methods and rules for selecting meeting places.

It also quotes from the Koran "justifying terror-based jihad", according to the magazine, and orders its readers: "We expect that you will act on these writings based on your own particular experience."

It says: "We hope you will be protected by Allah, just as he has protected Sheik Abu Abdillah Osama bin Laden."
Jakarta police spokesman Paulus Purwoko said the book would be investigated but "we need to know more about its distribution". He added that guidebooks of this sort had been in circulation since the first Bali bomb attacks in October 2002.
The magazine quotes a senior figure in regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah, who it says produced a copy of the manual for its reporter to read.

Recruits are to be trained, it says, at staged levels according to their abilities. The first test is to work as a document courier and, if that is successful, to be given permission to send documents via a courier.
Simulated police raids and arrests are part of the training.
Specialisations are to be identified, with skills in particular demand including Islamic preaching, intelligence and security, and computer and internet abilities.

Those with technical backgrounds should be trained in bombmaking.
Background checks are to be done on all candidates, with those aged between 12 and 18 of most interest because this period has the greatest influence on character formation.

Planning documents are to be secured at all costs, with the guide ordering cell-members to keep a bottle of flammable material and matches beside their computers should a raid be conducted.

Details of how to erase computer information are given. Members are also ordered to make efforts to fit in with their local communities, with the specific instruction to "always try to be present at weddings and other ceremonies".

A senior anti-terror policeman yesterday described the book as "propaganda, of which they have plenty".

Former JI chief Nasir Abas, who is helping Indonesian police, said the book's existence could not yet be confirmed, but it was likely "because there are people going to extreme methods to make a point".

"If there are characters saying suicide bombers are mujaheddin, for me that's giving them a kind of moral support," Mr Abas said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20395942-601,00.html