[Kabar-indonesia] School Will Help Indonesian Mujahideen Reach Lebanon

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TEMPO Interaktif
August 1, 2006

School Announces It Will Help Indonesian Mujahideen
Reach Lebanon

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Jakarta: The Alumni Organization of the Al Mukmin
Ngukri Boarding School, Sukoharjo, is facilitating
Indonesian volunteers to travel to Lebanon. According
to the head of the organization, Ali Usman, the group
has also opened a recruitment base for the
coordination of members that are ready to fight.
"Their departure will be secret. What I mean is
without government knowledge, like when they went to
fight in Afghanistan," he told Tempo on Sunday.

    Ali Usman said volunteers that are already
prepared to become mujahideen there is enough military
knowledge and skill to fill the demand. "This is real
solidarity for the Muslim brotherhood who are being
persecuted. They are extremely serious to become
mujahideen. In this short amount of time we have
already coordinated their departure," he said.

    According to Ali Usman, the organization at this
time is thinking about the possibility of opening
public mujahideen recruitment centers for non-alumni.

    The mujahideen, he said, are the last resort after
waiting (in vain) for the government's stance. "If the
government is not willing to help the people of
Lebanon and Palestine, the people themselves must help
in any way they can," he said.

    Meanwhile, in Surakarta the Prosperous Justice
Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, PKS) went to the
streets to condemn Israel's military aggression that
is supported by the United States. They also called
for the closure of the United Nations because it
failed to stop the aggression of Israel.

The Al Mukmin Ngukri Boarding School is affiliated
with Abu Bakar Bashir, who intelligence agencies
describe as the spiritual head of the terror group
Jemaah Islamiyah.

The Tempo article was translated by my colleague Nick
Grace, who provides the following note about the last
paragraph: "It's interesting to note the last
paragraph on the PKS Party, which is essentially the
Muslim Brotherhood's wing in Indonesian politics. They
are believed to be funded by Saudi Arabia and the
leading legislator, Tamsil Linrung, was a central
player in the Poso jihad a few years ago. He was
arrested in Manila in 2002 and accused of carrying
explosives for al Qaeda."

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