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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** ISIS linked family of six bombs three churches in Indonesia
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Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze following a blast at the Pentecost Church Central Surabaya in Indonesia on Sunday (Reuters)
Terrorist atrocities took a new turn on Sunday when a family of six,
including a mother, a father, two daughters and two sons, all
performed coordinated simultaneous terror attacks on three churches in
Surabaya, the second-largest city in Indonesia. At least 13 people
were killed, and 40 injured.
The two sons, aged 16 and 18, rode motorcycles into Santa Maria
Catholic Church and detonated the bombs they were carrying.
Five minutes later, the father drove a car containing explosives and
rammed it into the gate and onto the grounds of the Surabaya Centre
Pentecostal Church.
Five minutes after that, the mother and her two daughters, aged 9 and
12, all strapped explosives to their bodies and blew themselves up at
Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church.
ISIS (Islamic State in Syria) took credit for Sunday's attack.
However, their press releases made no mention that the attackers were
all from the same family, indicating that, as usual, ISIS is taking
credit for a terror attack that it knows nothing about, except that it
was conducted in the ISIS name.
Authorities are certain that the attackers were part of the
Indonesian-based Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) militant group. JAD
pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2015, and then conducted a series of
explosions and shootings in Indonesia's capital city Jakarta, killing
four civilians. It was the first attack in the country to be linked
to ISIS.
The family of six that perpetrated Sunday's attacks had recently
returned from a family trip to Syria. Like hundreds of other
Indonesians, and like tens of thousands of people from over 80
countries around the world, they had gone to Syria to fight the
Shia/Alawite president Bashar al-Assad, who was attacking peaceful
Sunni anti-government protesters by sending missiles into school
dormitories to kill children, or dropping barrel bombs laden with
metal, chlorine, ammonia, phosphorous and chemical weapons on civilian
neighborhoods, or using Sarin gas to kill large groups of people.
Sunday's attack is believed to be one that is part of a growing
nightmare scenario, where the tens of thousands of young jihadis who
had gone to Syria to fight al-Assad are now returning home, after ISIS
lost almost all of the territory it formerly controlled in Syria and
Iraq. As thousands of ISIS fighters return to their home countries,
they will conduct terror attacks there in the name of ISIS. Reuters and Long War Journal and Daily Mail (London)
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**** Saturday's Paris knife attacker had links to jihadists in Syria
****
A variation of the nightmare scenario described above was followed by
Khamzat Azimov, 20. On Saturday evening, Azimov traveled to one of
the most popular areas of Paris, near the celebrated opera house and
theatres, and started attacking passersby with a knife. He shouted
"Allahu Akbar," and killed on passerby and injured four others before
being tasered and then shot dead by police.
Azimov was born in Chechnya, and obtained French nationality in 2010
when his mother was naturalized. Azimov had previously been flagged
as a possible security risk, and had been interviewed by
counter-terrorism police -- not because of his behavior, but because
of his contacts. He was known to have links to young French people
who had traveled to Syria to join ISIS.
So Azimov himself didn't go to Syria and return, as was the case with
the Indonesian family. Instead, he allowed himself to be radicalized
by people who had gone to Syria. Guardian (London)
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**** Growth of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in Indonesia
****
Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, about 227 million
Muslims out of a total population of 261 million people. About 10% of
the population are Christian.
Sunday's attack was the worst terror attack since 2002, when al-Qaeda
linked Jemaah Islamiyah killed more than 200 people, mostly tourists,
through a string of bombings at popular nightclubs and hotels on
Indonesia's island of Bali. Since then, Indonesian police have
arrested or killed hundreds of people with links to Jemaah Islamiyah,
By 2014, a new generation of jihadists was coming of age in Indonesia,
but were impatient with the older generation that had perpetrated the
Bali bombing in 2002. When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS,
declared his caliphate in 2014, many Indonesian jihadists immediately
pledged allegiance to ISIS. There were some two dozen extremist
groups competing to lead the ISIS cause in Indonesia.
Under the leadership of a radical cleric named Oman Rochman, also
known as Aman Abdurrahman, Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) was formed as
an umbrella organization for all these extremist groups.
Aman Abdurrahman, the leader of JAD, has been in jail for the last 12
years, and is currently on trial for inciting followers to commit acts
of terrorism while behind bars at a detention center which has been
described by analysts as a breeding ground for pro-ISIS militants.
BBC and
Al Jazeera and Long War Journal (18-Apr-2017)
Related Articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Indonesia, Jakarta, Surabaya,
Pentecost Church Central Surabaya, Santa Maria Catholic Church,
Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church,
Jemaah Islamiyah, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah, JAD,
Oman Rochman, Aman Abdurrahman,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Syria, Bashar al-Assad,
France, Paris, Khamzat Azimov
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- ISIS linked family of six bombs three churches in Indonesia
- Saturday's Paris knife attacker had links to jihadists in Syria
- Growth of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in Indonesia
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**** ISIS linked family of six bombs three churches in Indonesia
****
Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze following a blast at the Pentecost Church Central Surabaya in Indonesia on Sunday (Reuters)
Terrorist atrocities took a new turn on Sunday when a family of six,
including a mother, a father, two daughters and two sons, all
performed coordinated simultaneous terror attacks on three churches in
Surabaya, the second-largest city in Indonesia. At least 13 people
were killed, and 40 injured.
The two sons, aged 16 and 18, rode motorcycles into Santa Maria
Catholic Church and detonated the bombs they were carrying.
Five minutes later, the father drove a car containing explosives and
rammed it into the gate and onto the grounds of the Surabaya Centre
Pentecostal Church.
Five minutes after that, the mother and her two daughters, aged 9 and
12, all strapped explosives to their bodies and blew themselves up at
Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church.
ISIS (Islamic State in Syria) took credit for Sunday's attack.
However, their press releases made no mention that the attackers were
all from the same family, indicating that, as usual, ISIS is taking
credit for a terror attack that it knows nothing about, except that it
was conducted in the ISIS name.
Authorities are certain that the attackers were part of the
Indonesian-based Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) militant group. JAD
pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2015, and then conducted a series of
explosions and shootings in Indonesia's capital city Jakarta, killing
four civilians. It was the first attack in the country to be linked
to ISIS.
The family of six that perpetrated Sunday's attacks had recently
returned from a family trip to Syria. Like hundreds of other
Indonesians, and like tens of thousands of people from over 80
countries around the world, they had gone to Syria to fight the
Shia/Alawite president Bashar al-Assad, who was attacking peaceful
Sunni anti-government protesters by sending missiles into school
dormitories to kill children, or dropping barrel bombs laden with
metal, chlorine, ammonia, phosphorous and chemical weapons on civilian
neighborhoods, or using Sarin gas to kill large groups of people.
Sunday's attack is believed to be one that is part of a growing
nightmare scenario, where the tens of thousands of young jihadis who
had gone to Syria to fight al-Assad are now returning home, after ISIS
lost almost all of the territory it formerly controlled in Syria and
Iraq. As thousands of ISIS fighters return to their home countries,
they will conduct terror attacks there in the name of ISIS. Reuters and Long War Journal and Daily Mail (London)
****
**** Saturday's Paris knife attacker had links to jihadists in Syria
****
A variation of the nightmare scenario described above was followed by
Khamzat Azimov, 20. On Saturday evening, Azimov traveled to one of
the most popular areas of Paris, near the celebrated opera house and
theatres, and started attacking passersby with a knife. He shouted
"Allahu Akbar," and killed on passerby and injured four others before
being tasered and then shot dead by police.
Azimov was born in Chechnya, and obtained French nationality in 2010
when his mother was naturalized. Azimov had previously been flagged
as a possible security risk, and had been interviewed by
counter-terrorism police -- not because of his behavior, but because
of his contacts. He was known to have links to young French people
who had traveled to Syria to join ISIS.
So Azimov himself didn't go to Syria and return, as was the case with
the Indonesian family. Instead, he allowed himself to be radicalized
by people who had gone to Syria. Guardian (London)
****
**** Growth of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in Indonesia
****
Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, about 227 million
Muslims out of a total population of 261 million people. About 10% of
the population are Christian.
Sunday's attack was the worst terror attack since 2002, when al-Qaeda
linked Jemaah Islamiyah killed more than 200 people, mostly tourists,
through a string of bombings at popular nightclubs and hotels on
Indonesia's island of Bali. Since then, Indonesian police have
arrested or killed hundreds of people with links to Jemaah Islamiyah,
By 2014, a new generation of jihadists was coming of age in Indonesia,
but were impatient with the older generation that had perpetrated the
Bali bombing in 2002. When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS,
declared his caliphate in 2014, many Indonesian jihadists immediately
pledged allegiance to ISIS. There were some two dozen extremist
groups competing to lead the ISIS cause in Indonesia.
Under the leadership of a radical cleric named Oman Rochman, also
known as Aman Abdurrahman, Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) was formed as
an umbrella organization for all these extremist groups.
Aman Abdurrahman, the leader of JAD, has been in jail for the last 12
years, and is currently on trial for inciting followers to commit acts
of terrorism while behind bars at a detention center which has been
described by analysts as a breeding ground for pro-ISIS militants.
BBC and
Al Jazeera and Long War Journal (18-Apr-2017)
Related Articles:
- Third terrorist bomb blast in Indonesia in three years (09-Sep-2004)
- Threat of Christmas terror attacks in Indonesia (25-Dec-2005)
- Rise of ISIS spawns new jihadist groups in Indonesia (15-Jul-2014)
- Tensions grow with China over Indonesia's Natuna Islands (21-Oct-2014)
- China's coast guard warship rams vessel in Indonesian waters (24-Mar-2016)
- China demands that Indonesia end plans to rename its own territorial waters (10-Sep-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Indonesia, Jakarta, Surabaya,
Pentecost Church Central Surabaya, Santa Maria Catholic Church,
Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church,
Jemaah Islamiyah, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah, JAD,
Oman Rochman, Aman Abdurrahman,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Syria, Bashar al-Assad,
France, Paris, Khamzat Azimov
Permanent web link to this article
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John J. Xenakis
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Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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