http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006- ... 917629.htm
CANBERRA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- More than 200 Southeast Asian suicide bombers have been dispatched around the world with a mission to attack Jewish interests in countries that support Israel, one of the leading Australian newspapers quoted a radical Jakarta-based organization as saying Friday.
These countries include Britain, the United States and possibly Australia, said the daily The Australian.
The newspaper said Asian Muslim Youth Movement (AMYM), a radical Jakarta-based organization, gave it details of the plot Thursday.
The AMYM claimed it was being funded in part with cash donations from two unnamed Australian-Indonesian businessmen.
Suaib Bidu, leader of the organization, warned that thousands more jihadis were preparing to join the resistance against Israel and die as "martyrs."
He said a "passing-out" ceremony for more than 3,000 jihadis would be held Saturday in the Indonesian city of Pontianak on the large northern island of Kalimantan.
While about 200 would be sent immediately to targets aboard, the remainder will be active supporters.
Bidu warned that his group would "monitor" the position of Australia towards Israel's current military operation in southern Lebanon, and that it too could become a target for suicide attacks.
"We have a lot of support, including in Australia, from people who don't believe Israel's attack (on Hezbollah) is just," Bidu was quoted as saying.
He said the group has already sent 217 suicide bombers, including 72 Indonesians as well as citizens of six other Southeast Asian nations, to Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
The AMYM has allegedly previously threatened to attack U.S. interests in Jakarta and has sent fighters to the conflicts in Bosnia and Chechnya, according to the newspaper.
About 40 percent of the AMYM recruits have military experience in countries including Afghanistan, Thailand, The Philippines, Palestine and Iraq, said the newspaper.
Do you think there is any truth to this? It sounds…I don’t know, pretty shocking to me, that they’d send agents all over the world targeting Jews just to get back at what Israel for what they are doing to Lebanon.
I’m finding it a little hard to believe, or maybe I am finding it hard to believe because I don’t want to believe it.
Anyone in Australia read anything about this yet? After all it’s your newspaper, The Australian, which first published this.
