The 21st Century Phenomenon
Police has arrested 9 Islamic militants, on Saturday 09/22/2012, in Indonesia and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces.
Indonesian police, on Sunday 03/18/2012, have shot dead five suspected militants on Bali island, officials said.
A suspected suicide bomber, on Sunday 09/25/2011, has detonated explosives in a church in Indonesia’s central Java, injuring at least 20 people, according to an Indonesian radio station.
Indonesia has arrested 16 people suspected of plotting to kill police with cyanide and pen guns, a gun fashioned to look like a pen, authorities said ON Tuesday 06/14/2011.
Malaysia has re-arrested, on Monday 06/06/2011, Agus Salim, an Indonesian who slipped back into the country after being deported two years ago.
A bomb has exploded, on Thursday 03/15/2011, at the office of Ulil Abshar Abdalla, a moderate Islamic PM in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, He frequently speaks out against religious extremism.
Indonesia’s most well-known radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been charged, on Monday 02/14/2011, with planning to use weapons to commit acts of terror.
An Indonesian court has sentenced, on Wednesday 01/19/2011, a former policeman Mohammed Sofyan Tsauri to 10 years for supplying weapons to a terrorist cell plotting attacks on foreigners.
Indonesian police arrested Abu Tholut,on Friday 12/10/2010, accusing him of plotting high-profile assassinations and bloody attacks on foreigners at luxury hotels in the capital Jakarta.
An Islamist terror group on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island planned to attack foreign workers at unit of Chevron Corp’s, a police official told Reuters on Monday 12/06/2010.