Jemaah Islamiyah

Executive Summary This essay provides an analysis of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah from its foundation and grass roots development up until the splintering of the group in 2000. It also provides analysis of the motivations behind its founder and the future of JI and radical Islam. The analysis is provided in seven parts that cover key areas including the inception of JI, the status and role of Ba’asyir, the ideological influence of Darul Islam, JI’s manifesto and operational charter, the

......................................................2 The Jemaah Islamiyah Network ..................................................................................................3 History of Jemaah Islamiyah .................................................................................................5 Jemaah Islamiyah’s Relationship to Al Qaeda........................................................................5 Jemaah Islamiyah’s Size and Structure .............................

dependent on this. (2) (i) The threat of terrorism from the incident about Mas Selamat has caused a great impact to the nation’s sovereignty. This whole incident lasted from 2002-2009 and it all started when he joined a group called the Jemmaah Islamiyah (JI) which was a Southeast Asian militant terrorist organization. This incident brought a nation-wide terror to the people in Singapore because Singapore is so safe whereby this kind of situation rarely exists as the police are competent. Due to

Southeast Asia has been home for indigenous Islamic militant groups for decades. These groups were weak and most of them operated in their own country or island focus being on adoption of sharia law and seeking independence from central government. Jemaah Islamiyah, derived from an Arabic name that means Islam community, is a militant Islamic group that is active in several Southeast Asian countries and is an example of a terrorism organization (Zalman, 2004). This organization aims to establish a pan-Islamic

brother-in- law Muhammad Jamal Khalifa. In 1997, the U.S. State Department designated Abu Sayyaf a foreign terrorist organization. In January 2002, Filipino police arrested Indonesian Islamic extremist Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, a self-confessed member of Jemaah Islamiyah and an Al Qaeda explosives expert. Following his arrest, Ghozi led Filipino authorities to a large cache of arms and explosives in Mindanao and told a Filipino court that he planned to use the explosives for jihad attacks in Asia. He was sentenced

jihad in Asia. Based on evidence of her own investigation, the Bali bombing was indeed the work of al-Qaeda, which provided funds, training, and some of the personnel to supplement Jemaah Islamiyah’s home grown recruiting. It was the orders from al-Qaeda’s number two that Jemaah Islamiyah switched from Plan A in Singapore to Plan B in Bali. Malaysia is often cited as a model for Southeast Asia. It was only after the September 11 attacks, that it became clear that

decades, one of these disputes is a dangerous incident that added a negative surface to Indonesia’s reputation among the Australians police, as Australia has been exposed to a significant aggression from a group of Indonesian extremists such as 'Jemaah Islamiyah' or other Indonesian terrorist groups, which leaded to murdering of more than ninety Australians in the prior

Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Bali Bombing October 12, 2002 would become a decisive turning point for foreign and domestic politics in Indonesia. On that day, the lives of over two hundred and two people were claimed after three bombs were denoted simultaneously in Bali and one in Sulawesi. This act of violence was to become the most devastating act of terrorism on Indonesian soil. The Bali bombing can be viewed as the most devastating act of terrorism not only because the bombing was the first

Psych 253 Book Review: Talking to the Enemy Richard Marion In his book Talking to the Enemy (2010), Scott Atran uses his experiences in the countries often perceived as the origin of most global terrorist actions against the United States combined with scientific proof from a wide variety of sources to argue for new methods of understanding and stopping terrorism as it exists today. Though many examples and analyses of terrorist acts are examined in the book along with many different explanations

Motivation for Terrorist Acts All terrorism is meant to accomplish one thing. What has been popularly called an act of terror is so-termed because the perpetrators hope that they can affect the manner in which people perceive their safety and the government that is supposed to be protecting them. With this goal in mind, every act that can be called terrorist in origin wants to have a psychological component. The success or failure of the attempt can, in one way, be seen as effective depending