07 Oct 2005

Jihadi Terrorism in S.E. Asia
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "14. One has reasons to be more worried about the deteriorating situation in Southern Thailand than about the situation in Indonesia. What started as sporadic acts of terrorism in the beginning of last year have been transformed into sustained acts of insurgency ---marked by a steady flow of volunteers and with a mix of modus operandi involving the use of hand-held weapons as well as explosives reminiscent of the MO adopted by the jihadi terrorist organisations of Pakistan and Bangladesh such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) and the LET. One sees more the finger-prints of these organisations in Southern Thailand than those of the JI. [...] 17. While there are as yet no indications that the acts of jihadi terrorism in Indonesia are being commanded and controlled from outside the affected region, there is clear-cut evidence that the jihadi terrorism in Southern Thailand is being commanded and controlled from Bangladesh and Pakistan. - b. raman."
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers16/paper1566.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
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