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2020-08-23 Southeast Asia
Indonesian Police Arrest Wife of MIT Militant Chief
[BenarNews] A 28-year-old woman believed to be married to the leader of the Eastern Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT), a pro-Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bad boy group, has been arrested on terrorism-related charges in Central Sulawesi province, police said.

Ummu Syifa, the wife of MIT chief Ali Kalora, was taken into custody in late July along with another suspect during a raid by elite counterterrorist police force Densus 88, which caught her allegedly trying to deliver money and food to MIT fighters in the mountainous Poso regency, officials said. # id) ?>
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-23 00:14|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1800 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

1 Good to have clarification. I had been wondering at the headline just what the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was doing with militants in Indonesia.
Posted by Tom 2020-08-23 14:18||   2020-08-23 14:18|| Front Page Top

2 Defund MIT! And Harvard too.
Posted by jpal 2020-08-23 16:14||   2020-08-23 16:14|| Front Page Top

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