http://www.tehrantimes.com/NCms/2007.asp?code=216241 March 18, 2010 Documents
Indonesian militants recruit fighters in video
BANDA ACEH(AP) - From the safety of a forest camp, a commander of a new
Indonesian militant group looks into a camera and ridicules the notorious
extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah: They are not violent enough, come and join
us, he shouts, an automatic rifle in one hand.
The emergence of the previously unknown group calling itself al-Qaida in Aceh
shows how Southeast Asian militants are adapting even amid a Western-funded
crackdown that began following the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and has taken
out scores of top leaders.
The speech is contained on a 75-minute training, recruitment and propaganda
video obtained by The Associated Press from a person not affiliated with the
militant group. It contains scenes of about 15 militants exercising on monkey
bars, shooting automatic weapons and preaching in a makeshift camp in the
western province of Aceh that was raided last month by anti-terrorist police.
It is interspersed with old clips of Osama bin Laden urging violent jihad, or
holy war, and scenes of the men eating fish and rice together from a communal
pot, chanting as they march through the camp and bathing in a river.
Part or all of the video briefly appeared on a militant-linked blog on the
Internet, released by the militants soon after the camp was raided, the first
documented case of a terrorist training camp in Indonesia for five years. Two
short clips are currently available on YouTube.
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