Jemaah Islamiah, or JI, the so called SE Asia wing of Al qaeda was immediately blamed for the Bali bombings. JOHN HOWARD: We will be moving, Mr Speaker, as a government, to have Jemaah Islamiyah listed as a terrorist organisation in the UN as soon as possible.

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s702288.htm

 

Jemaah Islamiah formed after the CIA funded and trained islamist militants during the soviet-Afghan war. The Bali bombing and the 1993 WTC bombing terrorists linked to the CIA, are simply written off as blowback from poor US foreign policy. However, there is an important twist to the CIA backing of the mujaheedeen. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser revealed this in a 1998 interview to the French magazine 'Le Nouvel Observateur', Brzezinski: According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise:

Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. 15-21 January 1998
This man, simply known as Hambali, was named as the mastermind of the Bali bombings. He received military training in Afghanistan under the CIA.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/report_archive/A400845_11122002.pdf

 

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In 1978, one year before the start of the soviet-afghan war, Fauzi Hasbi was captured by this Indonesian Special Forces unit. He became a secret agent for Indonesian military intelligence.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00223.htm

 

The International crisis group or ICG published a report in December 2002 entitled “HOW THE JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH TERRORIST NETWORK OPERATES”. The report which was detailed in The Age newspaper declared Fauzi Hasbi, … He treated senior JI member Hambali as a son

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/11/1039379881285.html

 

2 years prior to the Bali bombing, Fauzi Hasbi facilitated a JI meeting in Malaysia chaired by

Hambali. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00223.htm

 

President George W. Bush: “In the last two days, we captured a major terrorist, named Hambali. He's a known killer who was a close associate of September the 11th mastermind Khalid Shaykh Muhammad. Hambali was one of the world's most lethal terrorists who is suspected of planning major terrorist operations, including that which occurred in Bali, Indonesia, and other recent attacks.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/08/20030814-2.html#

 

The Indonesian government requested access to Hambali for questioning over the Bali bombings. The Bush administration refused and he remains in US custody to this day.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/23/1066631567650.html?from=storyrhs

 

Fauzi hasbi, aka Abu jihad, was killed after he was exposed as an Indonesian intelligence agent.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00223.htm

 

Months prior to the Bali bombings John Howard’s cabinet received specific warnings of possible terrorist attacks in Bali. All specific intelligence came from this man, Omar Al-Faruq.
Australian intelligence warnings were documented in a submission to the Senate by the Office of National Assessments.

http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/fadt_ctte/

completed_inquiries/2002-04/bali/submissions/sub03.rtf

 

On 20th October, 2002, The Sydney morning herald published… It was reported yesterday that Australian defence security experts were warned of specific terrorist risks against Australians in Bali more than six weeks before the bombing. A national classified email written by a Defence Department security adviser in August said intelligence warnings indicated Bali and Australian citizens were in danger of possible attack. Defence Security Authority principal security adviser Keith Wilson wrote an email alerting military staff in Victoria and Tasmania flying to Indonesia on August 27.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/19/1034561354185.html

 

According to ICG reports, Omar Al-Faruq trained with so called Bali bombing mastermind Hambali in Afghanistan under the CIA.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/report_archive/A400845_11122002.pdf

 

Omar Faruq had also met with Indonesian intelligence agent, the late Fauzi Hasbi on the 15th of December 1999.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/report_archive/A400845_11122002.pdf

 

In June 2002, Omar al Faruq was handed over to the United States by Indonesian authorities, under the CIA's special rendition program.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1497865.htm

 

Indonesian intelligence expert, Sayed Abdullah, who operates an Indonesian intelligence firm, asserts that the CIA and the Israeli secret service… "It is clear that the CIA and the Mossad have infiltrated such organizations and have done much more than that," Sayed Abdullah, who operates an intelligence services firm in the Indonesian island of Maluku’s, told IslamOnline.net. "This is how they infiltrated the alleged Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in Indonesia," Sayed Abdullah said. The Indonesian expert argued said that "to achieve this, the CIA used one of its operatives, Omar Al-Faruq, an Arab living in the U.S. who speaks Arabic and knows a little about Islam and who was sent to Indonesia to infiltrate the so called terrorist groups.

He said that Al-Faruq initially infiltrated the Laskar Jihad, a group of Muslim volunteers fighting for the safeguard of the Maluku’s during the conflict of the Island. When the Laskar was winded down by its leader, Al-Faruq was sent to join the Mujahideen Council of Indonesia (MMI), created and headed by jailed Indonesian Islamic leader Abu Bakar Basyir, added Sayed Abdullah…………………. "After he failed to be a member of the Mujahideen Council of Indonesia (MMI) and failed to get to Basyir, he decided to work on the followers of Basyir. It is then that he came into contact with some of the Bali bombers and this is how the whole Bali operation was conducted," according to the Indonesian intelligence expert.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-04/21/article06.shtml

 

Consistent with these claims, the ICG report stated that… The hardliners within JI and the strategists of its bombing campaigns have reportedly fallen out with Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, whom they consider insufficiently radical. He and some of his closest followers were reportedly opposed to the Bali bombings.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/report_archive/A400845_11122002.pdf

 

ABU BAKAR BASHIR: The bomb that killed so many Australians was an American bomb. It wasn’t the bomb made by Amrozi and his friends. I don’t know whether the Australian government pretends not to know this - or really doesn’t know. If they don’t know, they’re stupid, but I think they’re just pretending.

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2006/s1735051.htm

 

Weeks prior to the bombings the US government threatened the president of Indonesia to secretly handover Bashir, to the CIA. In a meeting with then President Megawati Sukarnoputri a CIA agent told Megawati to handover Bashir or there would be trouble. Former US State department translator, Fred Burks, who was present at that meeting spoke out when the US government lied that they had not pressured Indonesia to handover Bashir.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/050228secretmeeting

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/indo-j13.shtml

 

Astonishingly, the Bush administration rejected Indonesia’s requests for Al-Faruq to give evidence at Bashir’s trial.

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s925069.htm

 

Al Faruq “escapes” high security prison.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1497865.htm

 

The suspects are believed to have picked the lock on their cell, changed out of their bright orange uniforms and made their way through a heavily guarded military base under the cover of night. They then crawled over a faulty wall where a getaway vehicle was apparently waiting for them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/international/asia/04escape.html?ex=1291352400&

en=24ad526cb83b3590&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 

MARK COLVIN: British troops in Iraq have killed one of al-Qaeda's most senior operatives there. Omar al Faruq has been described as the link between Osama bin Laden's terrorist organisation and Jemaah Islamiah, the group responsible for the Bali bombings of 2002 and 2005. Faruq was captured in Indonesia in 2002, but then embarrassed the US when he escaped from their prison at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan last year. He was tracked to the Iraqi city of Basra and shot dead in a pre-dawn raid by around 200 British troops.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1749500.htm

 

Coincidence?

ELIZABETH JACKSON: One of the world's most important international terror suspects has been shot dead in the Philippines. Police say the bomb-maker and Jemaah Islamiah mastermind, Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, who escaped from a Manila jail in July, was gunned down by security forces on the southern island of Mindanao. Al-Ghozi, born in Indonesia, was a senior JI member, training and supplying weapons to operatives connected to al-Qaeda.

Terrorism experts say his death bolsters the position of Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, who's now in the middle of an election campaign, however, as Toni Hassan reports, they warn that al-Ghozi will be quickly replaced as Jemaah Islamiah continues to actively recruit members across Asia. TONI HASSAN: The Philippines Military Vice Chief-of-Staff has today confirmed that Islamic militant Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi was tracked down and killed in a shoot-out with a joint police-military team in the Southern Philippines overnight. Few other details are known.

Al-Ghozi had been on the run for three months after slipping out of Manila's heavily secured police headquarters with two suspected members of the local guerrilla group, Abu Sayyaf. The escape happened at the very time Prime Minister John Howard was in the Philippines capital to discuss counter-terrorism measures. Stunning in its execution, the escape seriously embarrassed Philippines President Gloria Arroyo and her government's anti-terrorism credentials. Al-Ghozi, an Indonesian in his thirties, was a graduate of Abu Bakar Bashir's controversial Islamic school and a confessed member of Jemaah Islamiah, the terror group blamed for the nightclub bombings in Bali a year ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s965785.htm

 

A month earlier fingerprint tests invalidated Al Ghozi’s first death. His second death did not meet such scrutiny.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/09/08/941415.htm

 

One month prior to the bombings, a former Indonesian State-intelligence chief spoke out to the respected news magazine, Tempo. Former State Intelligence Coordinating Board (BAKIN) chief A.C. Manulang has said that Kuwaiti citizen Omar Al-Faruq, a terrorist suspect who was arrested in Bogor, West Java, on June 5, 2002 and handed over to the US three days later, is a CIA-recruited agent. Al Faruq was assigned to infiltrate Islamic radical groups and recruit local agents within these groups. “When Al Faruq finished his assignments, the CIA created a scenario that he had been arrested,” Manulang told Tempo News Room in Jakarta on Thursday afternoon (19/9).

Manulang made this analysis based on the pattern used by Al Faruq, that of having Kuwait citizenship but holding a Pakistani passport, entering Indonesia as a refugee and marrying an Indonesian woman. This kind of operation is aimed at starting conflicts in Indonesia and creating the image that Indonesia is a land of terrorists. (READ THIS LAST) “After the CIA obtained complete data on this matter, they then made Al-Faruq disappear.

It’s common in intelligence world,” said Manulang. Manulang said he considered several matters in the arrest of Al Faruq last July to be odd, such as the denial of National Police chief Gen. Da?i Bachtiar over the police?s involvement in Al Faruq?s arrest, and the lack of official documents in Al Faruq?s handing over to the US. ?In the handing over of a detainee to other country, there should be an announcement or deportation document· Al Faruq?s case indicated a lack of coordination between the Indonesian police and intelligence agencies,? said Manulang.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/omar_al_faruq_recruited_by_the_cia.htm

 

Prior to the Bali bombings the Indonesian government opposed America’s war on terror. The New York Times published a piece 4 days after the Bali bombings entitled, TERROR IN BALI, WARNING TO JAKARTA. ''We told them: 'Wrap it up. Block it. Demonstrate that you are serious about eliminating the threat against us,' '' the official said, declining to be any more specific about what action was expected. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A17F63D590C758DDDA90994DA404482&n=

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After the bombings the United States of America and the Republic of Indonesia released a joint statement… Agreeing that terrorism poses a continued threat to international peace and security, and that the two Presidents are committed to enhancing their bilateral cooperation in the fight against terrorism

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031022-1.html

 

ALEXANDER DOWNER: “Everybody now realised clearly that Indonesia was subject to terrorism and terrorist attacks and so there was a much greater degree of unity in the government in addressing the issue.”

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2002/s703502.htm