Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir (born August 17, 1938 in East Java ) is an Indonesian Islamist .
Together with Abdullah Sungkar, he founded the Pondok Ngruki Association in 1973 . In 1978 both were arrested as members of the Jihad Command . After their release, they fled to Johor, Malaysia . In 1993, Abu Bakar Bashir and Abdullah Sungkar founded the Islamist terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah . After Sungkar's death in 1999, Bashir took over the spiritual leadership of the group, but had to give up his power to younger members at an early age. He also founded the Rabitatul Mujahidin (1999) and the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (2000).
Bashir was suspected of being involved in planning both the 2002 attacks in Bali and the 2003 attack on the Jakarta Marriott Hotel . The court found on March 3, 2005 that he was involved in the plot to plot the Bali attacks, but not the Marriott attack, and sentenced him to only 30 months in prison. He was released in June 2006 for good conduct.
In 2008 he founded the Islamist organization Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT).
On August 9, 2010, he was arrested by members of the Densus 88 special unit - Bashir was accused of being associated with a new extremist group in Aceh province .
In June 2011 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for assisting a terrorist training camp.
Web links
- "Profile: Abu Bakar Ba'asyir" , BBC (accessed August 9, 2010)
- "Bashir to face Bali charges" ( Memento from October 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), ABC (accessed August 9, 2010)
- "A chilling message for the infidels" ( Memento of October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), The First Post (accessed on August 9, 2010)
- "Bali bomb cleric freed from jail" , BBC (accessed August 9, 2010)
- "Bashir's release a cause of great pain: Howard" , The Age
- Teslik, Lee Hudson. Profiles: Abu Bakar Bashir (aka Ba'asyir) - Council on Foreign Relations , June 14, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ Islamist leaders arrested in Indonesia
- ↑ Radical preacher Bashir sentenced to imprisonment in: Spiegel Online from June 16, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abu Bakar Bashir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indonesian religious leader and Islamist terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Java |