Fed: Indon group has little ability to carry out attacks

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2006
Fed: Indon group has little ability to carry out attacks

An American think tank has brushed off the Indonesian militant leader who claimed to
have sent suicide bombers to attack Jewish targets in Australia and other parts of the
world.

Stratfor .. a private sector intelligence group .. says SUAIB DIDU doesn't have the
capacity to carry out his threats.

DIDU is a self-styled leader of the ASEAN Muslim Youth Movement and claimed to have
sent 217 suicide bombers to various parts of the world to avenge Israeli attacks against
the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

His targets reportedly also included Jewish facilities in Britain .. the United States
.. and possibly Australia.

Stratfor says DIDU has made similar threats before .. but has never staged an attack
against any Western institutions in Indonesia.

Following the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 .. he also claimed to have sent more
than three thousand volunteers to fight with the Taliban.

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