Friday, September 16, 2005

The Emir: An Interview with Abu Bakar Ba�asyir, Alleged Leader of the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah Organization

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369782
Scott Atran
"In this interview, the alleged terrorist leader Abu Bakar Ba’asyir provides his justification for waging jihad against the West. He also explains the calculus of suicide bombers and discusses his interpretation of Islam concerning war and infidels. Despite accusations that he is head of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist organization and has planned the most lethal terrorist attacks in Southeast Asia, Ba’asyir has only been convicted on conspiracy charges in the 2002 attack on a Bali nightclub that killed 202 people."