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The group's founder, Abu Bakar Basyir, is the reputed spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah and is currently serving 15 years in prison for setting up a jihadi training camp in Aceh province.
Its spiritual leader, Abu Bakar Basyir, is behind bars, as are many of the organisation's operatives, most notably Hambali, allegedly the group's operations chief.
However, the United States, Malaysia and Singapore, which has arrested dozens of people in a crackdown on what it says is a South-East Asian terror network, have been pressing Indonesia to get tougher on Islamic activists (for more on South-East Asia's militant groups, click here).In particular, they have wanted to see the arrest of Abu Bakar Bashir, the Muslim cleric who leads Jemaah Islamiyah.
INDONESIAN prosecutors and anti-terrorism officials spent nearly a decade trying to put away Abu Bakar Basyir, so they didn't much mind waiting an additional four hours and 45 minutes on Thursday.
The worst rains in a decade have pummelled 28 Chinese provinces and regions this year.Police in Indonesia arrested Abu Bakar Basyir for the third time.
Hours earlier, Bakar Hamdan, a senior Hamas member, was killed by missiles fired from helicopter gunships in Khan Younis, also in Gaza.
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This month six senior TTP leaders announced that they had declared their allegiance to IS's "caliph", Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi.As for al-Qaeda, the terrorist group now in competition with IS for leadership of the global jihad movement, it is attempting to shore up its position in Pakistan, where American drones have killed many of its leaders.
Three other suspects in the Bali bombing are on trial, as is JI's alleged spiritual leader, Abu Bakar Basyir, who has been implicated in several terrorist attacks, but not, so far, the one in Bali.
So far, it is true, Indonesian prosecutors are struggling to prove that JI even exists, let alone that Abu Bakar Basyir, a radical cleric, leads it though that might change when detained terrorists in Malaysia and Singapore give evidence in Mr Basyir's trial, by teleconference.
And on Friday, Australia's foreign minister, Alexander Downer, on a visit to Jakarta, said Indonesian police had received a telephone text-message shortly before the bombing, threatening attacks on western embassies if JI's alleged leader, Abu Bakar Basyir, was not freed from detention.
Much more significant is the case of Abu Bakar Basyir, the alleged leader of the regional terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiah (JI), who is in detention on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities, including the Bali and Marriott bombings.
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