Al Qaeda, Made in Madiun?

A son of a remote village near Madiun has been arrested in the Philippines. He is accused of being a member of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network.

January 30, 2001

His age is just 30. His level of education is reasonable. More than a decade ago, he was a student at the Al Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Ngruki, Sukoharjo Regency, Central Java. He has also studied religion in Lahore, Pakistan, on the doorstep of Afghanistan. Apart from his ability to speak Indonesian and English, he also knows Tagalog, the main indigenous language of the Philippines. And that is not all. It appears he also speaks fluen

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