TERRORISM
The Splinter Group from Cirebon

The Cirebon suicide bomber is suspected to be of a small group of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir sympathizers. They are scattered around the country.

April 27, 2011

WITH a rumpled face, Abdul Gofur seemed dazed and confused as he walked across the yard of the Kanoman Grand Mosque in Cirebon, last Thursday. The father of Muhammad Syarif Astanagari, the bomber who blew himself up at the Az-Zikra Mosque, Cirebon, said that he is under stress because of his deceased son’s misdeed. The 65-year-old suddenly found himself with mountains of tasks; from burial of his son, answering questions from relatives, to poli

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