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Militants attended terror training in Philippines, Malaysia
Jakarta, July 03: Dozens of Muslim militants have crisscrossed Asia visiting terror training camps and learning how to use guns and make bombs, a member of an al-Qaeda-linked regional Islamic group testified today.
Jemaah Islamiyah has also been accused of carrying out the October 12 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Like three detained militants who testified from Singapore last week, Abdurrahman told the court that Bashir, 64, was the head of Jemaah Islamiyah.
Witnesses in Indonesia have failed to implicate
Bashir.
Abdurrahman said he was in charge of logistics within
the Malaysian branch of Jemaah Islamiyah and had dispatched
between 20 and 30 militants to the Southern Philippines and
Afghanistan in the late 1990s. "They were trained how to fire
guns and make bombs," he said.
Bureau Report