This Week's Islamic Massacres > Boko Haram lose 18 men in attack on Chad President; Genocide in Sudan, again

 

Attack on Chad's presidential complex

in N'Djamena leaves 19 dead

Africa

At least 19 people were killed when gunmen attacked Chad's presidential complex in the capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, according to the government. Shortly afterward, Infrastructure Minister Aziz Mahamat Saleh said the situation was "under control."

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Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno participates in his inauguration ceremony in N'djamena, Chad, May 23, 2024. © Mouta Ali, AP

Gunmen attempted to storm the presidential complex in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, sparking a battle that left 18 attackers and one security personnel member dead, the government said.

AFP reporters heard gunfire erupt near the site and saw tanks on the street, while security sources reported that armed men had tried to overrun the complex.

The government later said 19 people were killed in the fighting, of which 18 were members of the 24-strong commando unit that launched the assault.

"There were 18 dead and six injured" among the attackers "and we suffered one death and three injured, one of them seriously", government spokesman and Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah told AFP.

Hours after the shooting, Koulamallah appeared in a video posted to Facebook, surrounded by soldiers and with a gun on his belt, saying "the situation is completely under control... the destabilisation attempt was put down".

A security source said the attackers were members of the Boko Haram jihadist group, which Chadian forces are fighting in the western Lake Chad region that borders Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger.

Landlocked Chad is under military rule and faces regular attacks by Boko Haram. 

It recently ended a military accord with former colonial power France and has been accused of interfering in the conflict ravaging neighbouring Sudan.

Several security sources said that an armed commando unit opened fire inside the presidency on Wednesday evening around 7:45 pm (1845 GMT), before being overpowered by the presidential guard.

All roads leading to the presidency were blocked and tanks could be seen on the streets, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

As civilians rushed out of the city centre in cars and motorcycles, armed police were seen at several points in the district.

Hours before the fighting broke out, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno and other senior officials.

France's last Sahel bases 

The former French colony hosted France's last military bases in the region known as the Sahel, but at the end of November, Chad ended defence and security agreements with Paris, calling them "obsolete".

Around a thousand French military personnel were stationed in the country and are in the process of being withdrawn.

France was previously driven out of three Sahelian countries governed by juntas hostile to Paris -- Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Senegal and Ivory Coast have also asked France to vacate military bases on their territory.

Like father, like son 

The gunfire erupted less than two weeks after Chad held a contested general election that the government hailed as a key step towards ending military rule, but that was marked by low turnout and opposition allegations of fraud.

A call by the opposition for voters to boycott the polls left the field open for candidates aligned with the president, who was brought to power by the military in 2021 and then legitimised in a May presidential election that opposition candidates denounced as fraudulent.

Deby took power after the death of his father, who had ruled the country with an iron fist for three decades.

The desert country is an oil producer but ranked fourth from bottom in the United Nations Human Development Index.

To consolidate his grip on power, Deby has reshuffled the army, historically dominated by the Zaghawas and Gorane, his mother's ethnic group.

On the diplomatic front, he has sought new strategic partnerships, including with Russia and Hungary. 

(AFP)

U.S. declares Sudan's paramilitary and

proxy forces are committing genocide

By Darryl Coote

Sudanese people sit on a bus as they traverse the Nile River on a ferry after crossing the border from Sudan, in Abu Simbel, southern Egypt, 19 May 2023. Millions have been displaced in Sudan because of the war. File Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA-EFE

Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The United States has accused Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and proxy militias of committing genocide in the Northeast African nation's nearly 2-year-old civil war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the genocide determination Tuesday. The United States has repeatedly declared that war crimes have been committed by both warring parties in Sudan's civil war, but Blinken alleged that the RSF's systematic murder and sexual violence targeting individuals based on their ethnicity now meets the high threshold of genocide.

"The RSF and allied militias have systematically murdered men and boys -- even infants -- on an ethnic basis, and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence. Those same militias have targeted fleeing civilians, murdering innocent people escaping conflict, and prevented remaining civilians from accessing life-saving supplies," Blinken said in a statement.

The breakaway RSF and the Sudan Defense Force have been locked in a deepening and bloody civil war since April 2023, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands, the displacement of millions and the creation of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe.

The genocide determination is largely symbolic, but the U.S. Treasury accompanied Blinken's announcement with sanctions targeting Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo Mousa, leader of the RSF, as well as the paramilitary weapons supplier Abu Dharr Abdul Nabi Habiballa Ahmmed and seven related companies.

Allegations of ethnic violence have come predominantly from Sudan's Darfur province, where RSF and its aligned militias have killed thousands.

Blinken mentioned Darfur in his statement, directly implicating Mohammad Hamdan in gross human rights violations committed there, specifically the mass rape of civilians.

"The United States is committed to holding accountable those responsible for these atrocities," Blinken said.

The United States has repeatedly responded with sanctions to the civil war, which broke out following years of uncertainty in the country as it attempted to crawl toward stability after the fall of African nation's former three-decade dictator government of President Omar al-Bashir in a civilian-backed coup in 2019.

The genocide determination is the second made by the United States in Darfur this century. In September of 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell declared a genocide was being committed in Darfur province by the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed militia, which would later evolve into the RSF.

Brian Adeba, senior advisor at The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization, said the genocide determination sends "a strong message" to victims that their suffering is recognized and that justice will be pursued.

"Most importantly, the determination signals that the world is waking up to the task of holding those who commit mass atrocities accountable. This determination must be accompanied by bold and concrete action to not only hold perpetrators accountable, but also protect civilians, and support the pursuit of justice and peace in Sudan," Adeba said in a statement.

Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, similarly described Blinken's determination in a statement as an important step to identifying atrocities committed by the RSF.

"Keeping U.S. focus on holding the RSF and SAF accountable and ending this conflict must continue to be a priority as we seek to address the world's worst humanitarian crisis," he said.

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The Media is the Message > Genocide is really happening, in Sudan, but who cares?

 

Unfortunately, the poor people of Sudan don't have an elaborate global propaganda machine that spits out lies at a phenomenal pace, like Palestinians. They can only reveal bits of the truth, which, no-one in the Western media seems the least bit interested in. Is it because the perpetrators are Muslim, and they don't want the world to see Islam in its true light?

World Pays No Attention to Real Genocide in Sudan,

Focuses on Nonexistent Genocide in Gaza

MAY 15, 2024 10:00 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD

There is no genocide in Gaza. The IDF has done everything it can to minimize civilian casualties. It has dropped more than 14 million leaflets, sent six million messages, made four million telephone calls, all to warn civilians away from sites, and individual buildings — schools, mosques, apartment buildings — about to be targeted. 

Right now the IDF is trying to persuade Gazans in Rafah to leave, in order to be safe when it moves more deeply into the city. So far 100,000 Gazans have moved out of Rafah to safe sites north of the city, as indicated by the IDF, and another 300,000 are right now moving to those sites. That means 400,000 Gazans will have left Rafah in the first week, with the IDF hoping to persuade an equal number to leave Rafah within another few weeks, before it conducts its assault on Hamas combatants in the center. This is a feat that the Bidenites, of little faith, have thought couldn’t be done. Such elaborate attempts by the IDF to lead 800,000 Gazans out of Rafah to safety is no way to conduct a genocide.

Meanwhile, while nitwits on campus continue to denounce Israel

for its nonexistent “genocide,” we learn about the real “genocide” 

in the Sudan here: “UN envoy says world can’t ignore Sudan’s ‘silent war”

Independent, May 10, 2024:

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that genocide is likely to have been committed in Sudan, as the UN’s special envoy to the country has said that global indifference to the civil war has led to a “silent” conflict and famine.

Tom Perriello told The Independent that the world “simply will not engage” with Sudan despite the fact that it has been in the grip of a year-long, vicious civil war. Last April, simmering tensions between its military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, broke out into street battles in the capital, Khartoum.

Ferocious fighting has spread to other parts of the country, especially urban areas and the Darfur region. There the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that people are living off grass and peanut shells and that at least 1.7 million people are experiencing emergency levels of hunger. HRW has called for sanctions over the situation in West Darfur in a new report released on Thursday [May 10] that alleged that RSF and its allied militias are committing crimes against humanity and widespread war crimes “in the context of an ethnic cleansing campaign”.

The “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” are taking place in the context of “ethnic cleansing.” That “ethnic cleansing” in question is being carried out by Arabs against black Africans. The Arabs have not only shot dead tens of thousands of the latter, but also have been destroying their crops and livestock so that they starve to death.

Mr Perriolo(sic) said that, despite the massive humanitarian crisis, soaring death toll and horrific violence, there had only been a “brief blip” in global attention around the anniversary of the conflict last month. Otherwise, interest had died down, with devastating effect.

“Please bring more attention to Sudan so that we do not lose the momentum of the last few weeks, which is the first we’ve had in a long time,” he said….

Who cares what happens to the black Africans being slaughtered in Sudan? No Jews can be blamed, so why get upset? Those nitwits on campus have no interest in the blacks being murdered in the Sudan. Even to pay attention to them would diminish attention to the nonexistent “genocide in Gaza” and that, of course, would never do.

Meanwhile, on the nightly news channels all across America, we are daily treated to stories about “famine conditions” that are “just about” to set in in Gaza, though an actual famine never arrives. Meanwhile, hundreds of aid trucks, carrying tons of food and medicine, enter Gaza every day. There is no famine in Gaza, but only a maldistribution of food, because much of that food aid is stolen by senior officials of Hamas, both for themselves and their extended families, and also to be resold at exorbitant prices to ordinary Gazans.

Just like the news agencies, the UN has not devoted a single session to the ongoing “genocide” in Sudan. Not a single protester on an American campus has held up a single sign to deplore what is happening to black Africans at the hands of Arab murderers in Sudan. This real genocide in Sudan gets none of the attention it needs; our collective bandwidth is taken up with the false charges of “genocide” by the IDF in Gaza.

The WPF warned last week that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death across Darfur, where at least 1.7 million people are experiencing emergency levels of hunger.”

Leni Kinzli, the WFP’s regional spokesperson, said that the situation in El Fasher, in particular, is “extremely dire.”

She received photos of severely malnourished children in a camp for displaced people in Central Darfur, as well as older people “who have nothing left but skin and bones.”

“People are resorting to consuming grass and peanut shells,” she added. “Recent reports from our partners indicate that 20 children have died in recent weeks of malnutrition in that … camp.”

Is there anything like that happening in Gaza? No one in Gaza is consuming “grass and peanut shells.” And even if one were to accept the claim, now being made by so many, that several hundred thousand Gazans “will soon face” (i.e., in the near future, but not at present) famine if more food aid is not forthcoming – and it now is, with hundreds of trucks a day again entering the Strip through the reopened Kerem Shalom crossing (it had been temporarily closed after Hamas killed three IDF soldiers who were policing the crossing) and within a few days, food aid will also be offloaded onto trucks from the American-built pier. Meanwhile, unlike the situation in Gaza, tons of food aid are not entering Sudan, where 1.7 million people are already “experiencing emergency levels of hunger.”

Don’t bother us with Arabs killing and starving black Africans in Sudan. Don’t tell us about the ongoing famines in Burkina Faso and Mali and the severe malnutrition in a dozen other countries where Jews are not involved. We are fixed — fixated — on what the Jews are doing in Gaza. it’s genocide.

Islam - Current Day > The Bible on FB = blasphemy in Pakistan; War and Famine facing Christians in Sudan, again

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Pakistan: Christian charged with blasphemy for Bible verses

post on Facebook, Christian families flee their homes

JUL 10, 2023 8:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad orders the murders of people who have insulted him.

These include Abu Afak, who was over one hundred years old, and the poetess Asma bint Marwan. Abu Afak was killed in his sleep, in response to Muhammad’s question, “Who will avenge me on this scoundrel?” Similarly, Muhammad on another occasion cried out, “Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?” One of his followers, Umayr ibn Adi, went to her house that night, where he found her sleeping next to her children. The youngest, a nursing babe, was in her arms. But that didn’t stop Umayr from murdering her and the baby as well. Muhammad commended him: “You have done a great service to Allah and His Messenger, Umayr!” (Ibn Ishaq, 674-676)

Jesus never 'cancelled' his critics. He either ignored them or answered their criticisms with truth. Apparently, these weren't options available to Mohammed.

Then there was Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf. Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Sahih Bukhari, volume 5, book 59, number 369)

Christian in Pakistan Charged with Blasphemy for Bible Post

Morning Star News, July 4, 2023:

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan charged a Christian with blasphemy on Friday (June 30) after he posted Bible verses on Facebook that infuriated Muslims, causing dozens of Christian families in a village near Sargodha city to flee their homes.

Tensions flared in Chak 49 Shumaali village, Punjab Province, after 45-year-old Haroon Shahzad on Thursday (June 29) posted on his Facebook page 1 Corinthians 10:18-21, regarding food sacrificed to idols, as Muslims were beginning the four-day festival of Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), which involves slaughtering an animal and sharing the meat.

A Muslim villager took a screenshot of the post, sent it to local social media groups and accused Shahzad of disrespecting the Abrahamic tradition of animal sacrifice and likening Muslims to pagans. Eid al-Adha commemorates God providing a lamb for Abraham to sacrifice instead of his son. In the passage posted from 1 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul states that pagan sacrifices are offered to demons.

Shahzad made no comment in the post, inflammatory or otherwise, said Sargodha resident Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, a Christian and former lawmaker.

“The post began circulating in Muslim circles on Thursday, but the situation became tense after the Friday prayers when announcements were made from mosque loudspeakers asking people to gather for a protest,” Chaudhry told Morning Star News.

Chaudhry said that he and other local Christian leaders began monitoring tensions on Thursday evening (June 29) and were in contact with the district administration and police authorities. When they heard that mobs from other villages had begun gathering after the mosque announcements, they informed Sargodha District police, which sent a large contingent to protect the 250-300 Christian families in the village, he said.

“The police reached the village in time and prevented any attack on the Christians or damage to property,” Chaudhry said. “However, the police presence did not deter the mobs from raising inflammatory slogans. Fearing that the situation could get out of hand, a majority of the Christian families fled their homes, leaving everything behind.”

Chaudhry, an attorney and head of his own political party, said that Shahzad went into hiding on Thursday evening (June 29) along with his wife and six children.

“The police registered a case against Haroon on Friday under Sections 295-A and 298, under the pressure of the mobs backed by the extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan [TLP],” he said. “The FIR [First Information Report] is unwarranted, because Haroon had only shared a biblical verse and had made no personal comment that could be deemed blasphemous or inflammatory.”

Section 295-A relates to “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs” and is punishable with imprisonment of up to 10 years and fine, or both. Section 298 prescribes up to one year in prison and a fine, or both, for hurting religious sentiments….

Sudan: ‘Hundreds of thousands of Christians in the jihad-

ravaged Nuba mountains are again facing war and famine’

JUL 10, 2023 9:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)

Sudanese Christians Face Brutal Civil War

by J. Lindner, International Christian Concern, July 7, 2023:

07/07/2023 Sudan (International Christian Concern) – In mid-April 2023, two factions of the Sudan military began fighting each other, placing the civilian population, and especially Christians and members of the Nuba tribe, in great peril.

When the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, representing the Arab-Islamist Muslim Brotherhood-led Deep State of former president Omar al-Bashir, determined to absorb the mostly paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (“Hemedti”) from the eastern Darfur region, the RSF resisted, wanting to keep its paramilitary independence.

Now Darfur’s African tribes are again facing genocide at the hands of Sudan’s Arab militias. As a result, bombs fell on the predominantly Christian-populated Nuba Mountains June 12 for the first time since 2016….

Now “hundreds of thousands of war-weary Christians in the jihad-ravaged Nuba mountains—many of them genocide survivors—are again facing the specter of war and famine,” said the June 21 issue of Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin (RLPB), forcing Sudanese Christians to head south….

Islam - Current Day - Tanker Attack; Sudan Unblacklisted; Morocco-Israel Deal Condemned; Another Bali Bomber Arrested

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Terrorists attacked oil tanker at Jeddah with ‘explosives-laden boat’

14 Dec 2020 16:03

FILE PHOTO: Oil tanker BW Rhine is seen in the Straits of Singapore. © Handout via REUTERS / Hafnia

An explosion and fire aboard a Singapore oil tanker at a Saudi port was the result of a “terrorist attack,” the Ministry of Energy said, condemning the recent spate of attacks on the Kingdom’s vital infrastructure.

In a statement carried by state media, the ministry confirmed that the BW Rhine vessel was attacked by terrorists shortly after midnight local time, adding that the Singapore-flagged vessel was anchored in the fuel terminal in Jeddah when it was targeted by an “explosives-laden boat.”

The ministry confirmed that there were no casualties, reiterating an earlier statement by the ship’s operators, Hafnia, and that there had been no damage to port facilities. 

The spokesman quoted in the statement slammed the recent spate of attacks on vital Saudi infrastructure. “These acts of terrorism and vandalism, directed against vital installations, go beyond the Kingdom and its vital facilities, to the security and stability of energy supplies to the world and the global economy,” the statement reads.

The spokesman also urged world leaders to make a unified effort to tackle “subversive terrorist acts” and adopt practical measures to prevent further incidents.

Monday’s assault on an oil tanker discharging at the port of Jeddah comes after attacks on a Maltese vessel in Al-Shuqaiq and the petroleum products distribution station in north Jeddah in late November.

Sudan officially comes off U.S. blacklist of terrorism sponsors

By Don Jacobson

Sudanese celebrate during a reception for leaders of South Sudan in Khartoum, Sudan, on Nov. 15.

Sudan was removed from the U.S. blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday.

File photo by Mohammed Abu Obaid/EPA-EFE

Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The United States on Monday officially removed Sudan from its list of nations designated as state backers of terrorism, fulfilling a top goal for the African nation's transitional government.

Sudan's removal from the terrorism blacklist became official at the conclusion of a 45-day waiting period following U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's signing of a notification rescinding Sudan's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Monday marks a "historic day in the U.S.-Sudanese bilateral relationship, as Sudan's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism is officially rescinded," Pompeo said in a tweet.

"I congratulate [Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok] and the Sudanese people and look forward to building a stronger U.S.-Sudanese partnership," he said.

Sudan was first blacklisted as a sponsor of terrorism in 1993, when al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden lived there as a guest of the government.

Momentum to remove it from the list accelerated last year when an uprising ousted longtime President Omar al-Basir, who is accused of crimes against humanity stemming from the Darfur conflict, during which more than 300,000 Sudanese were killed.

President Donald Trump announced in October that Sudan would be removed from the list after it had agreed to provide compensation for the families of victims of the 1998 twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Hamdok hailed the rescinding of the designation, which he says has prevented his government from receiving debt relief and financing from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

"Today, after more than two decades, it has been announced to our people that the name of our beloved country has come out of the list of states sponsoring terrorism and our liberation from the international and global blockade into which the behavior of the ousted regime has forced us," he said in a tweet.

Responding to Pompeo's message, Hamdok wrote, "It's indeed a historic day for our bilateral relations, by which we look forward to establish meaningful partnerships to benefit our people."

I suspect there is also some change in attitude toward Israel involved in this. 

Islamist Movement Condemns Morocco-Israel Deal to Establish Relations

The movement called on Moroccans to protest the move and “confront it” with all means

By Safaa Kasraoui -

Dec 14, 2020

Rabat – Islamist movement the Justice and Spirituality Movement (Al Adl Wal Ihssan) issued a press release on Friday to condemn Morocco’s decision to establish diplomatic relaions with Israel.

Describing the move as “incalculable,” the banned movement said it strongly condemns “the decision to normalize [ties] taken by the Moroccan authority with the Zionist entity that usurped the land of Palestine.”

The movement said the decision contradicts the historical and current position of the Moroccan people, who support Palestinians and their full right to return to their homes as well as their independence.

If Palestinians returned to their historical home they would be in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Morocco.

“We call on our people to reject the [Moroccan decision] and confront it and work to bring it down by all available peaceful means.”

The Islamist movement’s statement comes a few days after King Mohammed VI announced Morocco will establish diplomatic relations with Israel as soon as possible.

The decision followed a call with US President Donald Trump, who informed the monarch that his country recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara.

Observers and activists saw the statement from Al Adl Wal Ihssan condemning normalization with Israel as an offense to Morocco’s sovereign decision, criticizing the Islamist movement’s silence during the Guerguerat development.

Some of them questioned why the Islamist movement did not issue a press release to condemn Polisario’s move after it caused a blockade of the Guerguerat border crossing point for over three weeks.

Moroccan movements, associations, and press expressed solidarity with the Royal Armed Forces, who acted on November 13 to secure the flow of goods and people in the region.

Morocco has banned the movement’s activities and prevented it from political participation due to what the government calls its antagonistic approach towards the Moroccan government. 

The anti-monarchy movement claims to support democracy of the state but refuses to participate in elections, considering them undemocratic.

I wonder what their model of democracy looks like? Pretty weird, I'll bet.

Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine, a former teacher and the late spiritual guide of the group, founded the movement in the 1980s.

The Islamist movement was also active during the most notable protests in Morocco, including the Arab Spring protests in 2011 and the 2016-2017 Hirak Rif protests in the Al Hoceima province in northern Morocco.

Indonesian Police Arrest Top Islamist Militant Linked To Bali Bombings

by SANJAY BHAGAT, AzadHindNews

on DECEMBER 14, 2020 

Jemaah Islamiah’s stated aim is to build an Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia.

Zulkarnaen, one of the commanders of the Bali attack, was arrested on Thursday by anti-terrorism police, spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan said in a statement on Saturday.

He said the officers met no resistance.

Reuters was unable to reach Zulkarnaen or find out whether he had any legal representation. According to a UN Security Council report, he also goes by the name Aris Sumarsono. 

Zulkarnaen is believed to have been involved in making the bombs that were used in the Bali attacks and in the 2003 bombing of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 people.

Jemaah Islamiah’s former leader Para Wijayanto was arrested in 2019.