Indonesia’s National Police Declare War on Hardline Islamic Group
December 10 shootout under question as an ambush
Indonesia’s National Police, long believed to have abetted the creation of the thuggish Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) as an underground force to carry out extrajudicial tasks against police targets, clearly have decided the organization has outgrown its usefulness and are cracking down violently.
The FPI’s leader, Rizieq Shihab, returned from exile in No…
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