SOLO Indonesia, Oct 23 Kyodo scho...

SOLO Indonesia, Oct 23 Kyodo

scholars at Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding place of education in Indonesia's Central Java town of Solo make no effort to conceal their anger through the recent arrest of their teacher Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged leader of an Islamic militant group

however the students are tightlipped when asked whether they intend to react violently if conduct authorities insist on taking their hospitalized leader to Jakarta one time his condition permits.

''What we do is single to study. Only God knows what will happen,'' said Ahmad Muhni, 18 who gave a similar answer as other learners at the school founded from Bashir in 1972.

Bashir has lengthy been suspected by the United States and Indonesia's neighboring countries of being a leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a arrange with alleged links to the al-Qaida terrorist network l through Osama bin Laden.

Last week, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono fingered him, along with three other Indonesians, as a senior member of the assign places to which seeks to establish a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia in consequence of armed revolt.

Bashir has been laying sick in hospital in Solo since last Friday, the same day before his arrest in connection with a string of bombings in the nation in 2000 and an alleged plat to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Since then, dozens of learners have been taking turn guarding Bashir in fore-rank of his hospital room and around the building itself.

centurys of students staged a ''show of force'' Sunday through jogging in front of the hospital as centurys of police looked on.

His arrest has widely been seen at residence as the product of foreign squeezing especially from the U.S., onward Indonesia to crack down forward Islamic militancy following the Oct 12 Bali bombing that killed at least 190 populace mostly Australians and other foreigners.

Islamic organizations have criticized the actuate saying the charges against Bashir were based forward intelligence reports that were not backed up according to solid evidence.

a certain quantity of countries, including Australia, have accused al-Qaida of being behind the discotheque bombing forward the Indonesian resort island.

''The U knows our teacher is not really a terrorist yet it seeks any excuse to pres for his arrest because he publicly gives his honest opinion about what the U actually is,'' Muhni said.

Bashir argues that the U and Israel ''are the real terrorists,'' and that the U has an agenda to fight Islam around the world as Islam has become its main enemy since the fall of communism.

He has unruffled suggested the Central Intelligence Agency was behind the Bali bombing.

''He is absolutely not guilty. What he has done is a noble work because he is trying to correct the society laden with a moral crisis,'' said Ahmad Syaifullah, 18 another scholar of the school.

''But we will...accept his detention if the police come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind proper procedures and can display a legal proof to back their accusations,'' Syaifullah added.

as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but Muhni and Syaifullah are among 2002 close examiners in Al-Mukmin, which means ''faithful'' in English. Of the close examiners 60% are males coming from various provinces in Indonesia.

The place of education was initially suspected by about media to be a terrorist training camp.

It came into the limelight after Faturohman al-Ghozi, who graduated from the teach in 1995, was arrested in Manila in January for his alleged involvement in a series of bombings in the Philippines in December 2000

''We are lay open Since January this year, foreign journalists from around the world have been constantly visiting the school'' substitute schoolmaster Wahyuddin said.

''A journalist formerly went to the rooftop and sneaked into an unused lavatory to search for a possible hiding place or subterranean tunnel for a sly training place,'' he said.

Of 52 hours of classroom tasks in a week, almost half are used for in the same state [i]or[/i] condition classes as mathematics, history and natural science, Wadhyuddin said.

scholars aged between 12 and 25 start their activities at 4 a.m.

in the morning with an obligation to perform five times a day prayer and Koranic readings besides their classroom activities until 10 pm

Many of the pupils were seen wearing T-shirts with pictures of bin Laden and words underneath saying ''He is not a terrorist, he is just a warrior.''

Bashir was conveneed for questioning in Jakarta forward Saturday, but he collapsed Friday while holding a pres conference

The arrest was made a not many hours after the government announced it had issued extremity antiterrorism regulations, a week after the deadly bombing at the Sari sodality discotheque on Bali.

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