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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Chat transcripts in Indonesia reveal al-Qaida ties By CHRIS BRUMMITT,Associated Press Writer - Tuesday, April 6 Send IM Story Print JAKARTA, Indonesia – It plays out like any ordinary chat between friends on Yahoo Messenger, but the subject matter is chilling: "thekiller" is looking to mesh his Indonesian militant network more deeply with al-Qaida in its Pakistan heartland. "Come to Pak," he is told by "SAIF-a", the Pakistani at the other end. "The seniors say, send one of your boys here to represent your group." But beware, "SAIF-a" warns. With the United States stepping up its rocket attacks, "The brothers are very worried, in Waziristan all missiles hit very accurately. It means someone inside is involved." The exchange appears in transcripts of Internet chat sessions recovered from the computer of Muhammad Jibriel, identified in the documents as the man suspected of using the screen name "thekiller". Jibriel, a 26-year-old Indonesian and well-known propagandist for al-Qaida, currently is on trial, accused of helping finance last year's twin suicide bombings at luxury hotels in his country's capital, Jakarta. He claims the transcripts are fabricated. The 40 pages of conversations are in a police dossier that provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Jemaah Islamiyah, Southeast Asia's main extremist group, suggesting it and allied networks in the region have more international links than were previously assumed. Since the chats took place, from mid to late 2008, a sustained crackdown on Southeast Asian groups has continued, resulting in the arrest of Jibriel and the execution of the man identified in the police dossier as one of his most prominent conversationalists. The chats refer to other people engaged in contact with international extremists, and experts believe such ties probably continue. "The transcripts are a wake-up call," said Sidney Jones, a leading international expert on Southeast Asian terror groups. "They show that Indonesian links to Pakistani and Middle Eastern terror groups are real and dangerous, even if limited to a few individuals." The 800-page police dossier was given to lawyers and judges involved in Jibriel's juryless trial but is not part of the indictment. It was obtained by The Associated Press from someone close to Indonesian law enforcement who requested anonymity because the disclosure is sensitive. Indonesian police would not discuss the chat sessions, or say whether any Indonesian militants had left for Pakistan since the conversations took place. The participants talk about sending money and recruits to al-Qaida. They discuss in detail the progress of a credit card fraud involving several Western banks to pay for terror activities. They refer to allied militant cells or contacts in Cairo, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The man identified as Jibriel reminisces fondly about time spent in "Kash" (Kashmir), where he says he was taught to fire sniper rifles and shoulder-held rockets. He mentions a trip he made in late 2007 to the Pakistani region of Waziristan where he met with al-Qaida and Taliban leaders, including someone called Abu Bilal al Turki, who he says was "still looking young." The chats are in a mix of Indonesian, English, Urdu and Arabic. Some of what is said seems to be in code. Slang, shorthand and "smiley face" emoticons stud the text. The communications take an extraordinary turn as they are joined by "istisyhad," identified in the police dossier as Imam Samudra, a mastermind of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing. At the time of the chats he was on death row, yet he was communicating from his cell on a smuggled laptop. The police dossier says Jibriel used several aliases to talk to Samudra, even seeking advice on his turbulent relationship with a militant sympathizer he wants to marry. At one point he asks Samudra "to pray that she and I stay strong and become a great jihad partnership." In another chat he offers to help Samudra keep in touch with al-Qaida from death row. "If you want to send an e-mail to AQ directly there, I can arrange that," he writes. Samudra was executed by firing squad in 2009. The prosecution is leaning heavily on an e-mail hacked by the FBI at the Indonesians' request in which Jibriel allegedly asks his brother in Saudi Arabia for money to finance what he claims will be the biggest attack since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and talks about giving the funds to the organizer. The reference is to the twin hotel attacks, in which seven people died. Jibriel has claimed the e-mail is fabricated, and says the same of the chats. "The police have made this up," he said, speaking to the AP through the bars of a cell before a recent court hearing. "I know about technology, and I know how easy it is to create something on a computer." Occasionally a mordant sense of humor creeps into the chatter. "Thekiller" talks with someone offering to forge an ID for him. What name would he like _ "that of an unbeliever or a Muslim"? "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," the late founder of al-Qaida in Iraq, he jokingly replies. "There is no way that will arouse suspicions." In one conversation with Samudra, "irhaab _007", another name allegedly used by Jibriel, dwells on sending recruits to Waziristan, apparently to work with al-Qaida's media wing. "I have still got my `pass' to Pakistan, his name is Muhammad Yunus," he writes. "But the big AQ (al-Qaida) guys here do not agree that everyone should leave. We have to look at our guys and choose, based on their abilities because people there don't want any hassle. "At the very least they have to be prepared to stay a long time, 2 or 3 years," he writes. Both men also talk about being asked to send sums of $1,500 to $2,000 to al-Qaida in Pakistan. Jemaah Islamiyah was formed by Indonesians after they returned home from fighting and training in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the 1980s and the 1990s. After 9/11, when al-Qaida began expanding into Southeast Asia, it used those connections to send money and expertise and to recruit volunteers, but was assumed to have largely given up after the crackdown that followed the Bali bombings. Jibriel's father is an Afghan-trained cleric accused by the United States of being a Jemaah Islamiyah leader. In the early 2000s, Jibriel and a small group of other Southeast Asians lived in the Pakistani city of Karachi, and some of them were detained on suspicion of having al-Qaida links. In Karachi, Jibriel attended a boarding school later linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani militant group accused of being behind the 2007 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people died. The Australian government, which closely watches Indonesian militant groups, has said the Southeast Asians also attended Lashkar training camps in Pakistani Kashmir when they were living in Karachi. Returning to Indonesia in 2004, Jibriel made no attempt to hide his profile. He set up a well-funded online network with content praising terrorist attacks around the world, as well as al-Qaida and Taliban propaganda videos. He also met several times with an AP reporter over the years. As he arrived at a recent trial session he was greeted by supporters brandishing their fists and praising God. To the AP, Jibriel claimed that in Karachi he knew Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed 9/11 mastermind. Yet he also revealed a love of Hollywood films and a taste for expensive Western restaurants. Throughout the chats, participants reveal the ever-present fear of infiltrating spies. "It is difficult to trust anyone. Many of our men are in jail," "thekiller" tells "SAIF-a, adding: "Even the fact a guy has memorized the Quran is no guarantee." ___ Associated Press writer Irwan Firdaus contributed to this report from Jakarta, Indonesia. 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