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Terrorist organisations in Asia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Terrorist organisations in Asia (175 words) |
 | There are a number of terrorist organisations active in and based on the Asian continent. |
| They have strong links with what was effectively a state terrorist government in Afghanistan, the Taliban, prior to its overthrow in the wake of US military intervention. |
| The group were responsible for the sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995 in which 12 people were killed. |
| Jemaah Islamiyah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (893 words) |
| Jemaah Islamiyah, sometimes rendered Jemaah Islamiah, is a militant Islamic terrorist organization dedicated to the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy in Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and the south of Thailand and the Philippines. |
| Jemaah Islamiyah is thought to have killed hundreds of civilians and is suspected of having executed the Bali car bombing on October 12, 2002 in which suicide bombers killed 202 people and wounded many in a nightclub. |
| A bomb manual published by the Jemaah Islamiyah was used in the 2002 Bali terrorist bombing and the 2003 JW Marriott hotel bombing. |
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