Author: Wilson John
Swati Parashar/
Editor(s): Wilson John & Swati Parashar
Publisher: Observer Research Foundation
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 282
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129709988
Description
While there is adequate knowledge in governmental and non-governmental circles in India about the threats emanating from Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh, there has been little appreciation of the threats which could emerge from activities in Southeast Asia of jihadi organizations like the Jemaah Islamiyah, its linkages in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the linkages that it could develop in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in the future.
Another terrorist organization of Southeast Asia that should be of concern to India is the Abu Sayyaf of southern Philippines, which has had a long history of linkages with the Harkat-ul-Mujahiddeen of Pakistan, a founding member of Osama bin Laden’s International Islamic Front.
This volume of timely and vigorously researched analyses by experts from different countries in the region is a wakeup call to counter-terrorism policy makers in India and elsewhere to pay more attention to developments in jihadi terrorism in Southeast Asia so that any linkages that might develop can be detected and neutralized in time.
REVIEWS
So the war on terror is really a war of ideas. And, just hunting out members of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations with similar aims and goals alone will not do as there can be a steady steam of new recruits to replace those captured or killed. The recent arrests of British-born and British-educated terrorists prove that it is ideology that generates new recruits to the war on democracy and multiculturalism. The war is between a very small minority of people who believe that they alone have the Truth and would like to return to an order that existed some centuries ago and turn their backs on modern-day values of democracy, multiculturalism and religious tolerance.
-K Subrahmanyam
Leading Defence Analyst, India
Contents
EDITOR’S NOTE
PREFACE
B RAMAN
ISSUES
Terrorism in Asia: A global challenge
A N RAM
Can Terrorism be vanquished?
K SUBRAHMANYAM
Strategic context of terrorism
JASJIT SINGH
WMD terrorism: fears and reality
MATIN ZUBERI
Jihadi Terrorism
B RAMAN
Terrorism in Southeast Asia
ANTHONY L SMITH
GROUPS
Lashkar-e-Taiba
PRAVEEN SWAMI
Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami
WILSON JOHN
Hizb-ut-Tahrir
SWATI PARASHAR
Maoists
P V RAMANA
Jemaah Islamiyah
BILVEER SINGH
COUNTRIES
Singapore
KUMAR RAMAKRISHNA
India
V SURYANARAYAN
Philippines
JOSE T ALMONTE
Indonesia
AGUS WIDJOJO
Malaysia
AFIFI RASWAN DEAN
Thailand
SURAT HORACHAIKUL
Australia
CLIVE WILLIAMS
Turkey
ERSEL AYDINLI
INDEX
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS