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25 March 2009
OBJECTIVES/ 8:02:00 PM In essence, JI has a jihadist vision and wants to establish an Islamist state in the region, probably encompassing Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. Group factions differ over how to achieve this goal: A minority group, led by Hambali, is interested in focusing on a broader anti-Western agenda similar to al Qaeda, and in effecting change in the near term….Opposing this faction is a majority group within JI, depicted as the "bureaucrats," that sees these tactics as undermining its preferred, longer term strategy of building up military capacity and using religious proselytization to create a mass base sufficient to support an Islamic revolution. |
