Bashir was &quot;militant group chief&quot;
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firebrand preacher was head of Jemaah Islamiah, a militant group seen as the Southeast Asian arm of al Qaeda. Abbas, a Malaysian who claims to have been a Jemaah Islamiah instructor at a camp in the southern Philippines.
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Alleged Southeast Asian extremist chief Abu Bakar Bashir on Thursday accused police of arresting him on orders of President Bush, and dismissed terror charges against him as &quot;laughable.
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In Indonesia, the crumbling prosecution case against alleged terror leader Abu Bakar Bashir has gotten a boost. A confessed senior member of the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah gave a detailed account of how
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Indonesian prosecutors will file terror  charges against Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir next week,  accusing him of leading the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah  militant network, the attorney general's office said on Friday.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 29 -- The man named by Pakistani officials as the chief organizer of Benazir Bhutto's assassination is a widely feared tribal commander at the vanguard of efforts by extremist groups to draw Pakistan deeper into their insurgent campaign.
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JAKARTA - Indonesian prosecutors on Friday formally charged militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with involvement in a suicide bombing at Jakarta&#39;s JW Marriott hotel.
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Iraq&#39;s most wanted militant has pledged his loyalty to Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, according to a message posted Sunday on Islamist Web sites.
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The suspects in the alleged New York airport terror plot have ties to the leader of a violent militant Islamist group
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Militant Muslim preacher Abu Bakar Bashir is set to face charges of involvement in terror crimes, including last year's bombing of a luxury hotel in the Indonesian capital, police said on Tuesday.
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A fundamentalist Muslim who is listed by the U.S. State Department as a suspected al-Qaida collaborator was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia&#039;s capital.
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Indonesian prosecutors say it is too early to link radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to the Australian embassy bombing. However, they confirmed Bashir had been charged over the 2003 deadly car bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.
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A senior witness in the trial of Indnoesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir has backed prosecution claims that he headed a radical Islamist group.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT: The highest-ranking Iraqi leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was captured July 4 and told interrogators that Osama bin Laden's inner circle wields considerable influence over the Iraqi group.
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An Iraqi militant group said it had  assassinated the chief of police in the northern Iraqi city of  Arbil and threatened to kill Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani,  according to an Internet statement posted on Sunday.
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A militant group linked to former Palestinian governing party Fatah threatens to kill leaders of political rival. Hamas.
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Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged head of Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, is being wrongfully held and should be released, his lawyers said, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Indonesian prosecutors' bid to link cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to Jemaah Islamiyah took a step forward when a confessed senior member of the extremist group identified the elderly preacher as its leader.