Whether western intelligence agencies are bent on causing mayhem in Indonesia.

Cleric Abu Bakar Bashir of the Al Mukmin Islamic Boarding School, known as Ngruki, in Central Java, said that the recent Jakarta bombings at the JW Marriot and Ritz Carlton were clearly carried out with the help of foreign intelligence agencies, like the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Although admitting that certain hardline Islamic groups were involved Bashir said these men were only the tools of the CIA, whose mission was to destroy Islam by ruining its image and turning Muslims against each other.

They will do anything they can to weaken Islam, including acts like this.

As evidence for CIA involvement Bashir noted the ease with which the bombers were able to enter the two hotels repeatedly while carrying materials for making bombs. gatra

Irfan S Awwas, a leader of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), an organisation which Bashir once led, also believes that the CIA is involved, but working in tandem with their best-friends-forever from Israel, Mossad.

Irfan S Awwas

The attacks had no connection with Islam, Awwas said, and he was convinced of a foreign conspiracy because at the time of the Marriott bombing there was a meeting of important western businessmen going on.

While just before the bombing of the Hotel Marriott Jakarta the last time, in 2003, a gathering of 21 CIA operatives took place nearby. Therefore such so-called terrorist attacks were usually preceded by meetings of westerners, proof of a conspiracy, he said. jakartapress

Considering at least the possibility that western intelligence agencies are behind the attacks also occurs in mainstream circles, like the weekly magazine Gatra, where an article about the jihadi footsoldiers of the Mega Kuningan bombings ends with the question: gatra

Who was behind these men in the field? Is it true that it’s western intelligence agencies?