Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid or Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (literally ''Helpers of

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Congregation'', abbreviated as JAT) is a splinter cell of the

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(JI) designated as a

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by the United Nations and the United States. The latter is most known for perpetrating the 2002 Bali bombings along with Dr. Azahari and Noordin M. Top, both

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terrorist kingpin.

History

Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid was formed by

Abu Bakar Baasyir Abu Bakar Ba'asyir ( ; ar, أبو بكر باعشير, ʾAbū Bakr Bāʿašīr; ; ; born 17 August 1938) also known as Abu Bakar Bashir, Abdus Somad, and Ustad Abu ("Teacher Abu") is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of Jamaah Ansharut Tau ...

on 27 July 2008 in

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, Java, Indonesia and has bases across

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including in

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and

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. In September 2011, a JAT suicide bomber detonated explosives in a central Java church, killing himself and wounding dozens of others.CNN, Indonesian group added to U.S. terror list, By Jamie Crawford, http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/indonesian-group-added-to-u-s-terror-list/ On March 18, 2012, at least one of five armed men killed by Indonesian counter-terrorist forces in Bali was said to be a member of JAT. The men were killed while awaiting the arrival of prostitutes at a local hotel. In 2012, the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations placed sanctions on the organization and named it as a terrorist group. In 2012, the group was thought to have approximately 1,500–2,000 members. The group remained very active in Indonesia in 2012, and it publicly maintained a website, as of January 2013.

's son,

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was said to be JAT's PR Chairman and had worked for

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in Afghanistan in 2002. In August 2014, the group suffered a split over Abu Bakar Baasyir's

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ( ar, أبو بكر البغدادي, ʾAbū Bakr al-Baḡdādī; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali Muhammad al-Badri al-Samarrai ( ar, إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد البدري السامرائي, ʾIb ...

, leader of the

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(ISIS).Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, The Perpetual threat, Chris Rottenberg, Osgood Center for International Studies, 2012,http://www.osgoodcenter.org/PDF/JAT.pdf Many members of the group, including top leaders, and Baasyir's sons reportedly disagreed with this decision over ideological reasons and left to form a new group called

Jamaah Ansharusy Syariah Jamaah Ansharusy Syariah ( ar, جماعة أنصار الشريعة, literally ''Community of'' the ''Helpers of Sharia,'' JAS) is an Islamist organization split from Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (literally ''Community of the'' ''Helpers of Tawhid,'' J ...

, led by Mochammad Achwan.

References

{{Authority control Rebel groups in Indonesia Islamic terrorism in Indonesia Jemaah Islamiyah Organizations designated as terrorist by the United States