[Reuters/Washington Post] Ahmad Pathoni - More than 200 Islamic militants from Southeast Asia have been sent on suicide bombing missions to attack Israel's interests and countries that support the Jewish state, Suaib Didu, chairman of the Jakarta-based ASEAN Muslim Youth Movement, said on Friday. Didu said more than 3,000 people had signed up for the mission and that 217 people from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore had been dispatched abroad so far, many of whom were veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
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