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Riduan Isamuddin (also transliterated as Riduan Isamudin, Riduan Isomuddin, and Riduan Isomudin, better known by the nom de guerre Hambali, born as Encep Nurjaman, born April 4, 1966) was the leader of Indonesian terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which is allegedly has a partership with Al Qaeda.1 Hambali's Ambitions
Hambali may have been far up in al-Qaeda's operations in Southeast Asia. He was often described as "the Osama bin Laden of Southeast Asia". Some media reports describe him as Bin Laden's lieutenant for Southeast Asian operations. Other reports describe him as an independent peer.
Hambali was a close friend of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who planned Operation Bojinka, September 11 Terrorist Attacks and the Bali nightclub bombings.
Hambali invisioned a large IslamCairo Egypt Islm (In Arabic: , "submission (to God)"; In Persian and Urdu: ) is a monotheistic faith and the world's second-largest religion. Followers of Islam, known as Muslims believe that God (or, in Arabic, Allh revealed His Will to Muhammad (c.ic caliphate across Southeast Asia. His planned caliphate would include Indonesia, MalaysiaThe Federation of Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. It consists of two geographical regions divided by the South China Sea: Peninsular Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula is bordered to the north by Thailand and to the south by Singapore; East Malaysia, SingaporeThe Republic of Singapore ( Chinese , pinyin: Xinjiapo Gonghegu Malay Republik Singapura Tamil , Cingkappur Kudiyarasu , is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, at latitude 1°17'35"N longitude 103°51'20"E, situated on the southern tip of Malay Peninsul, BruneiThe Sultanate of Brunei more commonly referred to as Brunei Darussalam or simply Brunei is an oil-rich country located on the island of Borneo, in southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by Malaysia., CambodiaThe Kingdom of Cambodia (Kampuchea, Khmer ) is a country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered in the south by the Gulf of Thailand, in the west by Thailand, Laos in the north, and Vietnam in the east. The majority of Cambodians are the Khmer people. Cambodia, and parts of the Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, and northern Australia. It would have created a large Islamic superpower. The CIA World Factbook stated that Hambali's state would have had 420 million people. The United States population, which numbers in 280 million, is less than about three quarters of the population of Hambali's envisioned state. The amount of men that are able to be in the military would have numbered about 75 million.
Hambali's state would also have a strangle-hold over the South China Sea shipping lanes which are a gateway between parts of Asia and the Indian Ocean. This would also give the state a significant hold in air-space. This would affect trade between India, Africa, and Australia.
2 Early life
Riduan Isamuddin was born Encep Nurjaman in the rice belt of Pamokolan , a small town in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. He was the son of a peasant farmer, and was the second of eleven children. He got involved with Jemaah Islamiah as a teenager. He was a very studious student at his Islamic high school, Al-I?anah. He travelled to Afghanistan in the 1983 to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Over his three year course of being a mujahideen, which lasted from 1987 to 1990, he fought the Soviets and met Osama bin Laden. Most of his friends and family back home did not know what he was doing.
