Terrorism is necessarily rooted in religion and is international in character

Part 5 of a series

CAMP Hudaibiyah was far from Abubakar, and it was so named because it was controlled by Indonesian jihadists who trained local extremist groups in Mindanao. the basic demolition training course, including making bombs, improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and the useof mortar shells, trinitrotoluene (TNT) and chemical mix. According to Abraham, my interviewee, who was sent to train there by his Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) handlers at Camp Abubakar, the Indonesian trainers were Umar Patek, Ustadz Bashir and Ustadz Sulaiman. They both spoke a combination of Tagalog, Maranao, Maguindanao, English and Arabic. Umar Patek was one of the Bali bombers (2000) who had returned to find sanctuary in Mindanao.