Islam, Pesantren and Terrorism from an Inside Perspective

Athens, Friday, April 27, 2007. As a journalist reporting on Islamic terrorism in Indonesia, Nur Huda Ismail has unique insight and access to the terrorists themselves. In his teens, he was a student at the notorious Islamic boarding school (pesantren) known as Ngruki, alma mater of several members of the terrorist group Jamaah Islamiyah, and was roommates with one of the Bali bombers convicted in the first terrorist attack of 2002.

Huda was a special correspondent for the Washington Post's Jakarta bureau from 2003-2004, and a research analyst at the Institute of Defense & Security Studies of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2005. In addition, he is a British Chevening scholar on International Security Studies at St. Andrews University, UK, and is a leading authority on terrorism in Southeast Asia. He was recently featured in the new PBS documentary, Struggle for The Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia.

See Noor Huda Ismail’s works at: An Indonesian's Prison Memoir Takes Holy War into Cyberspace http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62095-2004Dec13?language=printer
His Blog http://noorhudaismail.blogspot.com/
Women who marry terrorists and join the global jihad http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060307.E03