21 Quotes by Rohan Gunaratna

No other groups can carry out multiple attacks like that.

It is more advanced than training. It is almost like doing the operation so that when they go to the real operational theater, they will be a hundred percent confident.

Our prediction is Thailand will become like Mindanao in the next five years unless the Thai government takes decisive steps to control and contain the local insurgency.

Some groups have deep linkage, others minor linkages. Some were established a long time ago, others recently. But they are more dangerous as a movement, and have a much wider reach.

I was brought in for questioning on Friday but beyond that there is no issue at all. I want to stress that our relationship with the police is still very good.

We haven't even started to think about this issue. But natural disasters shape leaders.

Both the government now in power, and the previous government, have not taken this threat seriously and as a result we have seen this deep escalation in the more recent past.

And you also need people to maintain the safe houses, the communication, to procure the equipment and the chemicals, and also to prepare the devices, and finally to transport the devices and the bombers to the target location.

The terrorists' aim is to embarrass and humiliate the government of Indonesia.