"Shamil Iriskhanov, a notorious terrorist from the closest company of terrorist Number One Basayev, has been destroyed in Chechnya. In the opinion of experts, federal special units are more and more closing on the circle around the leader of "irreconcilable" militants Shamil Basayev. In November, he has lost two of his closest associates. Adam Umalatov and three bodyguards were killed a week ago. Umalatov, commander of what is called the Islamic brigade Jundullah and a childhood friend of the Basayev brothers, was with them in Karabakh, Abkhazia and during the first Chechen campaign."
The Jundullah phenomenon then moved simultaneously to the Central Asian Republics and Indonesia. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) started a propaganda division, which it named as the Jundullah Productions. Before 9/11, there were many instances of attacks on Christians by Muslim extremists in Indonesia. Some of the perpetrators projected themselves as belonging to the Jundullah or Lashkar Jundullah. It was initially believed that the Lashkar Jundullah, established inSeptember, 2000 in South Sulawesi, was the militant wing of the Committee for the Enforcement of Islamic Law (Komite Penegakan Syariat Islam, KPSI ), but in its Asia Report No.43 of December11, 2002, the International Crisis Group of Brussels said that the name Jundullah was becoming confusing because "many Islamic groups operating out of Central Java, Maluku, and Sulawesi called themselves by the same name, which means "Army of Allah."
The phenomenon then spread simultaneously to Pakistan and Egypt. In 2003,the Egyptian authorities arrested 43 persons and prosecuted them before a military court on a charge of forming an underground group called the Jundullah and planning attacks on"Western targets" inEgypt. In Pakistan, the perpetrators of an unsuccessful ambush to kill Lt.Gen.Aslam Saleem Hayat, then the Corps Commander of Karachi, in the beginning of 2004 were described as cadres of the Jundullah trained by the IMU. The cadres of the Jundullah were also described as responsible for an explosion near the US Consulate in Karachi inMarch, 2006, in which one US diplomat travelling in his car was killed. The explosion took place on the eve of the visit of President George Bush to Pakistan.
On January 27,2004-- two months before the Madrid blasts and 18 months before the Londonblasts--Hossam el-Hamalawy, an Egyptian free-lance journalist, in an article drew attention to the emergence of the phenomenon of free-lancejihadis--that is, individual Muslims not belonging to any organisation, who take to jihad against the US and Israel because of their anger against their policies. His article was titled Crusaders Vs Soldiers of Allah(Jundullah). He wrote: