Canberra: More than 200 South-east Asian suicide bombers have been dispatched around the world with a mission to attack Jewish interests in countries that support Israel, The Australian quoted a radical Jakarta-based organisation as saying on Friday.
These countries include Britain, US and possibly Australia, said the newspaper.
The newspaper said Asian Muslim Youth Movement (AMYM), a radical Jakarta-based organisation, gave details of the plot on Thursday.
The AMYM claimed it was being funded in part with cash donations from two unnamed Australian-Indonesian businessmen.
The leader of the organisation, Suaib Bidu, warned that thousands more jihadis were preparing to join the resistance against Israel and die as "martyrs."
He said a "passing-out" ceremony for more than 3,000 jihadis would be held on Saturday in the Indonesian city of Pontianak on the large northern island of Kalimantan.
While about 200 would be sent immediately to targets aboard, the remainder will be active supporters.
Bidu warned that his group would "monitor" the position of Australia towards Israel's current military operation in Lebanon, and that it too could become a target for suicide attacks.
"We have a lot of support, including in Australia, from people who don't believe Israel's attack on Hezbollah is just," Bidu was quoted as saying.
He said the group has already sent 217 suicide bombers, including 72 Indonesians as well as citizens of six other South-East Asian nations, to Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
The AMYM has allegedly threatened to attack US interests in Jakarta in the past and has sent fighters to the conflicts in Bosnia and Chechnya, according to the newspaper.
About 40 per cent of the AMYM recruits have military experience in countries including Afghanistan, Thailand, Philippines, Palestine and Iraq, said the newspaper.
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