The latter is most known for perpetrating the 2002 Bali bombings along with Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohammad Top, both Malaysian terrorist kingpin.
[3] In September 2011, a JAT suicide bomber detonated explosives in a central Java church, killing himself and wounding dozens of others.
[4] On March 18, 2012, at least one of five armed men killed by Indonesian counter-terrorist forces in Bali was said to be a member of JAT.
[6] In 2012, the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations placed sanctions on the organization and named it as a terrorist group.
[9] Abu Bakar Baasyir's son, Abdul Rohim Ba'asyir was said to be JAT's PR Chairman and had worked for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2002.