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Osama bin Laden's photo adorns sentry posts along the road into Poso, with the words “jihad post” scrawled on the wooden walls. Above them fly flags bearing Arabic calligraphy and sometimes the image of a sword. Inside them the occupants may well be asleep. But a few weeks ago it was not like that. Traffic was stopped at checkpoint after checkpoint mounted by armed Muslims, carrying out ID checks. The identity card that all Indonesians must carry states their religion. There were reports of summary abductions and executions when that religion turned out to be Christian. Full Story