Mujahideen Division Khandaq is a terrorist group that has only claimed one attack in its history, the August 2000 bombing of the Filipino ambassador's residence in Jakarta, Indonesia. Two people were killed in the explosion and twenty one were injured, including the ambassador, who was assumed to be the target of the attack.<br /><p><br />Initially, the professional quality of the bomb led Indonesian and Filipino authorities to lay blame on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). MILF and ASG representatives denied involvement, as is their custom, even for attacks that they were known to have perpetrated. However, the fact that nearly all MILF and ASG attacks occurred in the Philippines suggests that the perpetrator of the attack was neither of these groups. Furthermore, MILF's chairman was known to be a close friend of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid.<br /><p><br />Evidence also pointed towards loyalists of former Indonesian President Suharto, who was undergoing a corruption investigation at the time. These militants were responsible for the attempted bombing of the Indonesian Attorney General's office with an explosive similar to the one believed to have been used in the embassy attack.<br /><p><br />Two days after the attack, the Mujahideen Division Khandaq issued its claim, in which it asserted that the attack was executed as a show of "solidarity" to Muslim rebels in Mindanao (a province in the Philippines), who had been battling a renewed offensive by Filipino security forces for the last three months. Mujahideen Division Khandaq claimed to be a splinter group of MILF based in Kuala Lumpur, though this was rejected by a MILF spokesperson shortly after the attack. It is likely Mujahideen Division Khandaq sympathizes with the MILF cause but has no formal connection to the group. The invocation of "khandaq" in the group's name could be a reference to the historical Battle of Khandaq (Battle of the Trench), during which early Muslims living in Medina successfully withstood attack from a coalition of Jewish and Arab tribes that numbered more than three times their size. It is possible to draw a rough analogy between this battle and the struggle of Muslim separatists fighting Filipino security forces in Mindanao.<br />