Word: abuza
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...with additional economic and military aid to fight militants. Bush, it seems, was drumming in the simplest of lessons: unwavering support for Washington's campaign pays handsomely. Still, even if stunts like parading Refke for the TV cameras were partly aimed at "the White House press corps," as Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book about Islamic militants in Southeast Asia, says, Refke's arrest might also mark a genuine watershed in Manila's antiterror efforts...
...been captured," an interrogator wrote. "All the group's savings has been lost to raids and arrests," Hambali claimed. J.I. had been virtually "destroyed." Many intelligence officials and analysts disagree, saying J.I. has been wounded but remains extremely dangerous. Hambali was probably "trying to steer his interrogators," argues Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia, "trying to make them feel complacent." Of the assertions Hambali made to his jailers, his assessments of J.I.'s powers were the ones they were least likely to trust. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Andrew Perrin/Bangkok, Nelly Sindayen/Manila and Jason...
...when or where the plot would have taken place. And while it is unlikely that Hambali knows the precise coordinates of bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, there is a chance he has been in recent contact with them, perhaps via email, says Zachary Abuza, a terrorism expert at Simmons College in Boston. If Hambali cooperates, he could also help investigators unlock some mysteries of the 9/11 plot. The U.S. believes that he helped Zacarias Moussaoui, the Moroccan-French operative charged with being the intended "20th hijacker," enroll in flight school in the U.S. And intelligence officials think...
...when he is believed to have orchestrated a series of church bombings in eight cities in Indonesia, killing 19. After 9/11, Hambali's profile inside al-Qaeda rose when bin Laden ordered him to launch attacks in Southeast Asia to distract U.S. forces from their assault in Afghanistan, says Abuza. Early last year Hambali met with his lieutenants in Thailand and instructed them to attack soft targets--restaurants, bars and nightclubs frequented by Western tourists. Nine months later, Jemaah Islamiah detonated two bombs at two nightclubs in Bali, killing 202 people, many of them young Australian tourists...
...Hambali's capture was a serious setback for JI, but the prospect of his replacement by Azahari is hardly comforting. "Azahari was put through the most senior level training courses in Afghanistan," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Asia. "He is charismatic. He has the ability to recruit. He's a very accomplished bomb maker. And his fingerprints are already all over [JI's biggest operations...