Word: abuza
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...helped plot the 9/11 attacks, and he met with Mohammed in Karachi in 2001 to plan a major terrorist strike in Asia?deliberations that led to the Bali bombings. "The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed does make the role of Hambali in Southeast Asia much more important," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book about al-Qaeda in Asia. But Hambali is now clearly on the run and, according to a regional intelligence source, "that will cramp his style quite a bit." The last confirmed sighting of Hambali was in Bangkok in February 2002. Some...
...issues. Not that the authorities didn't swing into action with characteristic efficiency once the plot was uncovered. With nearly 40 alleged militants now in prison, Singapore officials insist there is no longer "any credible threat" from Jemaah Islamiah cells inside the island republic. But as terror expert Zachary Abuza points out, ultimately, a successful attack in Singapore remains top of the wish list for JI, even if achieving that takes years. "Singapore has enormous symbolic importance as the capitalist center of the region," says Abuza...
...signpost of whether the Indonesian authorities, until now regarded as the laggards in Southeast Asia's war on terror, have really changed direction. "I think the danger is that once the Indonesians find a few scapegoats, they could go back to their old ways again pretty quickly," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia...
...changed all of that, identifying America as the principle foe of Islam and urging his followers to launch attacks against U.S. civilians anywhere. By the time al-Qaeda was established in something like its present shape in the early 1990s, its message was worldwide jihad. Al-Qaeda, says Zachary Abuza of Simmons College in Massachusetts, taught the locally based terrorist groups to "talk together and network." As if to make the point, al-Qaeda's leadership has never been drawn from any one country. Bin Laden is a Saudi; his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is Egyptian. Other top al-Qaeda...
...have had trouble finding fresh blood. Notwithstanding the success of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, the RAND report argues that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were potentially an effective recruiting weapon, dealing "a massive blow to the most prominent symbols of American economic and military might." Abuza concurs, arguing that there is no better spur to recruitment than success--and the destruction of the World Trade Center counted as one. In Europe, terrorist analysts have long understood that those the RAND report calls "frustrated immigrants, drifters living on the margins of society, seekers of absolute truth or greater...