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...parallels between the two attempts underline just how vulnerable airliners remain, says Zachary Abuza, a terror expert who teaches at Simmons College in Boston, Mass. "The amount of explosive you need is really very small," Abuza notes. "It doesn't take much to bring a plane down. And the return is huge. They are targeting the global economy and this remains a huge way to make a dent very quickly by disrupting business and tourism." He and other experts warn that bombs on airplanes will always remain one of the most tempting targets for terrorists, who have killed almost...
...Hambali was arrested in Thailand in 2003 and is in U.S. custody.) As J.I.'s chief strategist, and as a charismatic recruiter, Nurdin is more dangerous than Azahari, says Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the International Crisis Group. What's more, adds terrorism expert Zachary Abuza of the United States Institute of Peace, Azahari has been passing his skills to a new generation of bombmakers who will be "only too eager to show their skills and avenge their teacher's death." Indeed, last Friday security forces found a videotape with instructions in bombmaking at a Semarang...
...away. The owners of restaurants at Jimbaran Bay say that when they reopen in a month or so, the popular eating strip will have security cameras and guards checking cars and their occupants. But with large numbers of young Indonesians ready to sacrifice their lives for Islam, says Zachary Abuza, who has authored several books on Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia, such measures may prove pointless: "When you are willing to die with a bomb that will fit in a backpack, targets like the Jimbaran restaurants are basically undefendable...
...Experts like Abuza warn that there are plenty of young militants willing to take up this fight for an Islamic state in the region. Ironically, he notes, small-scale attacks by suicide bombers like the ones in Bali may be a side-effect of earlier police successes against extremists. After the first Bali bombings, police across Southeast Asia began a crackdown on Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the network of militants blamed for that attack. More than 300 alleged militants were arrested, including many top J.I. leaders. But by crippling much of the network's upper echelons, police have created a more...
...blame. Angered by state repression and fearful of militant reprisals, Muslims are unwilling to volunteer information to military and civilian authorities, who in turn are reluctant to share it with one another. So far, no weapons caches or bomb factories have been found. "The intelligence record is dismal," says Abuza...