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...professor and diplomatic history expert at the University of Tokyo, says the government "long ago decided that its hold on power will be more secure if it stays away from the military question." And the U.S. guaranteed Japan's security, with its own bases scattered around the archipelago, tens of thousands of soldiers in South Korea and, until 1992, major installations in the Philippines...
...also groups once considered to be, no matter how dangerous, simply local insurgencies. In the late '90s through the middle of 2001, JI engaged in several terrorist acts, including the bombing of the Philippine ambassador to Indonesia in August 2000; a spate of church bombings across the Indonesian archipelago in late 2000; and a series of bombings in Manila in December 2000. There was a method to all this madness. The assassination attempt on the Philippine ambassador was a "thank you" from JI to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for providing training camps in Philippine territory it controlled...
...published six years ago in Harper's magazine. He tries to define a purpose for himself as a novelist in a society in which "the rising waters of electronic culture have made each reader and each writer an island." He finds in fiction the hope of signaling across the archipelago...
...Filipinos need no reminding that they are squarely in the sights of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), and the presence of U.S. troops may have made the archipelago an even more tempting target. A year ago, an explosion rocked the Metro Railway Transit, killing 22 and injuring hundreds of others. The attack was carried out by Indonesian Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, a self-confessed JI member with links to the Philippines' two major Islamic guerrilla groups, the MILF and the Abu Sayyaf. After his January capture in Manila, al-Ghozi said he carried out the bombings on the orders of JI operations...
...week acknowledged that al-Qaeda is active on Indonesian soil, granted intelligence authorities the power to interrogate suspected terrorists without proof of wrongdoing and finally placed Ba'asyir under arrest. But the Bali attacks suggest it may be too late to prevent al-Qaeda from making the vast Indonesian archipelago a new sanctuary. "We've been talking with them for a long time about the seriousness of the problem," Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, a former ambassador to Indonesia, told TIME. "There's obviously a lot more to do, and maybe this will serve as a wake-up call...