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...morphing due to increased police pressure (the smaller bombs used on Oct. 1 may be the result of less funding, for example, or stricter security), one aspect of the picture hasn't changed: authorities still believe that the terrorism linchpins in the region are 48-year-old Malaysian statistician Azahari bin Husin and his former student Nurdin Mohammed Top, 37. They are suspected of playing key roles as planners and bombmakers in the 2002 Bali blasts, the August 2003 bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel, the September 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in the capital...
...During a Bangkok terror summit in 2002, J.I.'s then-operations chief, Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali, now in U.S. custody), ordered Azahari and Nurdin to plan attacks on "soft" Western targets in Indonesia, according to a J.I. member who was present and who is now under house arrest in Malaysia. Since then, the two have eluded Indonesia's largest ever manhunt. Azahari, whom captured accomplices have testified has a habit of accompanying his bombers to within a few hundred meters of their targets, has had no less than six breathtakingly narrow escapes from arrest over three years...
...Along with luck and formidable bombmaking abilities, Azahari and Nurdin, once colleagues in the geophysics department of an obscure Malaysian university, have one other critical talent?the ability to convince young men to sacrifice their lives in the name of Islam. Azyumardi Azra, a moderate Islamic scholar and rector of the State Islamic University in Jakarta, argues that a combination of poverty, the speed of societal change since the fall of dictator Suharto in 1998, and the Western military presence in Iraq, has left many young Muslims alienated and receptive to the message of global jihad. "The recruiters are good...
...Mindanao, but not as a guest of the M.I.L.F.; the U.S. is offering a bounty of $10 million for Dul Matin, making him Washington's third-most-wanted terrorist after Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's Iraq boss, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. With seasoned leaders like Dul Matin, Azahari and Nurdin on the loose and with a new generation of volunteers at their service, there is little doubt that more attacks can be expected...
...terrorism experts suspect they were carried out by a group associated with Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional network of Islamic militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings. Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based JI expert with the International Crisis Group, speculates that a faction led by fugitive Malaysian bombmaker Azahari bin Husin and his countryman Nordin bin Top may be to blame. Says Jones: "We recently received information that Azahari had started a new special forces group called the Thoisah Moqatilah." The group, says Jones, has apparently split from JI's mainstream elements, which oppose violence. It has attracted younger, more...