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...cache of explosives in the city. Sources say a suspected JI agent arrested in April confessed that he had delivered 660 lbs. to two senior JI operatives. Early analysis of the composition and design of the Marriott bomb suggests one of those operatives, Malaysian geophysicist and alleged JI bombmeister Azahari Husin, played a key role in the attack. "The momentum is still going for JI," says Mick Keelty, head of the Australian Federal Police, which has joined the investigation of the Marriott bombing. "It's almost as though we've woken a sleeping giant." --By Simon Elegant and Jason Tedjasukmana
...militant confessed to transporting into Jakarta aren't the only resource JI members have at their disposal. Indonesian police say that a suspected JI operative named Rusdi, arrested by police in April in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, has confessed that he left 300 kilograms of explosives in the hands of Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, two senior JI operatives with whom he was traveling when he was apprehended. Police believe both were instrumental in the Bali plot, with Azahari responsible for designing and assembling the main bomb. The pair managed to evade police and are still at large. Early analysis...
...With bombmakers like Azahari and Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, an Indonesian JI operative who recently escaped from a Manila jail, on the loose, Indonesians face the prospect of awful scenes of blackened bodies and pools of blood?like those broadcast in the aftermath of the Marriott bombing?becoming routine. That explosion was Indonesia's fifth in the past year (although the others were much smaller), and Jakartans are already becoming used to these disruptions. "You can die anytime and anywhere," says Leila Djafaar, a public relations officer who saw the explosion from her office window. "It's impossible to avoid...
...Alias, police say, was once a student of Azahari bin Husin, the Malaysian professor who they believe was chiefly responsible for building the Bali bombs. Azahari, the author of a JI manual on bomb building, came within a whisker of being captured by Indonesian police in early June. According to regional intelligence sources familiar with the events, Azahari and another suspect in the Bali blasts were tracked down to a town in southern Sumatra. Alerted that something was wrong when police moved in to arrest a third JI suspect in the same town, Azahari and his companion fled, escaping moments...
...Azahari's old stalking ground, UTM in the sleepy town of Skudai, served in the late 1990s as a fertile breeding ground for terror. On the surface, Azahari was a dry academic, lecturing on statistics and editing the journal of the faculty of geoinformation science and engineering. In fact, he was also a recruiter for jihad. "He met students outside the campus in the name of holding lessons on Islam," says a government source. "No one suspected anything, and it was considered a good thing." The meetings, which attendees sometimes referred to as "motivation courses," actually featured diatribes against...