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...Indonesian authorities currently hold 33 suspected JI members in custody. Other high-profile actions in the country include the start of the trial of JI's alleged spiritual leader Abubakar Ba'asyir, and the capture of Abu Rusdan, the man police believe to be his successor. But police and intelligence sources warn sternly against complacency. "Many thought the arrest of the Bali bombers was the end of terrorism here, but I see the opposite," says Anysaad Mbai, who heads Indonesia's Coordinating Board on Counterterrorism. "Many key figures are still out there, and they are the most dangerous...
Perhaps the most encouraging development of detained Muslim cleric and alleged Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Abubakar Ba'asyir's first day in court last Wednesday was what happened outside of it: nothing. Only a handful of curious passersby peeked into the Bureau of Meteorology and Geophysics in North Jakarta, where the proceedings are being held. Security was conspicuously light; police were armed only with batons. Abubakar, who maintains his innocence, sat impassively as prosecutors read out the four charges against him: treason, plotting to assassinate the President and two immigration violations...
...Aziz (also known as Ammar al-Baluchi), a nephew of captured al-Qaeda operations boss Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and first cousin of 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef, was arrested with a higher-ranking al-Qaeda lieutenant, Walid Ba 'Attash, aka "Khallad" or Tawfiq Bin Attash an Osama bin Laden intimate who is believed to have organized the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen...
...album, Drums of Passion, the first African drumming collection recorded in stereo in a U.S. studio, set off a wave of African-jazz fusion in the 1960s; of diabetes; in Salinas, Calif. Carlos Santana's first single, Jingo, was a remake of the Olatunji number Jin-Go-Lo-Ba...
...Saddam strove to overcome those disgraces by using Iraq's vast oil wealth to build the Arabs a formidable military machine. His rule was the product of a nationalist ideology that sought to liberate the Arab world by brutally controlling its people: Iraq's ruling Ba'ath party was founded in 1947 to promote an Arab renaissance throughout the Middle East. Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran...