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...fact that its major strikes since 9/11 (before Tuesday's attack) had been directed at tourists and foreign workers in Bali, Tunisia, Kenya and Pakistan suggest the going has been tough for al-Qaeda and its sympathizers. Hundreds of operatives have been arrested in 98 countries through intensified intelligence cooperation between the U.S. and its European, Arab and Asian allies. Sources of funding have been squeezed, and enhanced security in Western countries has foiled a number of attacks in Europe and rendered the operational environment in the industrialized world considerably more perilous...
...Just last year, the detention and trial of a fundamentalist leader like Abubakar would have been cause for mass protests and clashes between security forces and Islamic radicals. It was fear of that Muslim backlash that had kept President Megawati Sukarnoputri from arresting Abubakar before the Bali bombings, despite repeated requests from Singaporean and Malaysian authorities. The gruesome toll of those strikes last October, as well as nifty police work that has netted 47 suspected terrorists, appears to have convinced most Indonesians to shun radical Islam...
...Police reports seen by TIME lay out some of the successful investigative methods Indonesian police have employed in tracking and collaring members of the group. Many of the JI arrests police have made since Bali were made possible by mobile-phone tracking technology - a vulnerability JI senior leaders warned of on April 7, one suspect told interrogators, when members were told to "strictly limit the use of their cell phones." The JI leadership apparently couldn't take its own advice, allowing Indonesian police to begin a rolling series of arrests by leapfrogging from one suspect to another through logged calls...
CHARGED. AMROZI, 39; with involvement in the October 2002 Bali bombings; in Denpasar, Indonesia. State prosecutors said the East Java native bought bombmaking materials and the vehicle used in the blasts that killed 202 people. Last November, Amrozi was the first of the Bali suspects to be caught. (At a press conference after his arrest, he told police, "I am a naughty person.") Since then police have arrested 28 others, including Amrozi's brothers Ali Ghufron and Ali Imron. Amrozi's trial is scheduled to begin on May 12 under new Indonesian antiterrorism laws that carry a maximum sentence...
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