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...CONVICTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the Bali nightclub bombings in October 2002 that killed 202 people, by a five-judge panel, in Jakarta. Abubakar was, at the same time, cleared of terror charges related to the August 2003 bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12, and the more serious charges of directing the Bali attack. Sen-tenced to 30 months in prison, he was given credit for the 10 months...
CONVICTED. ABU BAKAR BASHIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terrorism group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the October 2002 attacks in a Bali nightclub that killed 202; by a five-judge panel in Jakarta. At the same time, Bashir was cleared of terrorism charges related to the August 2003 bombing of a Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 12, and the more serious charge of directing the Bali attacks. Sentenced to 30 months in prison, he was given credit for the 10 months he had already...
...Afghanistan run by al-Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf has returned to its original goal: establishing an Islamic state through jihad. According to Philippine and regional intelligence sources, Janjalani is strengthening ties with not just M.N.L.F. rebels but also Jemaah Islamiah, the network of Islamic militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings and which regional security officials say is al-Qaeda's proxy in Southeast Asia. "The ferry bombing was the worst terrorist attack in Asia after Bali," points out Zachary Abuza, author of Tentacles of Terror, a book on al-Qaeda's influence in Southeast Asia. "Now we have Valentine...
...Other places bear the same taint. In Sri Lanka and the Maldives, businesses have watched tourists disappear and dollars dry up. Even Bali, more than 4,300 km away from the hardest hit Indonesian province of Aceh, has seen canceled bookings. At an emergency summit of the World Tourism Organization in Phuket early this month, Secretary General Francesco Frangialli called the cancellations in the region "irrational." Speaking to delegates from around the globe, he urged governments to take swift action to get the tourists back "in order to alleviate the suffering of the affected populations...
...proportions," but that was an understatement - the tragedy was quintessentially international. Europe and the entire world watched the disaster unfold on television and the Internet - images that inevitably brought to mind the Bali terrorist bombing of 2002 - and slowly came to grips with the scope of the catastrophe. "It was awful," said Astrid von Sternheim, 27, as she waited at Frankfurt Airport for her parents Werner and Diana to arrive from Patong Beach in Phuket. "We saw the pictures on television and recognized the street and the hotels." Her parents survived because they happened to be on an upper floor...