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...SEIZED. 900 KG OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, more than twice the amount used in last October's Bali bombings, along with 160 kg of TNT, 1,700 detonators, two M-16s and 20,000 rounds of ammunition; in Semarang and Jakarta, Indonesia. Police say Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the terror outfit accused of the Bali blasts, was planning to use the explosives for attacks in the country. Nine suspected JI members have also been arrested...
Southeast Asia is crisscrossed with the footprints of foreigners who went there with the glorious dream of ruling a kingdom in the forest, like the hero of a Conrad tale. Most of them end up hustling condos in Phuket or Bali, or eventually head home for a real job. Warwick Purser, a tall, lanky, ginger-color man from Sydney, has made the dream a reality. Seven years ago, when the peripatetic entrepreneur established Out of Asia, Indonesia's largest exporter of handcrafted goods, he set up shop in the village of Tembi, half an hour's drive from Yogyakarta. Today...
...Despite his good works, Purser is not purely an idealist. He's also a shrewd businessman. He first saw Indonesia during a 1968 honeymoon in Bali. He stayed for 12 years, starting a guide service that grew into Pacto, which, he says, "was and is the largest travel company in the Republic of Indonesia," with a staff of 500. When the government changed the law, prohibiting foreigners from owning businesses in that sector of tourism, Purser accepted a job with the U.N. Development Program and served a stint as director general of tourism in Vanuatu...
...Thailand's arrest of three Thai nationals in June and a Singaporean in May sent a chill through the country's balmy resort towns?police alleged the men were part of a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist cell planning to commit Bali-style bombings in the tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Although the accused are in jail awaiting trial, a senior Thai intelligence source says the danger has not passed. An unidentified Thai believed to have planned the attacks remains at large and may still be able to carry them out. "We busted one cell but we know there...
...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...