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...back doors of houses minutes before police arrived, and he was once waved on by a policeman who had stopped to check motorcyclists leaving a bombing site; the officer failed to recognize Azahari. The string of narrow misses continued on Friday when police in East Java, across the Bali Strait, said they had likewise missed capturing Nurdin by a few hours. According to local press reports, police were certain of his whereabouts but waited several hours before raiding the house because they were "worried he was armed with explosives." This record of failures illustrates a key problem facing Indonesia...
...people like Nurdin can win them over with incredible speed," says Jakarta-based terrorism expert Ken Conboy. He notes that captured accomplices told police that two recent recruits were so raw that they had to be taught to drive before they could carry out missions in Jakarta and Bali...
...critical training and refuge areas for Islamic militants, primarily from Indonesia but also from Central Asia and the Middle East. On Friday, a M.I.L.F. spokesman told reporters that Dul Matin, an al-Qaeda-trained electronics expert suspected of playing a pivotal role in constructing the bombs for the 2002 Bali attacks, is on Mindanao, but not as a guest of the M.I.L.F.; the U.S. is offering a bounty of $10 million for Dul Matin, making him Washington's third-most-wanted terrorist after Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's Iraq boss, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. With seasoned leaders like...
...Still, in Bali last week, life went on. Locals decked out in their finest clothes?colorful sarongs, snowy-white jackets, gold woven headscarves?flocked to the island's beaches at sunset to celebrate their most important festival, Galungan. It's a day when the Balinese recall the legendary victory of Dharma over Adharma, of good over evil. But even as they lit their festive candles and covered the beach with baskets of flowers, it was hard to forget the blood that had so recently been spilled on these same sands?and tempting to wonder if evil has once again regained...
...investigation into the Oct. 1 Bali bombings may lead to arrests and high-profile trials. But that will not stop the terrorism. In fact, Asia's vulnerability is likely to grow...