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...Asia--allegedly masterminded a string of terrorist attacks, including last October's nightclub bombings in Bali and the bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta this month. Two weeks ago, Hambali moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Ayutthaya, Thailand, a tranquil, mainly Buddhist town one hour outside Bangkok. He may have hoped to lie low for a while--and, perhaps, plot his next lethal strike. Earlier this year Hambali's former boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed--once the No. 3 official in al-Qaeda and now in custody--told interrogators he had given Hambali about...
...longer a problem," Bush said. The President didn't know just how relieved he should be. On Saturday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Hambali had been plotting new terrorist attacks, possibly in October, when Bush and others would be attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Bangkok...
...Riduan Isamuddin, who effectively assumed al-Faruq's responsibilities in southeast Asia after the latter's arrest, was himself captured by Thai police and the CIA on Aug. 11 in a tiny apartment an hour north of Bangkok. But Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, appears to have required far less pressure than al-Faruq. Regional intelligence officials have told Time that Hambali began to talk openly about his terror activities shortly after he was taken to an undisclosed location to face u.s. interrogators. One of the key revelations: Hambali told the interrogators that his replacement in the network is Azahari...
...also becoming tougher for JI to find safe havens across the region. In 2002, Hambali held a planning meeting in Bangkok at which he issued the order to bomb "soft targets"; now, with the arrest in Thailand of Hambali and two suspected senior lieutenants, Zubair Mohamed and Li-Li, the perception of the country as a place where terrorists can lie low has been shattered. "They're on the run," says a Western diplomat in Bangkok. "The question is what they're capable of given all the obstacles they now face...
That's the crime, or one of them anyway. Our sleuth is a low-grade Bangkok detective named Sonchai Jitpleecheep. Jitpleecheep is a devout Buddhist, and his firm belief in reincarnation and the transience of the physical world colors every aspect of his investigation. "We do not look on death the way you do, farang," he tells us, using the Thai word for foreigner. "Would you be sorry about a sunset?" Jitpleecheep is also half American and half Thai, which makes him uniquely qualified to understand both the tourists lured by the promise of sex, money, drugs and contraband jade...