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...senior al-Qaeda officials, Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had ordered him to "plan large-scale attacks against U.S. interests in Indonesia, Malaysia, [the] Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia. In particular," the document continues, "[al-]Faruq prepared a plan to conduct simultaneous car/truck bomb attacks against U.S. embassies in the region to take place on or near" the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Faruq said that, despite his arrest, backup operatives were in place to "assume responsibilities to carry out operations as planned." If successfully executed, such a coordinated assault could produce...
...Southeast Asia and is active in at least five countries--Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. The CIA report states that Abubakar Ba'asyir, 64, the cleric who is the alleged spiritual leader of JI, "authorized Faruq to use JI operatives and resources to conduct" the embassy bombings planned for last week; al-Faruq told the CIA that Ba'asyir dispatched a JI member named Abu al-Furkan to oversee a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Malaysia. Al-Faruq said Ba'asyir was also behind a 1999 bombing of Jakarta's largest mosque and then blamed Christians...
...hosted Zacarias Moussaoui--currently on trial in the U.S. for conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks--during Moussaoui's swing through Malaysia in 2000. According to the source, Moussaoui went by the alias "John" and told the operative to buy four tons of fertilizer, presumably to build a bomb. Moussaoui left the country before giving any further instructions on what to do with the fertilizer...
...staked out the city-state's Changi Airport, a U.S. naval vessel, chemical plants and a bar popular with U.S. military personnel. The suspects were all Singaporeans, members of the militant group Jemaah Islamiah. In the Philippines, a jailed Indonesian operative of Jemaah Islamiah told police of plans to bomb Western targets as part of a war to form an Islamic state. NORTH & SOUTH KOREA Only Connect The two countries began work on reconnecting two railways across their sealed border, in a symbolic step that Seoul said would "lay a bridge of reconciliation." Ceremonies to mark the start of construction...
...evidence indicting the Iraqi government as a grave threat to American and world security—including links to terrorists such as the now-deceased Abu Nidal and terror groups such as al Qaeda, known stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, reports from Iraq’s former bomb-maker that its scientists could be months away from producing a nuclear weapon, Hussein’s gassing of the Kurds, his wanton slaughter of Iraqi dissidents and civilians, his firing at U.S. and British planes patrolling the “no fly” zones, his agents’ attempt...