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...most likely target for those future attacks is now unquestionably Jakarta's much diminished expatriate community, which has been alarmed by a series of increasingly shrill warnings from Western embassies about the impending threat. An ever-growing security clampdown now sees most hotels, and some shopping malls, guarded by groups of machine-gun-toting soldiers and officials who frisk pedestrians and subject entering vehicles to detailed examinations that include a sweep of the chassis with flashlight and mirror-equipped poles. Some of the city's most popular expat watering holes?such as the usually packed BATS at the Shangri...
...same infrastructure they had in Afghanistan," says Willis. "A lot of it has just moved east. They continue to recruit from the young impressionable men in the area." U.S. military intelligence believes that al-Qaeda has built the new camps intentionally small so as not to provoke a clampdown from Pakistan's government...
Israel calls its latest siege of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound "Operation Matter of Time," but for Washington it was a matter of bad timing. The return of Israeli tanks and bulldozers to the compound, and a West Bank-wide clampdown, appears to have earned the Palestinian leader a temporary reprieve from the mounting challenge to his diktat within his own Fatah organization. Of even more immediate concern to the Bush administration was the return of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis to the top of the agenda of Arab governments and of the UN Security Council - at a moment when Washington...
...access to tens of millions of dollars in secretly managed investments - estimated to be worth somewhere between $30 million and $300 million. Al Qaeda's coffers have always been filled by a lot more than Osama bin Laden's personal fortune, and the report estimates that even after the clampdown following September 11, the network's annual income from private donations continues to run to at least $16 million a year. That's why the U.N. panel investigating terror funding is urging closer scrutiny of charities suspected of diverting funds to Bin Laden's organization, and stricter financial and border...
...panel notes that in response to the international body's clampdown, bin Laden's pursers have converted considerable amounts of cash held in banks into gold and diamonds, as well as moving it through the underworld 'hawala' networks that make it almost impossible to trace...