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...deadly trade: a bombing spree he purportedly planned in Manila 13 months ago killed 22 people and injured 80. The school in the east Java town of Ngruki, near Solo, where Fathur got his brand of religion was founded by Abubakar Ba'asyir, a 64-year-old Islamic cleric. Police in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines believe Abubakar is the leader of a network of terrorist cells called Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian version of al-Qaeda with possible links to Osama bin Laden's group. Abubakar was not at the school while Fathur was studying there; he had fled...
...Indonesia, unlike its neighbors, seems to be going easy on suspected terrorist organizations. Abubakar continues to live his normal life, teaching at the same school where Fathur studied in the 1980s. Last week, Indonesian police called the white-bearded cleric to Jakarta for questioning. After two days of what his lawyer described as "gentle" interrogation, Abubakar was allowed to return home. He denies he preaches terrorism and says he has no links with al-Qaeda, although he told reporters that he "praises the struggle of Osama bin Laden ... in fighting the arrogance of the terrorist United States." His lawyers...
JOHN DANFORTH Cleric, ex-Mo. Sen. takes himself out. But is it a big head fake? Bushies still want...
...last October, his spirits and those of the country were riding high. After 32 years of Suharto's dictatorship and 17 months of interim rule by Suharto's deputy B.J. Habibie, Indonesia was finally getting a reformist President who preached tolerance and democratic openness. But as the blind Muslim cleric and his family mounted the palace steps, a cry rang out. A dukun--a Javanese soothsayer--who habitually accompanies Wahid called the party to a halt. He said he could see the "big man," the spirit of Suharto, standing in the doorway at the top of the steps. He insisted...
...they need new answers to these old questions. Even old-line radicals like Mohammed Mousavi Khoeiniha, the man who green-lighted the student takeover of the U.S. embassy 21 years ago, are pushing for a new vision of Iranian democracy. During a rare interview over tea and caramels, the cleric explains that "the country must be based on a democratic foundation accepted by the people." To make that happen, Iran's conservatives are loosening up--a bit. Islamic courts are allowing limited coverage of proceedings--most notably in the trial of 13 Jewish Iranians accused of spying for Israel. Despite...