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...that the bombs may have been made on the 18th floor of the Marriott where they found - and defused - a device on Friday afternoon. "This was very well-planned and it would be really hard to protect against this kind of attack," says terrorism expert and security consultant Ken Conboy...
...body with no head or feet had been found. The news station reported that another headless body was found in the Ritz-Carlton, also operated by an American hotel chain and with the same Indonesian owner. "The bombs could have been on timers or strapped to suicide bombers," says Conboy, author of The Second Front, an examination of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a homegrown, regional terrorist network with ties to al-Qaeda. "If they were suicide bombers it was most likely the work of religious radicals or Jemaah Islamiah ... the hotel security really screwed...
...Waiting for this to happen has been like watching a slow-motion train wreck," says Ken Conboy, author of The Second Front: Inside Asia's Most Dangerous Terrorist Network. "They should have limited their exposure...
...message of global jihad. "The recruiters are good at brainwashing disoriented people and finding their weaknesses," says Azyumardi. Naivet? is also a factor. "Many of the recruits are simple village boys, and 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...
...week that a group of 23 Indonesians were believed to be back in the country after training at a camp belonging to regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) in the Philippines. "The combination of these events may have been enough to force the embassy to take action," says Ken Conboy, a Jakarta-based security consultant and author of a forthcoming book...