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...Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi's mother remembers the day she discovered that her first-born son had changed. Fathur, who was arrested in the Philippines two weeks ago for allegedly devising bombs to be used in terrorist attacks, was 13 years old and studying at an Islamic boarding school three hours from his village in east Java. "I brought him his favorite food," says Rukhanah, a 58-year-old wearing a traditional white Islamic headdress. "But he politely told me that he was fasting, even though it wasn't during the fasting month. I cried then, feeling proud...
...Whether Rukhanah's son got true piety is uncertain, but he did pick up a 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...
...fresh one, uncovered by police in the region only in the wake of Sept. 11 and the rout of the Taliban and the recovery of al-Qaeda documents in Afghanistan. When five bombs were detonated across Manila on Dec. 30, 2000?which the police now blame on Fathur?no one knew who was responsible or what was the motive. One theory at the time held that the bombings were an attempted coup by the Philippine military. Now Southeast Asian leaders say an al-Qaeda-like organization has sprung up, with the vague but familiar goals of attacking American targets...