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...Davao attack proves that terrorists are still out there, and as dangerous as ever. Despite the crackdown around Southeast Asia since late 2001, some very troubling characters remain at large, including Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, JI's operational commander; Saifullah Yunos, a.k.a. Muklis, leader of a JI cell; and Azahari bin Husin, allegedly the man who designed the Bali bombs. And those are just the most wanted?a roster that doesn't include members of sleeper cells that may be lying in wait across the region. What's more, a U.S.-led war in Iraq could be a powerful rallying...
...Laden in Afghanistan during a three-year stay there. In the confession, a copy of which TIME has seen, Mukhlas says he believes the $25,000 that he and other plotters were given for the Bali operation by Riduan Isamuddin, J.I.'s operations chief also known as Hambali, may have originally come from bin Laden. Bali investigators are also looking into the possibility that a hardened al-Qaeda operative named Syafullah--a Yemeni who entered Indonesia on a fake U.S. visa--may have been in charge of mixing the chemicals used in the bombs. Mukhlas says that he, Hambali...
...recruiting a group to conduct surveillance of possible targets for terrorist strikes. According to Singaporean police, Mukhlas employed his relatives. One of those arrested in January 2000 was Hashim bin Abbas, his brother-in-law. The team's plans were foiled when a group of Islamic radicals associated with Hambali botched a bank robbery in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Two of them were killed, and one was captured. Astonished Malaysian police began piecing together the world of militant Islam. More raids and arrests followed, and these led police to the Sungei Tiram madrasah, which was shut down...
Mukhlas, forewarned, had fled back to Tenggulun. In late 2001, according to police and intelligence officials, he and Hambali traveled to Afghanistan. It is not clear if Mukhlas was at the meeting in Thailand at which Hambali announced his soft-targets strategy. But regional intelligence officials say they are certain that Hambali soon handed over day-to-day control over JI's terrorist operations to Mukhlas. "Hambali was too well known," a Malaysian official says. "He could still give orders, but he had to get out of the region...
Mukhlas and Hambali, says Rohan Gunaratna, author of a leading work on al-Qaeda, are similar in style. "They are both very experienced operatives who speak little but demonstrate their thinking through action." They share a ruthlessness in delegating the most dangerous jobs to subordinates, friends or family. Among the 19 killed by the 15 bombs that went off in Jakarta on Dec. 24, 2000, were three of Hambali's own men. Regional intelligence officials believe that Mukhlas was intimately involved in conceiving and planning the Bali attack, although he appears to have delegated operational authority to Samudra...