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...Riduan Isamuddin, who effectively assumed al-Faruq's responsibilities in southeast Asia after the latter's arrest, was himself captured by Thai police and the CIA on Aug. 11 in a tiny apartment an hour north of Bangkok. But Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, appears to have required far less pressure than al-Faruq. Regional intelligence officials have told Time that Hambali began to talk openly about his terror activities shortly after he was taken to an undisclosed location to face u.s. interrogators. One of the key revelations: Hambali told the interrogators that his replacement in the network is Azahari...
...ASIA Terror: Hambali's heir apparent North Korea: Kim's next move South Korea: Reunification...
...Hambali's capture was a serious setback for JI, but the prospect of his replacement by Azahari is hardly comforting. "Azahari was put through the most senior level training courses in Afghanistan," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Asia. "He is charismatic. He has the ability to recruit. He's a very accomplished bomb maker. And his fingerprints are already all over [JI's biggest operations...
...Regional intelligence officials believe, however, that Azahari is inheriting a terror network that has in some ways been compromised. Patiently constructed by Hambali in the 1990s, the organization has long been characterized by its array of largely autonomous terrorist cells?a structure that enabled the top tier of JI leaders to remain at a safe distance from the foot soldiers. That structure, say intelligence officials, has now effectively collapsed because so many of JI's leaders have been arrested in the wake of the Bali bombing. As a result, senior figures who remain at large are forced increasingly to deal...
...also becoming tougher for JI to find safe havens across the region. In 2002, Hambali held a planning meeting in Bangkok at which he issued the order to bomb "soft targets"; now, with the arrest in Thailand of Hambali and two suspected senior lieutenants, Zubair Mohamed and Li-Li, the perception of the country as a place where terrorists can lie low has been shattered. "They're on the run," says a Western diplomat in Bangkok. "The question is what they're capable of given all the obstacles they now face...