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...Indonesia, Australia The U.S. and Russia control most of the world's nuclear warheads. Those stockpiles are shrinking, but other countries are pursuing nuclear weapons Deployed nuclear weapons, in thousands 1950-2000 U.S. U.S.S.R/Russia Others...
...people do have channels coming in from the outside, you can see the people under their religious gear wearing designer jeans. But the problem is in other places, with the jihadists and the Wahhabi sect of Muslims. Oil money is now spreading through Pakistan all the way down to Indonesia, Malaysia and Africa, helping establish madrasahs. They're teaching and brainwashing kids at a very young age nothing but their version of the Koran, hand in hand with terrorism and martyrdom...
...Sept. 7, 2004, Indonesia's leading human-rights activist, Munir Said Thalib, boarded a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam to take up a scholarship at a Dutch university. But by the time the plane touched down at Schiphol, Munir was dead?poisoned, an autopsy revealed, by arsenic in his orange juice. Last week Indonesia's Supreme Court, declaring there was insufficient evidence, overturned the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto, the only suspect charged in Munir's death. Rights groups worldwide slammed the acquittal, with Human Rights Watch calling it a "failure...
...Supreme Court ruling also offers another chance for justice. Munir's supporters have always viewed Priyanto as the fall guy for a larger conspiracy to murder a man who spoke out against abuses of power by Indonesia's military and the former Suharto regime. Priyanto will walk free as early as March, after serving a two-year sentence for forging papers to get on Munir's flight. His release "could be a chance for us to determine who was really behind Munir's death and what role the intelligence services played," says Usman Hamid, coordinator of Kontras, the rights group...
...prize for his role brokering a peace between the the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government. ?He has been involved in several peace processes in his life, in Libya, the Balkan; he has a special role in Kosovo; but the main reason is the role he played in Indonesia...