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...attacks are far more ominous than these determinedly stoic reactions might suggest. What they demonstrate is that something fundamental has changed?that the terror threat, both in Indonesia and beyond, has mutated into a new and more elusive creature that may be far harder to combat. In 2002, the operation involved more than a dozen individuals who spent months and tens of thousands of dollars assembling nearly a ton of explosives. This time, police speculate that only six plotters, including the suicide bombers, may have been involved. Their equipment? A few sticks of TNT, some sacks of ball-bearings, nine...
...During a Bangkok terror summit in 2002, J.I.'s then-operations chief, Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali, now in U.S. custody), ordered Azahari and Nurdin to plan attacks on "soft" Western targets in Indonesia, according to a J.I. member who was present and who is now under house arrest in Malaysia. Since then, the two have eluded Indonesia's largest ever manhunt. Azahari, whom captured accomplices have testified has a habit of accompanying his bombers to within a few hundred meters of their targets, has had no less than six breathtakingly narrow escapes from arrest over three years...
...just Indonesia that's vulnerable to this force of malleable recruits. Some of them are already being dispatched from Indonesia to help fellow militants in neighboring countries. A Malaysian security official told TIME that three Indonesian militants arrested on June 9 in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah revealed to interrogators that they were intending to die as suicide bombers in the Philippines' troubled, Muslim-majority south. A senior Philippine security official has told TIME that after the arrest of militant Abdullah Sunata on July 2 in Indonesia, the authorities recovered e-mails between Sunata and Umar Patek, a fellow...
...Manila are engaged in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), the main group of Islamic insurgents on Mindanao. According to regional and Western security officials, parts of Mindanao, possibly outside the M.I.L.F's purview, serve as critical training and refuge areas for Islamic militants, primarily from Indonesia but also from Central Asia and the Middle East. On Friday, a M.I.L.F. spokesman told reporters that Dul Matin, an al-Qaeda-trained electronics expert suspected of playing a pivotal role in constructing the bombs for the 2002 Bali attacks, is on Mindanao, but not as a guest...
...this has a cumulative effect on Asia. So far, the threat of radical Islam in the region is confined to Indonesia and the Philippines. (In southern Thailand, the issue, for now, is Muslim disaffection with the central government in Bangkok.) Through decisive action?arrests and effective gathering and sharing of intelligence?the Malaysian and Singaporean governments have dismantled the terrorist infrastructures in their countries. But the extremists can use Indonesia and the Philippines as launchpads to strike at neighboring nations...