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Restrictions on Harvard sponsorship of travel to countries with the strongest State Department warnings, such as Haiti, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, will remain in place...
After the 2002 bombings, Indonesia arrested several foot soldiers of the conspiracy and sentenced a prominent cleric to a short prison term for inspiring the attack. (The CIA caught the plot leader in Thailand in 2003.) Jakarta, however, has not been able to capture two key plotters: Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, among the chief operatives of Jemaah Islamiah, a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda. The two are also suspects in subsequent attacks in Jakarta, on the Marriott Hotel in 2003 and the Australian embassy a year later, which killed a total of 23. Azahari is allegedly...
...information that Azahari had started a new special forces group called the Thoisah Moqatilah." The group, says Jones, has apparently split from JI's mainstream elements, which oppose violence. It has attracted younger, more radical members, she adds, not just from JI but from other militant Islamic organizations in Indonesia: "The information is still very sketchy, but this could be their first strike...
...Indonesia, these attacks come at a vulnerable moment. Authorities are still struggling to control a potentially disastrous outbreak of bird flu that has left six dead in recent months. And on the same day as last week's bombings, Yudhoyono announced drastic fuel-price hikes designed to shore up the government's shaky finances by slashing billions of dollars in subsidies. With Bali accounting for more than half of Indonesia's vital tourism revenues, the likely exodus of visitors from the island will place further pressure on the country's economy...
...billion Amount Indonesia spent on subsidies last year?almost a third of total government spending?to keep the country's fuel prices among the lowest in the world...