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October is a special month for terrorism, declared Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono in August. "Terrorist cells are still active. They are still hiding, recruiting, networking, trying to find new funding sources and even planning." As if on schedule, on Oct. 1 suicide bombers struck Indonesia's island of Bali, just 11 days shy of the third anniversary of another set of blasts that took 202 lives on the island. At 7:30 p.m. on a crowded Saturday, the popular tourist town of Kuta, the target of the 2002 attacks, was rocked by an explosion. A multistory restaurant was gutted. Simultaneously...
...Inside, hundreds of other boxes stacked from floor to ceiling are visible. "We can send one or two containers out a week," Hendrawan says. Chances of interception on the way to buyers are small. In 2001, for example, China banned all direct imports of live freshwater turtles from Indonesia in an attempt to stem the flow, notes Compton of TRAFFIC. The main effect was to force dealers to find alternate air routes through second countries like Malaysia, he says, or increase their reliance on the porous land borders. "We pack a layer of legal turtles on top, then put thousands...
...Nations agreed in May to a five-year plan to combat threats to the region's biodiversity. "Now it remains to be seen if they'll commit the resources to back that up, put their money where their mouths are." Last week, amid an outbreak of avian flu in Indonesia that has sickened 20 and killed two, the U.S. State Department announced the formation of an international coalition to lobby Asian governments to tighten the screws on wildlife smugglers. Asia can only hope that it doesn't take a deadly pandemic to save the pangolin...
...Indonesia has long been luckier than its neighbors in dealing with bird flu: until recently, it had avoided the human cases which have cropped up in Thailand and Vietnam. Indonesia's luck, however, may have run out. In the past two weeks scientists have confirmed two recent bird-flu deaths, and by the end of last week more than 20 people around the country, including a number of children, were being treated as suspected cases. The World Health Organization has said there is no evidence yet of sustained human-to-human transmission, but Indonesians are increasingly worried?and Jakarta...
...keep the jihad going." Hambali, who was arrested in Thailand in August 2003, had extremely close links to al-Qaeda's leadership and acted as operations chief for Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the militant network credited with several bombings in the region, including the October 12, 2002 attack in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people. On Khan's first visit, the jailed militant told police, they traveled to the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo, where Khan was introduced to a senior member of J.I., Nasir Abbas. Nasir, who remains free but is cooperating with Indonesian police, took Khan...