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...arrest was a spectacular coup for Indonesia's much-maligned police force, particularly after they announced that Samudra had not only confessed to planning and directing the Bali bomb blasts but had also admitted to a string of other crimes, including several unsolved robberies and mysterious bombings. Indonesian authorities said the continuing roundup of Bali bombers had netted a total of seven suspects by Nov. 24, and added that they were actively seeking up to five more. They also said that Samudra had made a startling revelation: the smaller of the two bombs that exploded that night in Kuta...
...Despite such grim revelations, it seemed that every new bomber paraded before the press rebutted those who had despaired of Indonesia ever taking action in the fight against terror. The police made a series of amazingly swift arrests and promised more soon. But for all the sound and fury surrounding the investigations, disturbing questions remain unanswered?questions that have grave implications for the likelihood of future terrorist attacks in Indonesia and the region. Why can't Indonesian and Australian forensics analysts even agree on the composition of the bomb? Who actually built the bomb?none of those captured even pretended...
...still-secret list of those "top guns" is a Yemeni national named Syafullah, a senior al-Qaeda operative whose trail of terror goes back to involvement in the 1996 bombings of a U.S. military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 servicemen. Syafullah, who intelligence sources say entered Indonesia on a forged U.S. passport, would have provided the critical bombmaking and operational experience needed for a relatively sophisticated operation like the one in Bali, which many experts argue was beyond the capacity of Jemaah Islamiah (JI). His presence would also provide the direct link to al-Qaeda that investigators...
...Indonesian man who fled with radical cleric Abubakar Ba'asyir to Malaysia in 1985. Sungkar and Abubakar both es-caped jail sentences imposed by the Suharto regime and lived in exile in Malaysia for more than a decade. Sungkar died of natural causes in 1999, while Abubakar returned to Indonesia one year earlier, after Suharto's fall. He is now in detention on suspicion of involvement in the same Christmas 2000 bomb blasts to which Samudra confessed responsibility. Last week police extended Abubakar's detention till the end of the year. (Abubakar has consistently denied any terrorist connections and maintains...
...Without elaborating, General I Made Mangku Pastika, head of the Bali investigation, said at a press conference that "there are indications Samudra had a new plan." With each such reminder of the remorseless commitment of terrorists like Imam Samudra, we can only wonder not whether the next attack in Indonesia will come, but where and how soon...