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...Taliban turned tail in Afghanistan and U.S. troops are helping to mop up Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. But smoking out evil in Indonesia is fast becoming a foggy affair. Case in point: a supposedly top-secret document entitled 'Jihad War in Southeast Asia' outlined a plan to blow up the U.S. embassies in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore on Dec. 4. This screed fell into the hands of Indonesian police and surfaced in January as an exclusive for Singapore's Straits Times. A costly slip by the evildoers, it would seem. But why would the authors, purportedly from the radical...
...dramas, the actor garnered international recognition for the role of the enigmatic Oxford-based detective in 1987. Thirteen years later, more than 13 million fans tuned in to watch the show's final episode. DIED. JOHANNES CORNELIS PRINCEN, 76, a former Dutch colonial soldier who became one of Indonesia's leading human rights activists; in Jakarta. Princen deserted the Dutch army in 1948 and joined the guerrillas fighting for Indonesia's independence. Once that was achieved, he became a lifelong advocate for persecuted opponents of the country's government, and was jailed several times on charges of organizing illegal political...
...What exactly was Selamah's role in the cell? Philippine officials won't specifically say. But some analysts believe Selamah acted as an al-Qaeda recruiter and facilitated the movement of operatives in and out of the Philippines via the country's maritime "back-door" border with Malaysia and Indonesia...
...across Southeast Asia and beyond. Indeed, today the MILF has emerged as a central player in the perennially murky web of underground Islamism in Southeast Asia. Since at least 1996 the MILF jungle camps are believed to have played host to several hundred jihadis from the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia. This new evidence points to even stronger ties between MILF members and al-Qaeda...
...whether the MILF has been importing terrorism as a matter of policy, or whether rogue elements have taken matters into their own hands. "The MILF is a loose collection of commanders and warlords, political leaders, religious people and others," says a Western diplomat. "There are certainly personal connections with Indonesia, Malaysia and the Middle East, but to see Hashim Salamat and the central committee as part of a network of terror around the world?I think the record is less clear there." The MILF is not Southeast Asia's version of the Taliban or the I.R.A.?not yet anyway...