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...admits, "you can get bogged down in the detail." Just two weeks ago, another Administration official tells TIME, the threat matrix contained warnings that terrorists might try a major attack, such as a car bomb, against a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia or the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. But since then they have received countless reports of new potential threats, a distressing number of them right here at home...
...Indonesia: Don't take us for granted...
...General Pervez Musharraf obviously felt secure enough to leave home this week, but has spent much of his international trip repeating his call for a bombing pause during Ramadan - even though he knows it won't happen. His concerns clearly resonate in the Muslim world. An editorial in Indonesia's Jakarta Post warns that "increasingly, people from predominantly Muslim countries are heeding the Taliban's call for a jihad, even if they deplore the radical brand of Islam that the Taliban have imposed on Afghanistan." The paper warns that "Washington cannot take international public opinion, which is still overwhelmingly behind...
...With luck, the deaths and suffering of so many will push governments to plug some of the holes that allow refugees to set out from Indonesia packed into rickety fishing boats. No one should have to suffer like Rokaya, sitting off to one side by herself in a white plastic chair, looking down at the dirty floor tiles, seeing nothing but the faces of her lost children...
...INDONESIA Drowned The Indonesian government called a regional meeting to discuss the refugee problem after 374 refugees, most of them Iraqis, drowned in a 19-m boat bound for Australia. Only 44 people were rescued from the water. Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock asked Indonesia to extradite an Egyptian he claimed was responsible for the people-smuggling operation...