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...West African airports and onto planes to Malaysia, where they are hidden away in safe houses for a week or two. They are loaded at night onto buses, taken to deserted stretches of coastline and then ferried by small fishing boats across the narrow Strait of Malacca into Indonesia. Then there is the wait, sometimes for months, for another boat for the final?often deadly?attempt to make it to Australia...
...with that tide of humanity threatening to turn into a flood, the horrific drownings off Indonesia may finally force previously reluctant governments to tackle the issue. Estimates vary, but at any given moment there are about 5,000 refugees at some point in that pipeline, diplomats and aid workers say, mostly Afghans and Iraqis. The figure has remained fairly steady for several years but could rise dramatically with the enormous surge in emigrants that has followed the U.S. bombing in Afghanistan, and the possibility of greater upheaval in the region should the fighting spread. Indonesia's Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda...
...stepping-stone. That comment was sparked by an incident in August in which Australia refused entry to 460 refugees, mainly Afghans, aboard the cargo ship Tampa. Like the hundreds who drowned off Java, many of the refugees aboard the Tampa had passed through Malaysia on their way to Indonesia to board the ship. There has been talk in recent weeks in Kuala Lumpur of a variety of measures that might be taken to plug the holes through which the flow of refugees pours?a temporary amnesty, a move to limit visa-free entry to certain countries...
...while the passage through Malaysia may be smooth for both sides, once the refugees arrive in Indonesia, they face a rougher ride. Even the most desperate gambler would blanch at the odds on surviving the final, crucial journey to Australia: some 4,500 refugees have landed in Australia in the past two years. But during the same period almost 800 have been officially classified as lost at sea, and some think that may be a serious underestimate. To get a sense of the risk, listen to the Middle-Eastern businessman who Jacky says is his boss, the man who heads...
...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...