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...successfully adapted to the new reality, decentralizing its already diffuse networks and making them even more difficult to penetrate. The U.S. and its allies will likely continue to pick off key operatives, as in last week's rollup of the most al-Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian known as Hambali. They may even eventually net the movement's masterminds, such as Bin Laden himself and Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the virus is already out there, and it is mutating. It's a relative certainty that many of the men whose faces appear on the Qaeda scorecard President Bush...
...briefing in the dilapidated police headquarters in Jakarta late last month, senior Indonesian police officials announced that Islamic militants would probably soon detonate a bomb in the capital and tacitly acknowledged that they could do little to prevent it. A captured Islamic militant confessed that he had delivered two carloads of bombmaking materials to the capital. And a police raid in the central Java city of Semarang uncovered papers outlining areas of Jakarta earmarked for attack by Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a network allied to al-Qaeda and tied to last year's Bali bombing...
...attack has raised fears of a new wave of bombings in the country with the world's largest Muslim population. Indonesian police believe JI has at least one other cache of explosives in the city. Sources say a suspected JI agent arrested in April confessed that he had delivered 660 lbs. to two senior JI operatives. Early analysis of the composition and design of the Marriott bomb suggests one of those operatives, Malaysian geophysicist and alleged JI bombmeister Azahari Husin, played a key role in the attack. "The momentum is still going for JI," says Mick Keelty, head...
...Indeed, the two carloads of bombmaking materials that one militant confessed to transporting into Jakarta aren't the only resource JI members have at their disposal. Indonesian police say that a suspected JI operative named Rusdi, arrested by police in April in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, has confessed that he left 300 kilograms of explosives in the hands of Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, two senior JI operatives with whom he was traveling when he was apprehended. Police believe both were instrumental in the Bali plot, with Azahari responsible for designing and assembling the main bomb. The pair managed...
...With bombmakers like Azahari and Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, an Indonesian JI operative who recently escaped from a Manila jail, on the loose, Indonesians face the prospect of awful scenes of blackened bodies and pools of blood?like those broadcast in the aftermath of the Marriott bombing?becoming routine. That explosion was Indonesia's fifth in the past year (although the others were much smaller), and Jakartans are already becoming used to these disruptions. "You can die anytime and anywhere," says Leila Djafaar, a public relations officer who saw the explosion from her office window. "It's impossible to avoid...