Word: indonesianness
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...ourselves if the Indonesian government has the nerve to crack down on Islamic militants, but I want to know if that government has the wisdom and patience to understand the conditions that motivate Indonesians to become terrorists. If the government clamps down on Islamic radicals but does nothing about those conditions, the militants won't go away. Insurgencies inspired by economic and political problems do not respond to military action or political repression. When will we learn? GILBERT HEROD Carmel...
...widespread and more intense than ever in bin Laden's traditional recruiting grounds, fueled by Washington's moves against Iraq and ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence - it's hardly any coincidence that he makes those two issues the key talking points of his latest propaganda offering (adding an appeal to Indonesian nationalist sentiment on East Timor as a reminder that southeast Asia remains a key emerging market for al-Qaeda...
Amrozi must have felt safe. The man who, according to Indonesian police, has confessed to building the explosive that killed 191 revelers in Bali on Oct. 12, was hundreds of miles away at the time of the conflagration, sitting in a friend's house in a tiny hamlet in East Java watching a boxing match on television. And although on June 15 he bought the white Mitsubishi L-300 van that would be used to carry the main bomb, Amrozi was careful to change the registration six times. He had even filed off the registration numbers engraved on the engine...
...Indonesian police say they are currently hunting between six and 10 other suspects for the Bali blasts and expect to make more arrests soon. (Two of Amrozi's younger brothers?he has 13 siblings?are being sought by police on suspicion of involvement in buying the chemicals used in the bomb.) How many militants are swept up in the widening investigation and the vigor with which they are prosecuted will be a signpost of whether the Indonesian authorities, until now regarded as the laggards in Southeast Asia's war on terror, have really changed direction. "I think the danger...
...Indonesian police remain oddly reluctant to directly accuse Jemaah Islamiah of being behind the blast: Abubakar himself has not been charged with any crime related to the attack in Bali, although he is being questioned about a string of bombings during Christmas 2000 that left 18 dead, an alleged plot to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri, and immigration violations. The police do acknowledge that the attack in the town of Kuta in Bali was organized and executed on a regional scale. According to Aritonang, funding for the car bomb is believed to have originated from Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia in cash...