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SENTENCED. EURICO GUTERRES, 28, former leader of the fearsome pro-Indonesian Aitarak militia; to ten years in prison, for ordering an attack on the Dili home of independence activist Manuel Carrascalao, and for crimes against humanity during East Timor's bloody break with Indonesia in 1999; in Jakarta. The sentence was the stiffest yet imposed by a special tribunal investigating the killings of more than 1,000 East Timorese. But the court has yet to convict any members of the Indonesian military, which had control over militias like Aitarak. Guterres remains free pending an appeal that may not be heard...
...need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...
...perpetrators of the Bali massacre a suicide bomber? Or was he an ordinary jihad footsoldier who accidentally blew himself up? An account of what happened Oct. 12 by one witness strongly suggests the latter. According to Indonesian police sources who interrogated the witness, the terrorist named Iqbal entered the jam-packed Paddy's Irish Pub just after 11 p.m. and headed for the restrooms at the back, where he deposited a plastic bag. The witness?whose identity is being kept secret by police?entered the men's room as Iqbal was leaving and, spotting the bag, called out after...
...took place in the late-'90s in Malaysia. But the same reluctance can be seen in Indonesia years later. In his confession to U.S. interrogators, al-Qaeda's point man in Southeast Asia, Omar al-Faruq, described aborting a plan to bomb a U.S. Navy ship docked in the Indonesian port of Surabaya last May because he couldn't find non-Arab volunteers willing to die in the operation...
...also groups once considered to be, no matter how dangerous, simply local insurgencies. In the late '90s through the middle of 2001, JI engaged in several terrorist acts, including the bombing of the Philippine ambassador to Indonesia in August 2000; a spate of church bombings across the Indonesian archipelago in late 2000; and a series of bombings in Manila in December 2000. There was a method to all this madness. The assassination attempt on the Philippine ambassador was a "thank you" from JI to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for providing training camps in Philippine territory it controlled...