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...SENTENCE REDUCED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 65, jailed Indonesian cleric and accused spiritual leader of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiah, which has been blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings; by Indonesia's Supreme Court; in Jakarta. Abubakar was originally sentenced to four years in prison for subversion and immigration violations. But the subversion conviction was thrown out in December, and last week his jail term was cut to 18 months including time served, allowing Abubakar to be released in a matter of weeks. The court's decision sparked concern about Indonesia's commitment to fighting terrorism. Visiting Jakarta last...
...within Thailand. His security adviser, retired General Kitti Rattanachaya, claimed the attacks last week were the work of a little-known group, the Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (G.M.I.P.), which has close ties to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia?a militant Islamic outfit with links to more established terror groups Jemaah Islamiah (JI) and al-Qaeda...
...that some 3,000 trainees have passed through Mindanao since the mid-1990s. A recent intelligence report prepared by the Philippine military and seen by TIME estimates that 600 JI members are currently in Mindanao, scattered among at least three camps. That figure, contained in a so-called Jemaah Islamiah situationer dated Dec. 8, includes an unspecified number of Filipinos, but the bulk of trainees are believed to be Indonesians, along with some Malaysians. The report, which details the location of the three camps and a number of JI "safe houses" in Mindanao and Manila, contradicts last week's relatively...
...Nyupeno's smile quickly disappears when he is asked about some of the people who have allegedly passed through the school: suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast Asian network of Muslim militants blamed for numerous bombings region-wide, including the October 2002 attack in Bali that claimed 202 lives. Nyupeno flatly denies police allegations that a convicted Bali bomber, Ali Imron, had once taken refuge in one of the spartan cubicles at the rear of the mosque where the staff sleep. He also rebuts claims made by another bombing suspect during police interrogation that the school was used...
Regional Muslim militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?blamed for bombings across the region, including the devastating attack in Bali a year ago?appears to be on a chilling new tack in its fight to establish an Islamic state in Southeast Asia: slaughtering Christians, in the hope of reigniting murderous inter-religious conflict in Sulawesi...