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Last Wednesday, Indonesian police swooped into a boarding house in Cirebon in West Java province and busted two alleged terrorists, identified only as Tohir and Ismail. Police suspect they were part of a five-man Jemaah Islamiah (JI) cell that planned and executed the bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel in August, killing 12. The two suspects may also have been plotting more attacks on American-owned businesses, including the branch of an international bank in Bandung, the province's bustling capital. "They had been surveying the bank but had yet to set a date for the attack," says...
...Yacub, a 23-year-old who police say is Indonesian and whose real name is Taufek Refke, was more talkative following his arrest. Authorities say Refke has confessed to being the second highest ranking member of the Islamic terror organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in the Philippines. His arrest, along with information stemming from his capture, has confirmed what Philippine officials have until now been reluctant to acknowledge: that a large number of foreign Islamic militants are using the country?more than any other in Asia?as a base and a refuge...
...links with JI?including offering training facilities for hundreds of its recruits?almost since JI's inception in the mid-1990s. JI's alleged former operations chief Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, made this clear to his interrogators after his Aug. 11 capture. "Large numbers of Indonesian members of Jemaah Islamiah are hiding in the Philippines and are supporting the MILF," he stated baldly...
...DIED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI, 32, Indonesian militant and fugitive bombmaker shot dead by police; in Pigkawayan, Cotabato, the Philippines. Al-Ghozi, a member of the Southeast Asian militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah, had been on the run since July, after escaping from a Philippine maximum-security prison while serving a 10-year jail term for explosives possession. He was also a suspect in the December 2000 bombing of a Manila train station in which 22 people died. Philippine police said al-Ghozi was killed in a shootout. Authorities denied allegations from leftist militants and some politicians that the fugitive...
...company of Lillie. Those two were arrested in June and August, respectively, and Lillie directed police to Hambali. Before the three were busted, they had worked, according to their confessions, as a liaison unit between al-Qaeda and extremist militants in Southeast Asia, principally those of Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), a network of radical groups...