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...like Javanese mysticism. Until the bombings, Makruf didn't know that a small Islamist group was combining an ultra-orthodox reading of the holy book with avowedly anti-Western militancy and was waging terrorist attacks in the name of those beliefs. "I was surprised by the existence of Jemaah Islamiah," he says. "In everyday life, they were not part of Islamic society here...
They are now. That was evident last week when Indonesian judges sentenced Abubakar Ba'asyir, a conservative cleric who started Pondok Ngruki, an Islamist boarding school in Solo, and, according to several foreign governments, allegedly co-founded Jemaah Islamiah in the early '90s, to four years in prison for treason and immigration violations. But he was acquitted of charges that he ran the radical group and planned a series of Indonesian bombings (He has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities, and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that links him to terrorism.) Only slowly are the citizens of Solo...
Though roughly 90 Jemaah Islamiah members have been detained in Indonesia, Sidney Jones, head of the Jakarta office of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, says, "Every time we've done research, we find out more about how extensive it actually is." She believes Jemaah Islamiah has "thousands of followers." But unless internal sectarian strife flares anew or Iraq becomes the kind of rallying point for jihad that Afghanistan was, Indonesia's militant radicals will have to convince potential recruits that attacking Western targets at home is an honorable way to fight the infidel. The Marriott bombing did little...
...CHARGED. Maizuru Haiji Abduallah, Mujahid Haiji Abdullah, Waehamadi Wadao, Saman Waekaj and Arifin Bin Ali, with plotting to bomb embassies and tourist spots; in Bangkok. Police allege that the four Thais and one Singaporean are members of Jemaah Islamiah, the regional terrorist group allegedly behind the Bali bombing in October 2002. Police say the men planned to blow up the American, Australian, British, Israeli and Singaporean embassies in Bangkok, as well as tourist attractions in the Thai capital, Phuket and Pattaya...
...activities shortly after he was taken to an undisclosed location to face u.s. interrogators. One of the key revelations: Hambali told the interrogators that his replacement in the network is Azahari bin Husin, a Malaysian geophysics professor who trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and literally wrote the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) manual on bomb building. Indonesian police now want Azahari for his suspected role in constructing the bombs that killed more than 200 people in Bali last October and 12 people at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta last month...