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...ARRESTED. SAIFULLAH (MUKLIS) YUNOS, alleged head of special operations for the Philippine separatist group the Moro National Liberation Front and said to be its liaison with the regional terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI); while trying to board a flight for Manila; in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines. Yunos was caught with an Egyptian who is on international terrorist-watch lists. Meanwhile, in Cambodia the authorities detained three men?one Egyptian and two Thais?for being JI members. Although the arrests signify progress in the war on terror, they also show the resilience and reach of JI, which is widely regarded...
...added any new warnings to its preexisting Southeast Asian advisories, but privately, U.S. officials say the intensity of "chatter," or communications among suspected terrorists in the region, has reached an alarming level. Indonesian police who have been tracing phone calls between suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?the militant organization blamed for the Bali blasts?now believe planning for another attack is well under way. "There's a bunch of different streams that seem to be coming together," one U.S. official said. A senior source close to the Bali investigation believes that U.S. business interests could be the most viable...
Perhaps the most encouraging development of detained Muslim cleric and alleged Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Abubakar Ba'asyir's first day in court last Wednesday was what happened outside of it: nothing. Only a handful of curious passersby peeked into the Bureau of Meteorology and Geophysics in North Jakarta, where the proceedings are being held. Security was conspicuously light; police were armed only with batons. Abubakar, who maintains his innocence, sat impassively as prosecutors read out the four charges against him: treason, plotting to assassinate the President and two immigration violations...
...entities thought to be funding al-Qaeda. But half a year after the bombings in Bali alerted the world to a lethal terror threat in Southeast Asia, intelligence officials and regional diplomats say that a complex web of charities, front companies, Islamic organizations, and individuals suspected of financing Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?the al-Qaeda-linked network blamed for the Bali attack and numerous others?remains largely untouched. For months, say U.S. officials, Washington has wanted to issue a list naming terror backers in Southeast Asia, thus freezing their assets in America and pressuring other countries to follow suit. But while...
...9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. So, too, have the deadly intentions of Asian Islamic groups with al-Qaeda links. The MILF, which helped train foreign jihadis in the late 1990s, has been hammered by the Philippine military in the past few weeks. Foot soldiers, commanders and tacticians of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the militant group behind the Bali blasts, have been thrown behind bars recently in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, and its alleged spiritual leader, Abubakar Ba'asyir, is in detention in Jakarta awaiting charges and a trial...