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...ARRESTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, Indonesian Muslim cleric; on the day he was to be freed after serving 18 months for minor immigration offenses and document forgery; in Jakarta. Police claim they have new evidence that he is the leader of the radical group Jemaah Islamiah and that he approved a string of bombings, including the October 2002 Bali attack that killed 202 people. (Abubakar has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities, and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that accused him of links to terrorism...
...ability and funding of the handful of small separatist groups in the south. But even the most basic information about these groups?the size of their memberships, how much they cooperate with one another, what links they have to international militant Islamic groups such as al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?remains largely a mystery. "Most of the groups have been dormant for years," says a Malaysian intelligence official in Kuala Lumpur, so they have largely fallen off the radar. But, he adds, while relatively few in numbers, the militants have remained active. "They were waiting for the right time...
...Bali bomb blasts and last year's attack at the JW Marriott hotel in downtown Jakarta. She encouraged a competent and thorough investigation of the Bali bombings, which led to the arrests of more than 30 Muslim militants and key players in the network of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI). But Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. If Megawati does not move cautiously, she risks alienating Muslim voters or being branded a U.S. lackey. Although JI has been declared a terrorist organization by the U.N., Megawati has been reluctant to follow suit...
...Likewise, in the Philippines, where the government has been battling a Muslim insurgency in the south, some fear that the posting of Filipino troops in Iraq might persuade more local extremists to link up with al-Qaeda or its regional proxy Jemaah Islamiah. "Why should the Philippines absorb the enemies of other countries?" asks former Senator Raul Roco, who is running for President. "We have enough problems." If soldiers and civilians from the continent continue to be targeted in Iraq, more people will begin to wonder if this mission is worth the price in Asian blood...
...rights against what he felt were "gross injustices committed by the central government against Muslims," says Sittisak Kongluer, a colleague of Somchai's at their small Bangkok law firm. Somchai's high-profile and often-controversial clients include four Thai Muslims accused of involvement in regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah and five men suspected of planning a deadly raid on a Thai army base on Jan. 4. The attack sparked an upsurge of violence in the area that has left at least 50 people dead, most of whom were local officials or police. Somchai claimed that police tortured the five...