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...Indonesia as a safe haven - a line enthusiastically embraced by some Indonesian officials, and certainly helped by forensic evidence suggesting the blast had been caused by sophisticated C4 plastic explosive, suggesting the perpetrators had international links. Still, the problem for the Indonesian president is that her country's radical Islamist movement is mostly homegrown, despite strong links with al-Qaeda to the highest level...
...been named as the prime suspect in the attack, is a case in point. The secretive body accused of involvement in scores of terrorist attacks and attempted strikes against Indonesian Christians and Western interests in Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore, has roots that date back to the 1970s. Islamist groups who dreamed of an Islamic state centered in Indonesia - whose 90 percent Muslim population makes it the world's largest Muslim nation - stretching from southern Thailand and Malaysia all the way to the southern islands of the Philippines eventually found their way into a global "jihad" movement when some went...
...resulting political fallout will likely make her more dependent than ever on the military. Indeed, her situation begs comparison with Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, who was forced by September 11 to choose between the U.S. and his regime's Taliban proteges - a strategic choice challenged by increasingly influential Islamist parties. But from the point of view of those seeking efficient curbing of Indonesian extremism, the laxity shown by Megawati until now may be a symptom of the often volatile diffusion of power in Jakarta that began in 1998 with Suharto's ouster, when a nation deeply riven by political...
...waging a guerrilla campaign in the south and east of the country, with rocket attacks on U.S. bases becoming an almost daily affair. And in the Philippines last Wednesday, a U.S. soldier was killed by a nail bomb thrown from a motorcycle in an attack blamed on the radical Islamist Abu Sayyaf group, whose operations have been the focus of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts there...
...jihadists fled post-Taliban Afghanistan for Europe, where some are citizens or legal residents. Funds raised by the new cells are either funneled directly into network activity or collected from around Europe by couriers for pooling and redistributing from London - which investigators call the headquarters for Islamist terrorism in Europe. In addition to the evidence linking Bensaïd and Belkacem to the 1995 blasts, French prosecutors assert there are records of wire transfers from a suspected Islamist named Rachid Ramda, as well as the duo's own detailed accounting of how that money was spent to prepare strikes. Terrorist...