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...changed: authorities still believe that the terrorism linchpins in the region are 48-year-old Malaysian statistician Azahari bin Husin and his former student Nurdin Mohammed Top, 37. They are suspected of playing key roles as planners and bombmakers in the 2002 Bali blasts, the August 2003 bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel, the September 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in the capital and the Oct. 1 bombings. While police don't have a smoking gun linking the two fugitives to the latest attacks, they say that the type of explosives and other materials used point to their...
...China this past spring and popped up among migratory birds in parts of Siberia this summer. There was a report in May about a handful of infected pigs in western Java. Even more worrisome, Indonesian health authorities said last week that a number of chickens on household farms in Jakarta had been testing positive for H5N1 without showing signs of illness. If confirmed, that development could severely complicate efforts to track and control bird flu in poultry. Without dead chickens, you can't tell where the disease is moving...
After the 2002 bombings, Indonesia arrested several foot soldiers of the conspiracy and sentenced a prominent cleric to a short prison term for inspiring the attack. (The CIA caught the plot leader in Thailand in 2003.) Jakarta, however, has not been able to capture two key plotters: Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, among the chief operatives of Jemaah Islamiah, a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda. The two are also suspects in subsequent attacks in Jakarta, on the Marriott Hotel in 2003 and the Australian embassy a year later, which killed a total of 23. Azahari is allegedly...
...bombings did not come as a surprise. Just days earlier Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had warned that terrorist attacks might be imminent. And though both Indonesian and foreign security officials had focused on the capital Jakarta as the most likely target, nobody doubted that Bali was a candidate...
...group has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attacks, but security officials and terrorism experts suspect they were carried out by a group associated with Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional network of Islamic militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings. Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based JI expert with the International Crisis Group, speculates that a faction led by fugitive Malaysian bombmaker Azahari bin Husin and his countryman Nordin bin Top may be to blame. Says Jones: "We recently received information that Azahari had started a new special forces group called the Thoisah Moqatilah." The group, says Jones, has apparently split from...