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...connected with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, to remain at large. On the one occasion recently when law-enforcement authorities did hand over a suspected al-Qaeda operative to the U.S., local sensitivities obliged them to disguise it?clumsily?as an extradition to another Muslim country. Jakarta claimed the man was wanted in Egypt for terrorism...
...Taify. "We are not aware that Egyptian intelligence was ever in Indonesia or that the Pakistani was wanted in Egypt." So where did Havis go? One clue: the 25-year-old was wanted by the U.S. for a possible connection to the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Intelligence sources in Jakarta say Havis was bundled onto a CIA Gulfstream G-5 executive jet for an unknown destination. As is its usual practice, the CIA refused to comment about the case, though a senior intelligence official in Washington did say Havis is in custody in a "foreign country." Another Washington official describes...
...Yarbas, the leader of an al-Qaeda cell in Spain. But Parlindungan, who had returned to Indonesia in December 2000 from Spain, mysteriously disappeared last November, after Spanish police arrested Imad and seven other suspected terrorists. "The Indonesians had him in their hands," says a Western intelligence source in Jakarta, "he was under 24-hr. surveillance and then when the request came in for his arrest, he suddenly couldn't be found." This time, though, it's a sure bet that Parlindungan didn't make his disappearance courtesy...
...role of the enigmatic Oxford-based detective in 1987. Thirteen years later, more than 13 million fans tuned in to watch the show's final episode. DIED. JOHANNES CORNELIS PRINCEN, 76, a former Dutch colonial soldier who became one of Indonesia's leading human rights activists; in Jakarta. Princen deserted the Dutch army in 1948 and joined the guerrillas fighting for Indonesia's independence. Once that was achieved, he became a lifelong advocate for persecuted opponents of the country's government, and was jailed several times on charges of organizing illegal political protests during the military-backed rule of President...
...this year's flooding a national disaster, a decision that would require millions of extra dollars in relief money. The floods, however, are nothing short of a tragedy and have rapidly become a symbol of the government's incompetence and corruption. The numbers are staggering: 142 dead (57 in Jakarta), 385,000 displaced, damage estimated at more than $200 million, 80,000 people suffering from diarrhea, influenza and cholera, and only 265 doctors made available at government health posts. "The only help we've received from the government is when they loaned us four rubber boats to transport our things...