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...official admits, "you can get bogged down in the detail." Just two weeks ago, another Administration official tells TIME, the threat matrix contained warnings that terrorists might try a major attack, such as a car bomb, against a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia or the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. But since then they have received countless reports of new potential threats, a distressing number of them right here at home...
...Pervez Musharraf obviously felt secure enough to leave home this week, but has spent much of his international trip repeating his call for a bombing pause during Ramadan - even though he knows it won't happen. His concerns clearly resonate in the Muslim world. An editorial in Indonesia's Jakarta Post warns that "increasingly, people from predominantly Muslim countries are heeding the Taliban's call for a jihad, even if they deplore the radical brand of Islam that the Taliban have imposed on Afghanistan." The paper warns that "Washington cannot take international public opinion, which is still overwhelmingly behind...
...Ihab Khazaal, an Iraqi physician caught by Indonesian police a year ago aboard a leaky boat off Irian Jaya, has come to Jakarta to help the traumatized survivors. "I would never think of going aboard a boat again," says Ihab, who has been granted refugee status by the U.N. and is now waiting for an offer of asylum. In the grimy Jakarta hotel that houses last week's survivors, men still in torn, dirty clothes stand alone or in small groups, staring dazedly at the ground or weeping quietly. Speaking on the hotel's single phone, a woman is rocking...
...official admits, "you can get bogged down in the detail." Just two weeks ago, another Administration official tells Time, the threat matrix contained warnings that terrorists might try a major attack, such as a car bomb, against a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia or the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. But since then they have received countless reports of new potential threats, a distressing number of them right here at home...
...Most of the news about Indonesia that reaches the U.S. comes from the cities of Java - Jakarta, Surabaya, Solo and Yogyakarta - where demonstrations are held frequently outside US consular facilities. This is where extremist groups generally issue their threats, warning that Americans and foreigners will be "swept" out of the country by Islamic groups. The problem has been not so much the threats themselves as the government?s lack of response to them. Instead of condemning the intimidation, the government seems to first avoid making any comment and then, when pressed, to assure people that the extremists are far more...