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...When the launch finally came on Aug. 15, it was a grand and surprisingly emotional affair. President Megawati Sukarnoputri oversaw the gala ceremony in Jakarta and impulsively stepped aboard to take a closer look. For the Indonesian crew, led by I Gusti Putu Ngurah Sedana, a navy captain from Bali, the expedition is clearly a tremendous source of national pride...
...safe houses and eluding pursuers from several countries, including the U.S. During that time, Isamuddin--known as Hambali, al-Qaeda's top operative in Asia--allegedly masterminded a string of terrorist attacks, including last October's nightclub bombings in Bali and the bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta this month. Two weeks ago, Hambali moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Ayutthaya, Thailand, a tranquil, mainly Buddhist town one hour outside Bangkok. He may have hoped to lie low for a while--and, perhaps, plot his next lethal strike. Earlier this year Hambali's former boss, Khalid Shaikh...
...known killer...He is no longer a problem." PRESIDENT BUSH, on the capture of Hambali, the suspected mastermind of the bombings in Bali and at Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel...
...trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and literally wrote the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) manual on bomb building. Indonesian police now want Azahari for his suspected role in constructing the bombs that killed more than 200 people in Bali last October and 12 people at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta last month...
...officials were proved right last week when a car bomb exploded in the driveway of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, leaving 10 dead and 150 wounded. Within days, police said they had identified the bomber--by virtue of a severed head recovered from the building. But could more have been done to prevent the attack? A source close to the investigation says four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid identified the Marriott as one of many potential targets. Police insist they tightened security around those targets, but Marriott managers say they were left in the dark...