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...After three years on the run in Indonesia, the master bombmaker--who on several occasions slipped away just before police showed up--was killed last week when a U.S.-trained antiterrorism unit raided a house he had rented in the mountain resort town of Batu in East Java. Azahari, 48, responded to officers' calls for surrender by shooting and hurling 11 explosive charges. A four-hour standoff ended when police shot him before he could detonate the explosives vest he was wearing. His companion then set off a bomb that brought down the roof and ripped both men apart...
...less developed countries are very vulnerable to the avian-influenza pandemic that is expected to spread around the world [Oct. 17]. Those countries lack the means to fight the flu. There are millions of chickens in small areas like the island of Java in Indonesia. Should the flocks become infected and the bird-flu virus mutate and spread to human beings, it would put Indonesia's 220 million people at risk...
...less developed countries are very vulnerable to the avian-influenza pandemic that is expected to spread around the world. Those countries lack the means to fight the flu. There are millions of chickens in small areas like the island of Java in Indonesia. Should the flocks become infected and the bird-flu virus mutate and spread to human beings, it would put Java's 114 million people at risk. Djali Ahimsa Jakarta...
...twice slipped out the back doors of houses minutes before police arrived, and he was once waved on by a policeman who had stopped to check motorcyclists leaving a bombing site; the officer failed to recognize Azahari. The string of narrow misses continued on Friday when police in East Java, across the Bali Strait, said they had likewise missed capturing Nurdin by a few hours. According to local press reports, police were certain of his whereabouts but waited several hours before raiding the house because they were "worried he was armed with explosives." This record of failures illustrates...
There are troubling signs, however, that H5N1 is on the move. The virus killed thousands of wild geese in 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...