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...9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. So, too, have the deadly intentions of Asian Islamic groups with al-Qaeda links. The MILF, which helped train foreign jihadis in the late 1990s, has been hammered by the Philippine military in the past few weeks. Foot soldiers, commanders and tacticians of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the militant group behind the Bali blasts, have been thrown behind bars recently in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, and its alleged spiritual leader, Abubakar Ba'asyir, is in detention in Jakarta awaiting charges and a trial...
...Mindanao's Islamic rebels now seem to be after more than a home alone. TIME has learned that elements of these same separatist movements have become a nexus for Southeast Asian terrorists and are providing a training ground for operatives linked to Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist network widely blamed for last October's deadly Bali bombings. Officially, the army says it launched last week's operation to pursue a kidnap-for-ransom gang (called the Pentagon) that was being given sanctuary by the MILF. Another goal was to disperse a concentration of 1,000 MILF fighters...
...captured member of Jemaah Islamiah, the regional network of Islamic militants blamed for the Bali attack, told investigators that the group began planning strikes more than a year ago on "soft" targets such as bars, restaurants and clubs frequented by foreigners. The specter of a war in Iraq brings with it the very real possibility that JI and its like-minded terrorist brethren will ratchet up such operations. This makes the conclusion that the Bali blasts were probably triggered by Southeast Asia's first known suicide bombers "highly alarming" given the challenges presented by terrorists willing to die, says...
Indonesian officials have been reluctant to make a direct link between the bombings last October in Bali and al-Qaeda, the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden. Many of those arrested were members of Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), an Islamic militant group with adherents throughout Southeast Asia. But as recently as Jan. 8, Indonesia's top police official said, "We haven't come to any conclusion yet whether there is a link between Jemaah Islamiah and al-Qaeda...
...have been in charge of mixing the chemicals used in the bombs. Mukhlas says that he, Hambali (who is still on the lam) and other J.I. leaders maintained close ties with al-Qaeda from the late 1980s on, and the official police summary of Mukhlas' interrogation states baldly, "Jemaah Islamiah's jihad operations were funded by al-Qaeda...