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...SENTENCED. Abdul Aziz, 31, Dwi Widiarto, 34, and Mohammad Cholili, 29, to eight to 18 years in prison for their roles in the October 2005 suicide bombings in Bali, Indonesia, which killed 20 people and injured over 100; in Denpasar. Aziz reportedly harbored Jemaah Islamiah plotter Nurdin Mohammed Top and designed websites for the terror organization, while Widiarto helped film the bombers' farewell tapes. Both received eight-year sentences. Cholili, a former mobile-phone vendor who assembled circuitry for the bombs, was sentenced to 18 years in jail...
...wreckage, police found what amounted to a bomb factory. A police source says 33 packets of explosives were uncovered--and one was already tucked inside a backpack. The upshot: Jemaah Islamiah, the Southeast Asian network of militants to which Azahari allegedly belonged, was almost certainly planning new attacks, and Azahari had been training new bombmakers. Last Friday security forces found a bombmaking video at a house they suspect Noordin had recently occupied. Police say the tape contained confessions by the Oct. 1 bombers in which they declared they would go straight to paradise upon their death. Says a senior Indonesian...
...Azahari's death deals a serious blow to Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the Southeast Asian network of militants to which he allegedly belonged, and which is widely believed to have been behind the Bali bombings of last month and of 2002. But many militants are still at large, most notably Nurdin. Shadowy and less flamboyant than Azahari, Nurdin was given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand...
...take up this fight for an Islamic state in the region. Ironically, he notes, small-scale attacks by suicide bombers like the ones in Bali may be a side-effect of earlier police successes against extremists. After the first Bali bombings, police across Southeast Asia began a crackdown on Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the network of militants blamed for that attack. More than 300 alleged militants were arrested, including many top J.I. leaders. But by crippling much of the network's upper echelons, police have created a more fragmented and in some ways more elusive enemy. "Those initial arrests...
...here to stay. During the Suharto years, Indonesian authorities clamped down on any challenge to the state. Now the country is more open and democratic, but an unwelcome consequence is that militants have a freer run of the place. Al-Qaeda still provides money, trainers and technology to Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) and to militant Philippine groups like Abu Sayyaf. And Iraq, where Muslims are dying and suffering, continues to inspire Islamic extremists. If the Americans lose in Iraq, terrorists worldwide will be further emboldened...