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...Kuala Lumpur's Sentral Station, sparking concerns that the insurgency in southern Thailand was threatening to spill over into neighboring Malaysia, potentially including terror attacks in Malaysian cities. But TIME has now learned that the men were in the country to collect a cache of arms hidden by Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the al-Qaeda-linked militant network widely blamed for the Oct. 2002 Bali bombings. The connection raises its own set of concerns. In particular, analysts say, ties between Thailand and a wider Muslim militancy might signal a new escalation of violence in the south, where more than 600 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms at the Ready | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...militant who learned his trade in the mid-1990s in camps in Afghanistan run by al-Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf has returned to its original goal: establishing an Islamic state through jihad. According to Philippine and regional intelligence sources, Janjalani is strengthening ties with not just M.N.L.F. rebels but also Jemaah Islamiah, the network of Islamic militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings and which regional security officials say is al-Qaeda's proxy in Southeast Asia. "The ferry bombing was the worst terrorist attack in Asia after Bali," points out Zachary Abuza, author of Tentacles of Terror, a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "They Are Very Scary" | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...SENTENCED. ABDUL AZI HAJI CHIMING, MUHAMMAD YALALUDIN MADING and SMAN ESMA EL, alleged members of the militant Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) organization; for plotting to bomb the U.S. and British embassies in Cambodia, to life in prison; in Phnom Penh. The three men denied any involvement with the plot or the terrorist group, saying they had met Hambali?allegedly J.I.'s former operations chief?while working for a Saudi Arabian-funded charity that helped poor Cambodian Muslims. Hambali and two other foreigners, identified as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were tried and sentenced in absentia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

...very difficult." A first domestic step, he says, is interfaith dialogue and reaching out to the Islamic community. Preventing terrorism is the primary goal; cooperation with regional agencies is the key. Keelty has a high regard for the Indonesian National Police, particularly for the way they have disrupted Jemaah Islamiyah, built up intelligence on the terrorist group, and foiled attacks. Keelty believes the bombing outside Australia's Jakarta embassy in September, which killed 10 people, was done "on the run" after intelligence disrupted a planned second attack on the city's Marriott hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Arm of the Law | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...Since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been three significant developments among Southeast Asian terrorist groups. First, local jihadists are behaving like al-Qaeda, from which they take their inspiration. Between 2002 and 2004, Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the regional group closest to al-Qaeda, conducted three mass-fatality suicide attacks against Western targets, including the bombing of nightclubs in Bali. The Abu Sayyaf group bombed a superferry in February 2004 in the Philippines, the worst maritime terrorist attack in history. And, in 2003, Singaporean and Indonesian authorities disrupted an al-Qaeda-style operation by a J.I. cell to hijack an Aeroflot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Terror Threat Continues | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

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