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...According to a source close to the police investigations who has reviewed the bulk of seized JI documents, the organization's own accounting shows that some 3,000 trainees have passed through Mindanao since the mid-1990s. A recent intelligence report prepared by the Philippine military and seen by TIME estimates that 600 JI members are currently in Mindanao, scattered among at least three camps. That figure, contained in a so-called Jemaah Islamiah situationer dated Dec. 8, includes an unspecified number of Filipinos, but the bulk of trainees are believed to be Indonesians, along with some Malaysians. The report...
...Nyupeno's smile quickly disappears when he is asked about some of the people who have allegedly passed through the school: suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast Asian network of Muslim militants blamed for numerous bombings region-wide, including the October 2002 attack in Bali that claimed 202 lives. Nyupeno flatly denies police allegations that a convicted Bali bomber, Ali Imron, had once taken refuge in one of the spartan cubicles at the rear of the mosque where the staff sleep. He also rebuts claims made by another bombing suspect during police interrogation that the school was used...
...strict secrecy practiced by JI and its affiliates means that Nyupeno and many other teachers might have had no idea of the true identity of the travelers who took advantage of the school's hospitality. (A teacher at the school, whom police allege has links to JI, disappeared in November last year.) Indeed, one of JI's greatest strengths is that its cells function as independent, clandestine units with scant knowledge of the rest of the organization. After his arrest in April, one top JI militant, Mohamad Nasir bin Abas, explained to police, "There can be members of JI...
...more and more senior JI members are arrested and questioned, and the organization's internal documents come to light, some of the veils of secrecy are being stripped away. Recent interrogation and intelligence reports obtained by TIME make it clear that one of JI's best-kept secrets is the ambitious scale of its training camps in Mindanao, which has replaced Afghanistan as the preferred location for learning how to wage terror. Even more alarming: more than a year after Bali, both the camps and the supply routes for recruits appear to be functioning normally...
...President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's National Security Adviser, Roilo Golez, emphatically denies that 600 JI members are present in the Philippines. "That's wrong," he tells TIME. "Very, very wrong. I can bet my future, my career and my life that it's not true." The government has made similar assertions in the past. Arroyo herself denied for months that the JI problem was serious. Then in an about-face in November, she announced that her administration now regards JI as the country's biggest national security threat...