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...Manila's Today newspaper on July 17 responded in an editorial, declaring "the police forces of the Philippines are a joke." But no one in Asia is laughing about al-Ghozi being at large. The 32-year-old is the chief bombmaker for Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional grouping of Islamic radicals blamed for the devastating blasts in Bali last October as well as a slew of other explosions. According to academic Zachary Abuza, author of a new book about al-Qaeda in the region: "At a time when they've been lying low and licking their wounds because...
...worse is the impact on regional cooperation, a critical component in the war on terror that had just begun to flower after years of institutional inertia and international distrust. "Who is going to trust intelligence or anything else with the Filipinos now?" asks Abuza. Evidence has mounted recently that JI is continuing to plan bomb attacks from Thailand to Indonesia. Now the organization's master bombmaker is back, rested and ready to roll. The region might pay in lives for the negligence of one Manila prison...
...JI bombmaker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi is not the first big-time criminal to stroll out of Manila's "maximum-security" Camp Crame prison. Others include...
...SEIZED. 900 KG OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, more than twice the amount used in last October's Bali bombings, along with 160 kg of TNT, 1,700 detonators, two M-16s and 20,000 rounds of ammunition; in Semarang and Jakarta, Indonesia. Police say Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the terror outfit accused of the Bali blasts, was planning to use the explosives for attacks in the country. Nine suspected JI members have also been arrested...
...Thailand's arrest of three Thai nationals in June and a Singaporean in May sent a chill through the country's balmy resort towns?police alleged the men were part of a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist cell planning to commit Bali-style bombings in the tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Although the accused are in jail awaiting trial, a senior Thai intelligence source says the danger has not passed. An unidentified Thai believed to have planned the attacks remains at large and may still be able to carry them out. "We busted one cell but we know there...