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...added any new warnings to its preexisting Southeast Asian advisories, but privately, U.S. officials say the intensity of "chatter," or communications among suspected terrorists in the region, has reached an alarming level. Indonesian police who have been tracing phone calls between suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?the militant organization blamed for the Bali blasts?now believe planning for another attack is well under way. "There's a bunch of different streams that seem to be coming together," one U.S. official said. A senior source close to the Bali investigation believes that U.S. business interests could be the most viable...
...Indonesian authorities currently hold 33 suspected JI members in custody. Other high-profile actions in the country include the start of the trial of JI's alleged spiritual leader Abubakar Ba'asyir, and the capture of Abu Rusdan, the man police believe to be his successor. But police and intelligence sources warn sternly against complacency. "Many thought the arrest of the Bali bombers was the end of terrorism here, but I see the opposite," says Anysaad Mbai, who heads Indonesia's Coordinating Board on Counterterrorism. "Many key figures are still out there, and they are the most dangerous...
...Reinforcing that view were the arrests of 18 alleged JI operatives over the previous two weeks and the seizure of bomb-making materials and automatic weapons. Several top JI figures were among the detainees, investigators said, including Abu Rusdan, JI's current Amir, or supreme leader...
...Police reports seen by TIME lay out some of the successful investigative methods Indonesian police have employed in tracking and collaring members of the group. Many of the JI arrests police have made since Bali were made possible by mobile-phone tracking technology - a vulnerability JI senior leaders warned of on April 7, one suspect told interrogators, when members were told to "strictly limit the use of their cell phones." The JI leadership apparently couldn't take its own advice, allowing Indonesian police to begin a rolling series of arrests by leapfrogging from one suspect to another through logged calls...
...Does the change in public attitudes and the ongoing police crackdown mean JI is finished? By no means, warns one senior U.S. official. "They've taken another body blow with these latest arrests. But we can't afford to be complacent. We still don't know what capacity they've got out there." His warning was echoed by Indonesian police and, on Thursday morning, underscored by a pipe-bomb explosion outside the United Nations' Jakarta headquarters. No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but one senior security official with a large Western conglomerate offered a disturbing theory...