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...Filipinos need no reminding that they are squarely in the sights of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), and the presence of U.S. troops may have made the archipelago an even more tempting target. A year ago, an explosion rocked the Metro Railway Transit, killing 22 and injuring hundreds of others. The attack was carried out by Indonesian Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, a self-confessed JI member with links to the Philippines' two major Islamic guerrilla groups, the MILF and the Abu Sayyaf. After his January capture in Manila, al-Ghozi said he carried out the bombings on the orders of JI operations...
...Apart from obvious sites such as foreign embassies, Philippine intelligence officials say concerns about possible JI targets focus on a huge oil depot located in the heart of the city, not far from Malacanang, the presidential palace. The hit list also includes the Philippine Stock Exchange, major shopping malls and flyovers in Manila. Meanwhile in the south, where the overwhelming majority of the country's more than 3 million Muslims live, hardly a week goes by without some form of deadly attack...
...uncovered. With nearly 40 alleged militants now in prison, Singapore officials insist there is no longer "any credible threat" from Jemaah Islamiah cells inside the island republic. But as terror expert Zachary Abuza points out, ultimately, a successful attack in Singapore remains top of the wish list for JI, even if achieving that takes years. "Singapore has enormous symbolic importance as the capitalist center of the region," says Abuza...
...roots in the Malaysian Muslim community. There is no arguing, either, with the fact that Malaysia was used by the likes of Abubakar and his alleged henchman Hambali as their haven for over a decade and eventually as a rendezvous for both regional and global militant conclaves organized by JI. Most notorious was the January 2000 meeting attended by up to 12 key JI and al-Qaeda figures, including Tawfiq bin Atash, top suspect in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in October 2000, two of the Pentagon hijackers, another key al-Qaeda figure Ramzi Binalshibh...
...blow up Israeli diplomatic missions in Australia. Jack Roche has protested his innocence, despite giving remarkably frank interviews to The Australian newspaper before his arrest describing his training in Afghanistan in the use of explosives and a meeting in Malaysia with terrorist chief Hambali to discuss the recruitment of JI operatives back home...