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...Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 servicemen. Syafullah, who intelligence sources say entered Indonesia on a forged U.S. passport, would have provided the critical bombmaking and operational experience needed for a relatively sophisticated operation like the one in Bali, which many experts argue was beyond the capacity of Jemaah Islamiah (JI). His presence would also provide the direct link to al-Qaeda that investigators have long suspected but been unable to prove...
...earlier, after Suharto's fall. He is now in detention on suspicion of involvement in the same Christmas 2000 bomb blasts to which Samudra confessed responsibility. Last week police extended Abubakar's detention till the end of the year. (Abubakar has consistently denied any terrorist connections and maintains that JI is a spiritual movement that has been demonized by U.S. intelligence officials seeking to blacken the name of Islam in Southeast Asia...
...authorities can ill afford even a self-congratulatory pause in their war on terror. One senior government official concedes that while Samudra's arrest and the detention of Abubakar are big steps forward, the true masterminds of the Bali attack are the real prize. Not only are many senior JI commanders still active, the official adds, but the organization is highly adaptable. "JI operations have been disrupted, but it is a very amorphous body which can quickly execute leadership changes in the event of problems...
...British and Australian governments denied allegations they had been told about a possible attack in Bali.) President Megawati Sukarnoputri's administration had also repeatedly snubbed requests from Malaysia and Singapore to arrest and extradite Abubakar Ba'asyir, a radical cleric who is said to lead the extremist Jemaah Islamiah (JI) - the group the U.S. suspects of being behind the Bali bombing. The day before he was due for interrogation, Ba'asyir fainted at a press conference and checked into a hospital. He was arrested anyway. Indonesian officials then said they did not think he was behind the blast. But JI...
...While U.S. and Asian leaders have grown increasingly alarmed at signs of al-Qaeda-linked activity in Indonesia, they've tended to avoid publicly challenging Megawati. And when U.S. sources have pointed to links between JI and al-Qaeda, the mainstream Muslim parties have cried foul and demanded that Megawati stand up to this American "propaganda." A recent TIME report caused consternation in Jakarta by revealing that the CIA interrogation of confessed al-Qaeda operative Omar al-Faruq, a Kuwaiti whose role was to liaise with Indonesian groups, had linked JI and specifically Abu Bakr Bashir, a charismatic cleric alleged...